SMARTPHONES IN HIGHER EDUCATION CLASSROOMS: MOTIVATIONS, RULES, AND CONSEQUENCES
The growth in the use of smartphones is remarkable and reaches countless spheres ofsocial life, one of them being the university. Nagumo (2014) and Selwyn (2014) highlight that there arefew researches focused on understanding how technological devices like cellphones are used in teachinginstitutions...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) |
| Repositorio: | Educação em Revista |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.ufmg.br:article/38073 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/edrevista/article/view/38073 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Smartphones Ensino Superior regras consequências motivação Higher Education rules consequences motivation Enseñanza Superior reglas consecuencias motivación |
| Sumario: | The growth in the use of smartphones is remarkable and reaches countless spheres ofsocial life, one of them being the university. Nagumo (2014) and Selwyn (2014) highlight that there arefew researches focused on understanding how technological devices like cellphones are used in teachinginstitutions; in addition to that, the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS) has recently implemented theinternational Internet network eduroam. In this context, this research aims to discover motivations tothe use of smartphones by the students of the Departments of Vernacular Language (DLEV) and ModernLanguages (DLES), as well as to analyze possible rules and consequences of using smartphones duringclasses at UFS. The methodology is qualitative - analytical-interpretative – and follows the proceduresFreeman (1998) proposes, which include naming, grouping, finding relationship, and displaying. Thisresearch’s results and conclusions indicate that most students who participated in the research usesmartphones to meet academic and entertainment aims. The rules and consequences in the classroom,however, diminish the use of the devices for being related to punishments. Similarly, eduroamdiscourages the use of smartphones because it presents barriers to the access of Internet. |
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