Report on Smart Phone Uses in Secondary Education

Nowadays, both private and public institutions are being penetrated by smartphone technology and nevertheless, the emerging smartphone technology is becoming an effective tool for teaching, learning and being experienced for secondary level students. The use of mobile phones in secondary education has pushed the education standard toward a tremendous boost in terms of standard and quality. In this report, there would be detailed discussion on the use of mobile phones in the secondary education.  Smartphone technology can better engage students in learning experiences and help them improve their performances. The mobile phone features and specifications add a significant dimension to activities of learning that are supported to secondary educational environment as well as learners. In this paper, mobile technology integration with teaching practices at the secondary education level are presented in brief and use to mobile phone technology at the secondary level is discussed in detail.

Explanation of Smart Phone Uses in Secondary Education

No one can live without using a mobile phone. Proper researches are being held that explains how much the use of mobile can be more effective and beneficial for the users. In the educational field, all information and data can be available on mobile, and with this student can maintain their work by connecting their teachers and have an online discussion with the friends related to assignments. So, it is the most important technology at present that provides all the facilities to the students to fulfil their educational requirement. Now we are going to talk about the usage of mobile phones in the secondary schools.

The usage of mobile phones for education purpose is increasing exponentially. For students, all the assignments and notes are available on internet and teachers will be sharing their notes on the internet, it can also help the students, and they only carry a smartphone instead of many books and notes.

This may be a good thing to some extent; it will change the habit of students related to book reading because the book reading habit is very important and must be developed in the students and now the students can use the digital books in their phones and read them anytime, anywhere they want. But in developing countries, these approaches and innovative educational technologies are not practiced widely.

This would increase the engagement and student achievement as well as revolutionize instruction with mobile learning and integrating cell phone technologies such as Netbooks, i Pads, i Pods, e-readers and even PDAs. It is very important to investigate the goal related to the adaptable effects of mobile phone that are going to implement in the education system for improving the learning and the teaching. Determine the possible challenges related to the usage of mobile phone technologies and show the positive side of mobile usage and many countries are going to shift to this technology by implementing this in their schools for the better learning of students. According to the research conduct by Tiro Mokgoare, (2012), it is reviewed that there is a need to improve the usage of mobile technology to improve the overall learning and teaching skills in a most effective manner. At secondary school, students are going to reach that age where they have their mobile phones, and without any special facilitation, they are in a good position to use them. In many countries, mobile learning technology is going to be piloted.

The rule that schools can use mobile phones to students require time and a proper investigation because everything has two sides positive and negative. So, to consider its negative effects, proper research must be taken to determine the usage of mobile phones in the schools. Teacher research on the group of students and determine how their learning and capability we're going to increase with the using of mobile phone in schools and how their learning effect in a negative way. According to the research conduct by Katarzyna, (2017), it is reviewed that the teachers explain that the learning of students going to increase as they adopt new and latest technologies for their regular usage. Basically the usage of mobile phones and computers give more knowledge and learning skills to students as they perform in the most effective manner when they learn how to use new and innovative technologies and with this so it's up to the knowledge and skills related to students and how they use this technology or facility to obtain more and more knowledge.

According to the research conduct by UDOH  (2015), it is reviewed that teachers also said that the usage of mobile phones are very helpful for students as they get maximum knowledge in the class duration as guided by the teacher and then they search more and more knowledge and skills by using internet under the instruction of teacher, so they didn't search out different books to get material related to their studies. Different subjects have different requirements like math need complicated calculation, and by using mobile phones, most complicated data can be found out in a few seconds and use by the students. Science is the subject that requires many technical studies according to human being and different living organisms so mobile help students in this regard that they search out all the relevant material in their class, so they get better discussion and knowledge related to that topic.

According to the research conduct by it is reviewed that Same as chemistry; it also requires practice and discussion of the experiment by different scientist that provide a better understanding to student related to their subject and all this stuff easily available to students during their class by the usage of mobile phone. So, there are many subjects that need further discussions and mobile phone to help them to get new and informative material regarding their knowledge. From occasional use of computers, an opportunity provided by the mobile technology for brings a fundamental change in the education system especially related to classrooms that enhance the standard of classrooms and more than this.

