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Adapting to Student Learning Styles: Using Cell Phone Technology in Undergraduate Science Instruction
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EdMedia + Innovate Learning, in Honolulu, HI, USA ISBN 978-1-880094-73-0 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Waynesville, NC

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Abstract: Students of science traditionally make 3x5 flash cards to assist learning nomenclature, structures, and reactions. Advances in educational technology have enabled flash cards viewed on computers, offering an endless array of drilling and feedback for students. The current generation of students is less inclined to use computers, but they use their cell phones 24 hours a day. This report outlines these trends and an even more recent educational technology initiative, that of using cell phone flash cards to help students learn biology and chemistry nomenclature, structures, and reactions. Students responded positively to cell phone flash cards in a pilot study and a more detailed study examining student attitude and performance is ongoing in general biology, general chemistry, organic chemistry, and biochemistry and preliminary results will be reported.

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Sauder, D., Timpte, C., Pennington, R., Tsoi, M.Y., Paredes, J.B. & Pursell, D. (2009). Adapting to Student Learning Styles: Using Cell Phone Technology in Undergraduate Science Instruction. In G. Siemens & C. Fulford (Eds.), Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2009--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (pp. 3066-3071). Honolulu, HI, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 8, 2024 from .

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