Educación (Oct 2016)

The use of the smartphone as a tool for the search of information in the undergraduate students of Education of a Metropolitan Lima’s university

  • Carlos Saussure Figueroa Portilla

DOI
https://doi.org/10.18800/educacion.201602.002
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 49
pp. 29 – 44

Abstract

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The mobile devices like the tablet and the smartphone, especially this latter, for its portability and easy access to internet, has allowed its use to a massive public, within which are the university students. In this article are shown the results of a quantitative research about how is done the information search through the educational use of the smartphone by the incoming students of the 2015-I cycle of the education faculty in a Metropolitan Lima’s university, who all of them own a smartphone.

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