According to Russell, (2018), it is reviewed that Students used different features very much like a camera to take photos of the notes, calendar and alarms. This also said by a student that these devices are very helpful in remembering different things and perform very well in completing their homework. Study shows that for the classroom, the mobile is a good learning tool for the study. Many students feel that after using such devices that can explore the actual benefits of education. Both at home and school, they can use its many features and find out a new and creative way to employ these features and improve the presentation of their schoolwork. But there are some students who consider that the usage of mobile in school is a risk for the students

According to the research conduct by Hartline-Young, (2008), it is reviewed that there are still some students who support the ban of mobile phones in the school as they consider that mobile show negative effects on the study of students and their focus going to distract. But many students also want to use mobile phones during their school [4],. It is the responsibility of the school management to make such an effective policy for the usage of mobile phone in school and present a clear and strict policy for the usage of mobile phones in the classroom. It also tells the limitations as well so the mobile phone integration problem going to be eliminated by the support of school management. In determining the policy, the stakeholders consider the benefits and barriers carefully for the students.

According to the research conduct by Humanize, Admiral, Wanamaker, & Dam, (2009), it is reviewed that this is all the thoughts of students, and now we consider what the teachers think related to that topic. Teachers also want to use mobile phones to keep their data maintain like documents the student work and take attendance on mobile. They also used a web-based software application that provides test, quizzes, assignments and photographs for the students related to their subject and enhances their knowledge and skills. Every student data must be kept by teachers, and they also conduct parent's teacher meeting and provide all the information related to their child in one click. Teachers may conduct their class at any place that provides easy to them to keep there all data in their hands. The proper need of exploration and personal research must be required to adopting the technique of mobile devices during the class of in school and show the only positive aspect of the devices but it also the responsibility of school management to adopt such effective and suitable policies that help students but in a secure way.

As this technology has negative effects in huge quantity with the positive effects, so proper care and attention must be required while using such technology. The actual usage of mobile devices in the class give many benefits like transferring file between school and home, using GASP to  identify location, email system of the school going to connect, foreign language podcasts understanding and keep in record, creating short narrative movies, accessing revision sites on internet, for further learning keep record of teacher poem reading, connected remotely to school learning platform, synchronizing calendar or timetable and setting reminder, receiving SIMS and email reminder from teachers, between group members delivering the project material, photographing text for future review, taking pictures of the e-portfolios design models , also capture  the using items and its final decision of experiment for analyzing and timing experiment with stopwatch.

According to the research conduct by Val, Rash id, & Elder, (2010), it is reviewed that, we consider that the usage of mobile technology in the school is very effective and helpful for the students, but we also must consider its negative effects. So, it's the main role of school and its management about how they provide better opportunities and facilities to a student to enhance their skills and knowledge in the most effective manner. For this school management has to develop proper culture that promote the usage of mobile devices in classrooms and also guide the parents about this policy, for bringing new and positive change the teachers must support the school culture and provide better guidance to all their students related to their new technology and guide them on how to use this for improving their study.

Teachers also provide students with different curriculum activities that belong to enhancing their knowledge and by using mobile devices to learn and teach them a new and innovative way of creation and explore their projects in a most effective manner. Teachers are going to adopt professional development during their knowledge and learning and use in teaching, so they deliver advance and improved learning techniques to students. The main thing which is considered the most keenly is the way with which these technologies have been implemented. The usage of mobile also common in the schools that support students to bring their mobile phones and do their all tasks related to study on mobile.

According to the research conduct by UDOH, (2015), it is reviewed that It may lead to great opportunities in teaching and learning that the implementation of mobile learning through mobile phones. But in developing countries, these approaches and innovative educational technologies are not practiced widely. The main issue arises by the various report is that it should mobile phones also have a positive side and to accommodate the usage and implementation of the mobile phones technologies in school happen by development and policy changes through enhancement. A mobile phone can carry the tremendous potential to assist the learning of people every whereas considering that the mobile phones are the most interactive information and communication technology that may be used to deliver and improve the education.

It is going to be a controversial topic of debate by teachers and parents, the usage of mobile phones in the school by students. One thought of parents explains the usage of mobile phones is due to security purposes as they are kept in touch with their parents at every time.  These parents are supporting the usage of mobile phones in the students, and they give them smartphones for usage. The thought of such parents is going to advance, and they ignore that how the usage of mobile phone in the excess period will distract their mentality and, they might face many problems due to the usage of mobile phones. But on the other side, there are also such parents who didn't support the usage of mobile phones and explain that mobile phones may use for undesired purposes, and this will disrupt messages to others, playing games, taking photographs and also use as cheating in the tests. Students waste their mist of time in a distracted way as using mobile phones, and they didn't get important information from the lectures. Parents also complain that by using mobile phones, their children went far from them and didn't want to spend time with us.

