Diversity in Students' Use of Mobile Devices in Learning Science and Mathematics

• In Event: Poster Session 12
  In Poster Session: Explorations at the Intersection of Technology and Learning

Abstract

We investigated how often mobile devices were used in learning science and mathematics. A survey of 3521 students from 6th and 9th grade evaluated use of mobile devices in learning in three competence areas: information, communication and content creation. Five groups of students were distinguished: digital natives, information students, communicating information students, content creation students, and nonusers. Among these five groups can be differentiated 11 sub-groups and the profiles of these groups help to design interventions to support use of mobile devices in learning. Our results also showed that the distribution of boys and girls as well as 6th and 9th grade students vary in different groups. This is important information for designing learning scenarios.

Authors

• Margus Pedaste, University of Tartu

• Olev Must, University of Tartu

• Äli Leijen, University of Tartu

• Mario Mäeots, University of Tartu

• Leo Aleksander Siiman, University of Tartu

• Külli Kori, University of Tartu

• Liina Adov, University of Tartu

• Peter R. Simons, University of Utrecht