Abstract
<p> </p><p>The goal of this research is to investigate schools’ policy of using a mobile phone at schools from the perspective of secondary school students in Indonesia. It happens to be a long debate involving educators in Indonesia on whether or not the use of smartphone can be allowed in schools. So far, all we hear is the perspectives of teachers and schools’ administrators regarding the ban but never from the students, even though the students are the subject of these debates. This research is conducted in order to investigate, as well as to give the opportunity for students’ to voice their opinion, point of views, and perspectives toward the issue of banning smartphone use at schools. The data of this research was collected through online survey aimed at secondary schools’ students in Gorontalo, Indonesia. There are 250 students from 5 high schools have responded to the online surveys. The result shows that even though students mostly believe that the use of smartphone should be integrated into teaching and learning process, an appropriate policy of using it at school should be designed in order to get rid of the negative impact cause by it, and to maximize the use of it as a sophisticated resource to help students learn better at school.</p>
Highlights
Since the beginning of its existence, smartphone has brought many advantages in human’s life.The use of it has penetrated all aspects of life including education
The report from the statistic portal shows that the total number of mobile phone users worldwide from 2013 to 2019 shows a significant increase of the mobile phone users from only 4.05 billion in 2013 to 4.77 billion in 2017, and it is predicted that the number will climb to 5.07 billion users in 2019 (Statista, 2017 as cited in Machmud & Abdulah, 2017)
Studies have suggested that the use of mobile phone in teaching and learning process have brought significant benefit to teachers and students, especially in teaching English as a foreign language skill
Summary
Since the beginning of its existence, smartphone has brought many advantages in human’s life. The use of it has penetrated all aspects of life including education. Studies have suggested that the use of mobile phone in teaching and learning process have brought significant benefit to teachers and students, especially in teaching English as a foreign language skill (Machmud & Abdulah, 2017; Baliu & Machmud, 2017; Alzu'bi & Sabha, 2013; Huang & Sun, 2010; and Machmud, JAH (2018), Vol 07, No 03: 33-40. A previous study study shows that students have positive perceptions towards the use of smartphone, especially the use of mobile phones’ applications to learn English (Weng & Chen, 2015). Pornography content access, and distractions from lessons are some problems that occurs to be the main concerns that lead to the ban of smartphone use at schools
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