Investigation of the Student Opinions Related to Mobile Technology Use in Art Education and its Effect on Their Motivations

It is possible to apply technology, which is used in every field of education, in workshop courses. Accordingly, it is aimed to elicit the opinions and suggestions of the students who are educated in art teaching about the use of mobile technological devices (smartphone, tablet computer, notebook, etc.) for workshop courses, and to provide opportunities for more efficient and effective use of mobile devices in line with their opinions in the study. The study was carried out with voluntary participation of 45 students- from each class level- at the Department of Arts and Crafts in the Faculty of Education in Erzincan Binali Yıldırım University in the fall term of 2019-2020 academic year. In the study, which was designed with the qualitative research method, the data were collected with the semistructured interview form created according to expert opinion. Descriptive analysis was employed in the analysis of the qualitative data collected with the interview form. The results reached with the interviews suggest that it is necessary to use a mobile device for workshop courses, that it has advantages such as accessing information faster, looking at images, creating sketches, using different programs (Photoshop, pixelart, picsart, etc.) effectively., İt was found that the students especially stated the device charge and internet access problems during the visual search as the difficulties and limitations that may occur in the use of mobile devices. As it is considered in terms of motivation, it was determined that being fast and accessible positively affects student motivation, but students also experience negativities such as distraction from time to time In general, it was found that mobile devices contribute positively to education and training in art education as in every field of education.