The use of mobile phones in the public education system in El Salvador: Educational Resource or educational distraction?
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educational technology, educational innovations, teaching methodsAbstract
This article represents the theoretical systematization of the study entitled The use of mobile phones in the public education system: Educational Resource or teaching resource distractor? This article allows the pedagogical approach on the impact that the use of these devices in Salvadoran educational system contexts. The study was conducted in 69 educational institutions of the 14 departments of El Salvador, thereby generating an analytical framework in which the movile appears to occupy the role of great distractor of teaching and learning. The study was conducted from 6 to 23 May 2014, at which time a thousand 384 junior and high school students and 200 high school teachers from across the country were surveyed.
The study is a relationship in which the dichotomy of cell phone use in Salvadoran schools, can assess whether this technological artifact is actually a teaching resource for educational use or a mere distraction that reveals several tensions or problems relationship between teachers and students because of the appearance of this device; all within the framework of educational postmodernism, in which the cell phone takes a leading role in the Salvadoran classrooms.
Realidad y Reflexión Año 14, N° 40, 2014
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