17–19 May 2024
Meijo University Nagoya Dome Campus
Asia/Tokyo timezone

A Longitudinal Look at Japanese Students’ Experience with Technology

19 May 2024, 10:50
30m
DN 409 (North Building)

DN 409 (North Building)

Research Presentation (30 minutes) Research and Development DN 409

Speaker

Edo Forsythe (Hirosaki Gakuin University)

Description

As we consider how to introduce Japanese students to the world of AI, it is important to understand their experience with educational technology in general. This session presents 9 years of survey data into Japanese university students’ experiences with using technology in learning. The surveys were conducted among over 1,000 first-year university students at both private and public universities between 2011 and 2019. The surveys asked about their experience with using technology to learn. The survey results will be presented in this session with both quantitative and qualitative details about what types of things were learned using technology. Knowing what experiences the students come to the classroom with will allow teachers to better plan for the integration of new AI and other technologies into their lessons and advise students on how to effectively use technology in their learning pursuits. Attendees to this session will learn about the experiences students have had with using technology in learning and then will discuss how to leverage those into productive use of technology in the classroom today as we move into the AI era. Attendees will also discuss the challenges they have experienced in integrating technology into language learning and share lessons learned.

Keywords edtech experience, student experience

Primary author

Edo Forsythe (Hirosaki Gakuin University)

Presentation materials