“Touch Your Lessons!” Smartphone-based science learning, a solution for deprived areas

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Mohammad Davoud Talebzadeh
Hossein Kasiri
Jundi-Shapur University of Technology, Dezful, Iran
10.22034/jcse.2025.182109
Abstract
Due to computer invention, the distance learning, lifelong learning, and indirect education, all converted to the electronic
education and learning. With the advent of smartphones and tablets, direct and indirect education especially mobile learning step towards the use of smartphones. This paper describes how an “Android smartphone” can be replaced with many digital devices, even computers. It has been investigated the main advantages of the smartphone usages in education, and listed their unique characteristics for studying and realizing difficult lessons like mathematics and physics.
We have introduced and emphasized some of the applications needed for every successful teacher. Such applications can
provide virtual laboratories for experimental sessions when real ones are not accessible, especially in deprived areas. Our study showed that compared to the control group, the smartphone-learned group scored higher. It can be concluded that the level of understanding physics and mathematics concepts were improved using such android applications.

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