IPad Apps’ Influence on Students’ Compliance

The emergence of technology has ameliorated various fields in education. Technological applications are being adopted by several schools to facilitate students’ learning. Teachers are using such products to pave the way for more effective teaching practices. In addition, these technological applications are utilized by parents to increase their children’s positive behaviors. IPad and its educational application programs are effective tools for increasing elementary students’ compliance with doing the reading homework. One of these applications is Book Creator in which individuals can create children’s interactive stories. These interactive stories make the reading homework an interesting assignment, and therefore students’ compliance with doing homework is likely increasing. This paper describes the importance of compliance with reading homework for students whose English is their second language. In addition, this paper discusses how interactive reading books promote compliance with homework completion. The study was conducted using a single subject withdrawal design. 

The emergence of technology has ameliorated various fields in education. Technological applications are being adopted by several schools to facilitate students’ learning. Teachers are using such products to pave the way for more effective teaching practices. In addition, these technological applications are utilized by parents to increase their children’s positive behaviors. IPad and its educational application programs are effective tools for increasing elementary students’ compliance with doing the reading homework. One of these applications is Book Creator in which individuals can create children’s interactive stories. These interactive stories make the reading homework an interesting assignment, and therefore students’ compliance with doing homework is likely increasing. This paper describes the importance of compliance with reading homework for students whose English is their second language. In addition, this paper discusses how interactive reading books promote compliance with homework completion. The study was conducted using a single subject withdrawal design.