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What Students Do While You Are Teaching – Computer and Smartphone Use in Class and Its Implication on Learning

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The presence of mobile devices (e.g., smartphones, tablets and computers) in the classroom gives students the possibility of doing off-task activities during lectures. The purpose of this mixed-method field study was to learn more about students’ behaviors, reasons, and opinions regarding such activities and their consequences on learning. This study is one of few to take a holistic view on this topic by taking the use of all technical devices in class into account and assessing its consequences on learning objectively. This is important to gain a full picture concerning the consequences of off-task activities in class. Right after a lecture, bachelor students (N = 125) answered a survey containing questions on their usage of mobile devices during this last class. Furthermore, they took a test on the content of that lecture. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of data revealed that students spent an average of more than 19% of their time using a digital device for non-class purposes. Interestingly, this was not significantly linked with learning, although many students reported being aware of this behavior’s potential negative consequences. But there was a significant negative link between the number of received notifications and learning. These results suggest that external interruptions have a stronger negative effect than internal interruptions, allowing us to make better recommendations on how to use electronic devices in the classroom.
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hal-04196874 , version 1 (05-09-2023)

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Carli Ochs, Andreas Sonderegger. What Students Do While You Are Teaching – Computer and Smartphone Use in Class and Its Implication on Learning. 18th IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT), Aug 2021, Bari, Italy. pp.501-520, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-85616-8_29⟩. ⟨hal-04196874⟩
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