Abstract
The new national curriculum guidelines give weight to planning for more effective
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) application. As part of the teachertraining course, there is a need for hands-on guidance to increase the students’ ability to
use ICT. However, looking at our students of teacher-training courses, one sees that a
large number of students are unskilled in the operation and practical application of ICT
equipment.
In this study, we tackle the issue of reducing students’ feelings of inadequacy and
increasing their confidence and motivation in using ICT equipment, and report on using
the students’ own smartphones for practical instruction to “create and publish teaching
presentations and mock lessons.”
Using survey results for the teaching presentations created by students and mock
lessons, we show the effectiveness of instruction using smartphones as low-threshold
ICT use for students.
