Mobile apps and computational systems as learning tools
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Abstract
It is nowadays needless to mention the relevant position that mobile devices are gaining in our contemporary society. Technologies have experienced an exponential growth thanks to the popularization of gadgets, which, besides their former communicative function, also show a noteworthy didactic application.
Smartphones, tablets and notebooks shave become common elements in our daily lives with which users, and specially youngsters, normally keep updated with the latest events and contact their friends and family in time periods between labor or teaching times. In these time spaces, on their way back home or in between classes, users can benefit from the use of apps and other resources available in their devices to improve their competence in specific fields (such as foreign languages, just to mention one) and get a more rooted and comfortably-acquired knowledge of what has been dealt with in class, thus joining the trend of ubiquitous learning, but the classroom has also became a gadget-territory, as more and more teachers take the initiative of including mobile devices as tools to learn or practice skills within the classroom and as part of subject materials.
In this track, we welcome presentations about ongoing researches in which new technologies, and mobile devices in particular, play a major role to enhance knowledge practice and acquisition, and especially when they tackle either with the autonomous use of apps and devices to boost competences, or as tools to practice or acquire skills in the classroom.
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