Generation Z: Growing and Learning with Mobile [INFOGRAPHIC]

Mobile technology is huge – smartphones, tablets, laptops, Chromebooks – and provides some great learning opportunities. itslearning has gathered statistics from sources like the “Harvard Gazette,” Ambient Insight, and PBS regarding the effect of mobile devices on the education of Generation Z, revealing that incorporating middle school students’ mobile habits into classroom instruction can have a profoundly positive influence on their learning. Among the findings are, the small screens of mobile phones allow dyslexic students to read faster without sacrificing comprehension, standardized test scores are higher in courses where students use mobile devices than in offline classrooms, and that of the middle school students using mobile devices, 78 percent use the devices for checking grades, 69 percent use them for taking notes and 64 percent for writing papers.

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