The Role of Teachers in Guiding Students to Use Smart Phones in their Learning Process from Teachers’ Viewpoint

The Role of Teachers in Guiding Students to Use Smart Phones in their Learning Process from Teachers' Viewpoint

Suleiman Mohammad Abu Safiyah

The Ministry of Education

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       Received  6/6/2021                                                  Accepted  17/10/2021

https://doi.org/10.34028/ijqa/4/2/178 

Abstract:

The study aims to identify the role of teachers in guiding students to use smart phones in their learning process, where the researcher used the descriptive analytical approach, and the questionnaire consists of (25) paragraphs as a tool for collecting study data after verifying its validity and reliability, while the sample was chosen by the researcher from his community consisting of (2401) teachers using the stratified random method, which consisted of (360) teachers, and the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) program was used to analyze the data. The results of the study show that there was a role for teachers in directing public secondary school students affiliated to the Rusifa District to use smart phones in their learning process came in a medium degree, and an arithmetic mean of (3.37). The results also show that there were no statistically significant differences at the significance level (α ≥ 0.05) between the responses of the sample members about the role of teachers in directing public secondary school students affiliated to the Rusifa District to use smart phones in their learning process according to the study variables: Gender, Academic Qualification, and Number of Years of Experience. Based on the results, the researcher recommends:the need for school officials to realize this dangerous phenomenon and work to confront it by giving students homework urging them to use their smart devices for doing it, and guiding and educating teachers and students on the optimal use of mobile phones in the learning process.

Keywords: Role of the Teacher, Smart Phones, Learning Process.

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