The Nature of Technology Consumption among School Children in Lower Northern Thailand

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Title

The Nature of Technology Consumption among School Children in Lower Northern Thailand

Subject

technology
mobile
Thailand

Description

The use of mobile computational devices among school children is increasing in developing countries. In order to clarify the trends of consuming technological devices, a survey study was carried out with 4,231 students across from the lower northern part of Thailand at Science Fair in Naresuan University between 2014 and 2017. The key findings illustrate smartphone usage is dramatically increasing while PCs and tablets usage is not stable in each year. It is becoming an essential technological device to access for the various purposes in their daily activities. Nonetheless, PCs is still heavily using as teaching aid material at school even students are more likely to access the portable computational devices such as tablets and smartphones than PCs. The breakdown study presents male and female students love to play games on all kinds of mobile devices. The evidences demonstrate mobile consumption amongst Thai school children is shifting towards positive and negative sides. Therefore, the constructive manner of technology consumptions might be varied on some influence factors such as individual knowledge, educational policy, parental controls and teachers’ attitudes towards using mobile devices at class.

Creator

Nang, Hsu Mon Pyae
Harfield, Antony

Source

International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM); Vol. 13 No. 05 (2019); pp. 137-146
1865-7923

Publisher

International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria

Date

2019-05-21

Rights

Copyright (c) 2019 Hsu Mon Pyae Nang

Relation

Format

application/pdf

Language

eng

Type

info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Non-refereed Article

Identifier

Citation

Hsu Nang Mon Pyae and Antony Harfield, The Nature of Technology Consumption among School Children in Lower Northern Thailand, International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria, 2019, accessed November 23, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/1440

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