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An Empirical Study Investigating Instant Messaging as an Enabling Tool for ...: EBSCOhost - 7 views

  • This paper describes an empirical study on postgraduate students in a local university to investigate whether instant messaging (IM) tools are used as enabler tools for learning
  • undertook a survey of 104 postgraduate students.
  • findings indicated that external factors
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  • such as technology utility, network externality, media influences, self-efficacy and affection have a significant effect on perceived usefulness (PU)
  • perceived ease of use (PEOU)
  • PEOU has significant influence on the students' acceptance of IM tools as enabler for learning
  • Overall, the findings suggested students' perceptions of IM tools are easy to use and useful in the context of learning.
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Texting Improving Literacy? | The Principal of Change - 3 views

  • Texting and it’s impact on reading and writing “It turns out that the best texters, are the best spellers.” “The more you text, the better your literacy scores.” “The earlier you get your mobile phone, the better your literacy scores.” “What is texting?  Texting is writing and reading.” “The more practice you get in writing and reading, the better writer and reader you will be.” One of the additional things he discussed in this talk was that we often say, “These kids do not read,” but he quickly dismisses this as a fallacy.  In fact, Crystal goes further to say that kids that text read more than what we did as children because they have more access to writing.  Simply put, they do not read and write the same things that we did.  Looking at my own situation, I have actually read more “books” in the last little while than I ever have, as I carry around a huge book collection all the time on my iPhone and/or iPad.  The ease of access makes it a lot easier for me to read whether it is blogs, books, or yes, text messages and tweets.
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