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INSTRUCTIONAL TOOL
Throughout much of the world, the cellular phone has become an integral
communications tool. E-mailing and instant messaging (IM) on cell phones and
accessible and used almost everywhere. In most schools, using of cell-phones during
class hours are strictly prohibited of education policies and procedures. Student’s use of
with the work of teaching and learning. In an era when many parents want constant
access to their children and students live in a digital social milieu, prohibition of cellphones
with technology and finding that the miniature computers many students carry in their
According to (Gikas & Grant 2013), students are driving the adoption of mobile
education, and 67% of surveyed students believe mobile devices are important to their
academic success and use their devices for academic activities. The increased ubiquity
of mobile computing devices on college campuses has the potential to create new options
for higher education students and the exploration of mobility and social media as an
instructional strategy. Furthermore, Winters (2007), Sharples et al. (2007), Traxler (2007,
2010), Cook, Pachler, and Bradley (2008), and Pachler, Bachmeir, and Cook (2010)
identified mobile learning as both formal and informal. Formal learning, by design, is
where learners are engaging with materials developed by a teacher to be used during a
On the other hand, using mobile phone as an instructional tool during class hours
is not actually implemented by all teachers in the Philippines because students will no
longer listen in actual classroom discussion. They will just play, take pictures, surf the
In order for this problem to be addressed, the researcher would like to determine
the perception of the students and parents towards the use of mobile phone as an
instructional tool.
This study aims to determine the students and parents perceptions on the use of
mobile phone as an instructional tool. Specifically this study also determines the;
1. What are the positive and negative perceptions of the students on the use of
2. What are the positive and negative perceptions of parents on the use of cell
Students- for them to be aware that using mobile phone in the classroom is
Teachers- for them to have new strategy in teaching using the mobile phone in
Parents- for them to guide and monitor their students in school while studying and