Should You Go for Smartphones at School?

1. https://pixabay.com/de/eule-vogel-federn-uhu-tiere-3340957/ Should You Go for Smartphones at School? Martin Ebner Walther Nagler Maria Grandl Maria Haas Martin Schön

2. https://pixabay.com/de/eule-vogel-federn-uhu-tiere-3340957/ General Research Questions: Which trends can be seen towards: •  Ownership of technological devices •  Communication behavior •  Usage of e-learning platforms (secondary school level) •  Usage of online applications for learning and private purposes

3. https://pixabay.com/de/eule-vogel-federn-uhu-tiere-3340957/ Study over 11 years (n=8667): Term 2007/2008 n=578 Term 2008/2009 n=821 Term 2009/2010 n=757 Term 2010/2011 n=702 Term 2011/2012 n=632 Term 2012/2013 n=715 Term 2013/2014 n=789 Term 2014/2015 n=968 Term 2015/2016 n=889 Term 2016/2017 n=944 Term 2017/2018 n=872

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10. https://pixabay.com/de/eule-vogel-federn-uhu-tiere-3340957/ Special Focus On: IT-Competences at Secondary School Level https://pixabay.com/de/dart-dartscheibe-bull-s-eye-spiel-102919/

11. https://pixabay.com/de/eule-vogel-federn-uhu-tiere-3340957/ Does an “IT-friendly” environment and computer science lessons at secondary school level: • promotes IT and coding skills? • has effects on the use of social media applications? Should computer science lessons at secondary school level be expanded? How the Use of Modern Media in Class Influences IT-Competences https://pixabay.com/de/dart-dartscheibe-bull-s-eye-spiel-102919/

12. https://pixabay.com/de/eule-vogel-federn-uhu-tiere-3340957/ In Austria all computer science lessons are obligatory covered by 2 hours per week at the 9th grade only Students describing lessons learned •  boring •  too short •  touch typing •  Microsoft Status quo in Austria https://pixabay.com/de/dart-dartscheibe-bull-s-eye-spiel-102919/

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16. https://pixabay.com/de/eule-vogel-federn-uhu-tiere-3340957/ https://pixabay.com/de/dart-dartscheibe-bull-s-eye-spiel-102919/ Discussion and Conclusion •  statistical connection between IT-promoting activities at schools and later IT skills is given •  no connection between a proper computer science education and an increase of social media usage Schools that are principally open minded towards the usage of IT and smartphones, that provide a good infrastructure, and that especially have coding skills integrated in their lessons, constantly help raising and strengthening IT competence of their students.

17. https://pixabay.com/de/eule-vogel-federn-uhu-tiere-3340957/ Graz University of Technology Martin Ebner martin.ebner@tugraz.at http://elearningblog.tugraz.at http://elearning.tugraz.at Educational Technology