Presentation at Ed-Media + Innovate Learning Conference, Amsterdam, June 2018

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Should You Go for
Smartphones at School?
Martin Ebner
Walther Nagler
Maria Grandl
Maria Haas
Martin Schön

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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

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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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Special Focus On:
IT-Competences
at Secondary
School Level
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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
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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
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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.

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Graz University of Technology
Martin Ebner
martin.ebner@tugraz.at
http://elearningblog.tugraz.at
http://elearning.tugraz.at
Educational Technology