| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 教育傳播與科技研究所 === 97 === On January 2008, The British journal, The Economist, predicted that mobile phones will replace many items in our daily lives; items such as keys, wallets, and tickets. Mobile phone is as magical as a magic wand with unlimited functionality. When mobile phone evolved into a “must” in our daily lives, it will endow itself an educational function and make the instruction mode of mobile learning a possibility, fulfilling the vision: technology always comes from human.
According to statistics, more and more teenagers rely on short messages to communicate with their friends. Therefore, the research investigated the possibility of using instructional media to conduct lessons through short message’s application, by delivering the content of instruction to students’ mobile phones. The prevailing Chinese four-character idioms were chosen as the instructional materials.
The study was a qualitative research and there were ten junior high students as participants. The methods of collecting data were in-depth interview, focus group interview, learning log for the Chinese four-character idioms, learning blog for the Chinese four-character idioms, researcher’s reflection diary, and paper-based test. The Descriptive Statistics and t-test were used in order to keep the data in a variety.
There were five research results. First, on the aspect of the strategy of instructional design, it was adequate adopting Keller’s ARCS motivation model and Bloom’s theory of mastery learning as the strategy of instructional design through the short messages on mobile phone.
Second, as for experiences of using a mobile phone, the average year of using mobile phone among the ten eighth grade students was three and half years. Eight out of ten students had never heard of using mobile phone as a learning tool.
Third, on the behavior of using short messages on mobile phone, on an average, these eighth grade students sent four and received six messages in a day to and from their classmates. The main purpose for their texting was to chat. Girls send messages more often than boys.
Fourth, on the effectiveness of learning by mobile phone’s SMS, the average of pre-test score was 49.8 points. And the average post-test score was 79.6 points. In addition, students could concretely express the meaning of the Chinese four-character idioms that they had learned during the research, which revealed a good result of learning.
Fifth, as for the learning satisfaction, it was high on instructional content, design, media, and creativity, but low on learning navigation and tracking.
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