There are many schools that implement the policies that during school hours, restrict students from the usage of mobile phones to avoid the distraction because of mobile phones. With this, some use jamming devices in their location, but this would be considered as illegal and not allow using at every place. It's the responsibility of the school management to use such software that controls and restrict the usage of mobile phones of a student during school hours to minimize the distraction and going to avoid for the unproductive usage. This is also considered by many types of research that students are going to use face book or Google or Twitter instead of using in a constructive manner. They were only watching or searching entertainment items for the students and only wasting their time. Their focus on the lecture of class also disturbed, and they didn't obtain complete knowledge and at the end didn't show good results. So, the chances of misuse of mobile phones are high as compare to informative usage of it. Many dangerous results can be seen due to dysfunctional use of mobile phones.

The using mobile phone is going to be an addiction in the male and female students in secondary school. For taking research from different schools, a proper questioner is going to be prepared that know the thoughts and point of view of students and teachers related to the addiction of mobile phones and its positive usage. This will help them to explore a new idea and share their feeling on this issue. It is seen that many female students are willing to use mobile phones instead of male students. They only concern with the positive and informative usage of mobile phones, and with this, they support the usage of mobile phones in secondary school. This is a very main and hot topic among students and parents. As many problems are going to arise from few years due to access usage of mobile phones in the students but at that time, they only use mobile in their home places, and schools are not allowing them to bring their phones to school or any other purposes. But now the usage in school also creates a problem for them as they also misuse mobile phones in schools and appear many adverse effects due to usage in school.

It is not immune to this dilemma that the use of mobile phones in the education sector. From developed through developing to underdeveloped countries the debate on the usage of mobile phones in the class is going to on or not with the thoughts and views of many experts related to the education field and positive and adverse views also appear. In the education sector, the usage of mobile phones shows much harm effects more than the good because of misapplication and misuse of the device among students. Many educators and students are going to fill to use the mobile phone effectively during school hours and utilize them beneficially. Many education ministers offer the ban or seem to ban policies among many students for the usage of mobile in the school hours and show how the performance of students going to improve after implementing the ban policies. But our main concern is to show how the usage of mobile phones show positive effects in the students and their education by using m learning, adopt and develop educational technologies and m-consulting for the in-depth exploration and pilot studies and with this also bright future and deserves research attention.

For those who have mobile and cannot attend the physical learning institute, the access to m learning going to increase. It enables the learners to attention to studies according to their capacities like cost, time, mobility, and so on as mobile learning makes education most accessible. Mobile learning enables the learning at all-time according to your requirement like after shift, at home or on the go, so mobile technology is portable that means that mobile learning has no boundary. Mobile learning also accessible in all those situations where the learner has cost issues in their education. Teachers also want to use mobile phones to keep their data maintain like documents the student work and take attendance on mobile. For this, the school management has to develop a proper culture that promotes the usage of mobile devices in classrooms and also guide the parents about this policy. These parents are supporting the usage of mobile phones in the students, and they give them smart phones for usage. Students waste their mist of time in a distracted way as using the mobile phones, and they didn't get important information from the lectures — mobile learning present great learning in all those areas where environmental and infrastructure challenges hinder other learning modalities. In developing countries, according to cost-benefit Mobile learning consider as of great opportunity and student my access knowledge and skills by using this advanced technology. It enhances the effectiveness and efficiency of the education system and counselling administration policy and significantly broadens the approach to consulting material and quality education by increasing flexibility and decreasing the cost. In keeping with new trends in communication technology, the new learning is personalized, lifelong, ubiquitous, collaborative, situated and learner-center. As the usage of mobile technology also going to increase that is durable, ubiquitous, networked, user center and use personally. For personalized learning, mobile phones are designed that response in diversity and difference in the path of learning. Many facilities also provided for learners who are going to obtain mobile learning at every place or at any time. For authentic learning the mobile learning also facilitation designs that involve the projects of relevance and interest of learner and target the real-world problems. It also provides a basis for the new learning through interconnection and integration as by providing efficient and inventive methods that mobile can suppose facilitate the knowledge center learning so the learner can understand the learning in depth instead of only memorizing the topic and understand a large amount of information in a most effective manner. Mobile phones have great potential to provide the learning facilities beyond the classroom and give knowledge of learners in huge amount. The significant impact on learning through the usage of mobile phones are enhancing the overall learning experience, the support provided and subject clarified and share ideas related to information.

