Impact of Classroom Phubbing on Teachers who face Phubbing during lectures

Authors : Thseen NAZİR

Pages : 41-47

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Publication Date : 2020-06-15

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Technology invaded every aspect of over lives and classrooms are not the exception. Advancement in education technology tried hard to utilize modern technology in classrooms in order to enhance learning, improve learning environment and it revolutionized the classrooms. In this technological advancement, it bought huge positive drift in learning outcomes but on another side, it bought many distractions. One of the common distractions during lectures nowadays is use of smartphones in classrooms during lectures. Teachers often find students using smartphones during their lectures and no doubt, even its use had been limited strictly in the classroom policies and norms. Such kind of use of smartphone during the lectures is termed as Classroom-Phubbing. The Word Phubbing is new and can be defined as the action of ignoring or snubbing someone during one-to-one interaction or in any social events by using smartphones, whether it is checking Facebook, using WhatsApp or using any other chatting applications and attempting multitasks insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(Nazir.,2016);. This phenomenon is nowadays very common in every walk of life and it intrude in classrooms and influences teachers as well as learning environment. Thus, this kind of behavior done by students during lectures can be termed as classroom-Phubbing. This study will try to understand the influence of Phubbing on teachers during lecture, their emotional responses, their attitudes, and whether it is having effect if any on the teachers. The study interviewed teachers regarding the phenomenon and the interviews was guided by the survey questionnaire in order to understand there emotional and attitudinal response towards Classroom-Phubbing.
Keywords : Phubbing, smartphones, classroom Phubbing

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