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This study reports a survey study exploring Hong Kong secondary school students’ engagement with digital technologies outside school. In particular, we seek to depict how the youth use mobile phone and computers in their daily life and sought to compare their use of digital tools for personal and school-related purposes. Variables including age and gender are also explored to help better understand their impact on youth’s use of digital technologies. The results have shown that the Hong Kong teenagers are avid users of smartphones and computer. Although there are noted difference between their digital engagement in their daily life and for school-related work, technology especially social networking sites becomes increasingly important in their learning.
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Deng, L., Connelly, J., Lau, M., Ku, K.Y.L. (2015). Exploring Hong Kong Youth’s Engagement with Digital Technologies Outside School. In: Ma, W., Yuen, A., Park, J., Lau, W., Deng, L. (eds) New Media, Knowledge Practices and Multiliteracies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-209-8_14
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