Conclusion on Smart Phone Uses in Secondary Education

Summing up the discussion about the use of a mobile phone in secondary education it can be said that the usage of mobile phones is very common and very important in the current period. But among students of secondary school need proper attention and consider what the needs of students that they want to use mobile phones, especially in the schools are. It has many adverse effects with the hugely positive effects that discuss earlier and present how the mobile learning and its usage enhance the learning, knowledge and skills of the students in the most effective way. The schools must make such policy according to the requirement of learning and for the betterment of the students that the usage of mobile phones is allowed in the schools or not and consider whether the usage of mobile affect the learning and their performance or not. Because there are many adverse effects on the positive effects, so proper guidance and instruction must be provided to students before using mobile phones in school and at homes. Smartphone technology can better engage students in learning experiences and help them improve their performances. Their focus on the lecture of class also disturbed, and they didn't obtain complete knowledge and at the end didn't show good results.  In the education sector, the usage of mobile phones shows much harm effects more than the good because of misapplication and misuse of the device among students.  For those who have mobile and cannot attend the physical learning institute, the access to m learning going to increase. Mobile learning also accessible in all those situations where the learner has cost issues in their education. It also provides a basis for the new learning through interconnection and integration as by providing efficient and inventive methods.

References of Smart Phone Uses in Secondary Education

This part is of 12 marks.

Introduction is really simple and general with no specific justification, tell me why smart phone has penetrated, what are the things that we can utilize etc.

Explanation part is really general, lack of good vocab and structuring of sentence is poor. You must name few applications used for educational purpose. Justifications should be solid.

What are those technologies that are being used in developing countries and under developed countries?

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Use of scholarly articles:

You can see the importance of references, it has specifically 12 marks just for referencing.

These references that you have used are mostly general, they are not literature or published papers. Most of them have to be Published articles or papers.

Overall formatting and quality of paper:

Overall formatting is satisfactory but could have done a lot better. Quality of paper is not satisfactory, it should be improved.

Every part has equal marks I:e 12, so according to your paper you have to do a lot better than this. You can easily score good marks in part1,4 &5. But for other parts you have to do a lot better than this.

 Assignment task and format:

This assignment requires you to use an essay format to discuss a topic in relation to new technologies and education and training. In your discussion, you should draw on academic literature to present a considered and balanced view that reflects the complexity of the issues involved. You should also draw on your own experiences and professional observations.

The academic literature available on educational technology is vast and diverse. You should develop a topic to focus your position paper. You may choose to focus on a particular field of practice that interests you (e.g., primary school education, secondary education, higher education, work-based training, informal learning), and possibly even on a particular subject/discipline/area of skill (e.g., maths education, music education, work place safety), or type of technology (e.g., tablets, social media, LMS). For example: a topic might be “early years literacy education with iPads” or “digital tools in secondary music education” or “online tools for language learning” or any other topic that interests you and will serve to focus your inquiry and argument. It is recommended that you check with your lecturer or Unit Chair to ensure that your topic is appropriate for the assignment.

It is expected that in this assignment you will demonstrate that you have engaged with academic literature (both the set readings and other scholarly sources you have identified that relate to your topic). You are expected to demonstrate skills in conventions for drawing on the ideas and words of others, via appropriate citation and referencing practices. Resources to help you with this assignment include:

Assessment Criteria:

Your ability to explain why the topic is important in contemporary times, with reference to academic literature on the needs and contexts of contemporary learners. (12/60 marks)

Your ability to express a balanced viewpoint on the three issues relating to your topic, by discussing the complexities involved. Complexities might arise due to the diverse views and stakeholders involved or the different findings/arguments of different studies/papers. You should consider both the concordances and constraints/risks associated with the use of new technologies, and areas of contention/disagreement. (12/60 marks)

Your ability to relate the issues to your own professional setting or to your own experiences of teaching and learning. (12/60 marks)

Effective use of scholarly literature to support your discussion of the issues. (12/60 marks)

The overall quality of the paper, including structure, writing and the use of appropriate referencing style and formatting.  (12/60 marks)

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