Evaluating Effects of Innovative Media Technologies on Educational Achievement of Prospective Teachers.

Abstract

Nowadays across the globe innovative media technologies like Android phones are becoming part and parcel of education. Students in higher education are specially gating acquainted with this technological innovation. Present research study evaluated effects of smart phones on the educational achievement of prospective teachers at higher education level. Major objectives of the study identified effects of innovative technology in the development of educational behavior of the graduates and evaluation of the problems faced by the learners at higher education level. Android phones became all in one portable devices of knowledge access pertaining face to face communication (video call, WhatsApp, Facebook, blogs and Imo) for the prospective teachers. Now learners seemed to use this media device as “technological object” as well as; “social interactor.”