The 'obvious' stuff: exploring the mundane realities of students' digital technology use in school

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2020-06-30 DOI:10.1344/der.2020.37.1-14

N. Selwyn, Selena Nemorin, Scott Bulfin, N. Johnson

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Abstract

This paper explores the ways in which students perceive digital technology as being helpful and/or useful to their schooling. Drawing upon survey data from students (n=1174) across three Australian high schools, the paper highlights seventeen distinct digital ‘benefits’ in domains such as information seeking, writing and composition, accessing prescribed work, scheduling and managing study tasks. While these data confirm the centrality of such technologies to students’ experiences of school, they also suggest that digital technology is not substantially changing or ‘transforming’ the nature of schools and schooling per se. Instead, students were most likely to associate digital technologies with managing the logistics of individual study and engaging with school work in distinctly teacher-led linear and passive ways. As such, it is concluded that educationalists need to temper enthusiasms for what might be achieved through digital technologies, and instead develop better understandings of the realities of students’ instrumentally-driven uses of digital technology.

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“显而易见”的东西:探索学生在学校使用数字技术的平凡现实

本文探讨了学生认为数字技术对他们的学业有帮助和/或有用的方式。根据对澳大利亚三所高中学生(n=1174)的调查数据，该论文强调了17个不同的数字“好处”，如信息搜索、写作和作文、访问规定的工作、安排和管理学习任务。虽然这些数据证实了这些技术对学生的学校体验的中心地位，但它们也表明，数字技术并没有实质性地改变或“转变”学校和学校教育本身的性质。相反，学生们最有可能将数字技术与管理个人学习的后勤工作联系起来，并以明显由教师主导的线性和被动方式参与学校作业。因此，得出的结论是，教育工作者需要缓和对数字技术可能实现的目标的热情，而不是更好地理解学生使用数字技术的工具驱动的现实。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.