SMARTPHONES IN HIGHER EDUCATION CLASSROOMS: MOTIVATIONS, RULES, AND CONSEQUENCES
Keywords:
Smartphones, Higher Education, rules, consequences, motivationAbstract
The growth in the use of smartphones is remarkable and reaches countless spheres of
social life, one of them being the university. Nagumo (2014) and Selwyn (2014) highlight that there are
few researches focused on understanding how technological devices like cellphones are used in teaching
institutions; in addition to that, the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS) has recently implemented the
international Internet network eduroam. In this context, this research aims to discover motivations to
the use of smartphones by the students of the Departments of Vernacular Language (DLEV) and Modern
Languages (DLES), as well as to analyze possible rules and consequences of using smartphones during
classes at UFS. The methodology is qualitative - analytical-interpretative – and follows the procedures
Freeman (1998) proposes, which include naming, grouping, finding relationship, and displaying. This
research’s results and conclusions indicate that most students who participated in the research use
smartphones to meet academic and entertainment aims. The rules and consequences in the classroom,
however, diminish the use of the devices for being related to punishments. Similarly, eduroam
discourages the use of smartphones because it presents barriers to the access of Internet.
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