Bring Your Own Device To The Classroom: Uses Of The Mobile Phone For The University Training

Abstract

The advancement of technologies has conditioned our social behavior, specifically the introduction of mobilephones has changed the way we relate to people and how we work in our day to day. These technological social changes have been introduced in education with more incidence in universities, as the first agent of change in education. This paper analyses the use of mobile phones by university students of the Primary Education degree for their academic education. A quantitative methodology has been used with a descriptive character, using as an instrument of data collection an ad hoc questionnaire based on a Likert scale. Among the results, it is found that although the use of mobile phones a priori has a leisure character, it is also used as a resource for accessing contents and activities in university academic training. Finally, the educational conception of the students and the fact of bringing your own device to the classroom conditions the teaching dynamics, which from methodologies such as mobile learning can influence the improvement of the teaching-learning process of the students.