Design and Assessment of Using Smartphone Application in the Classroom to Improve Students' Learning

Teachers are always upset with students and their use of cell phones during classroom. Using of social media like texting, tweeting, and snap chatting during in class are an incredible disruption, resulting in a difficult education environment. In this article, we propose an innovative approach to encourage students to use their smartphone effectively in classroom and we evaluate our approach terms of students' performance and materials retention. The main idea behind this is to develop an easy and friendly application related to the course that may be accompanied by the used textbook. The proposed application can be adapted easily to any textbook or subject, where no prior knowledge of coding is required.