Smartphone Potential Energy in the Digital Era and the Construction of Learning Organizations in Universities

Abstract

As human society enters the digital era in the 21st century, the widespread application of smartphones is reshaping the educational ecosystem. Smartphones not only possess communication, entertainment, and payment functions but also educational and relationship adjustment capabilities. These positive, promotive functions endowed by smartphones are referred to as smartphone potential energy. A survey conducted among students in three English teaching classes at a Beijing university revealed that smartphone potential energy typically plays four roles: resource sharer, direction guide, relationship facilitator, and learning motivator, thereby promoting the construction of university learning organization relationships. Under the influence of smartphone potential energy, organizational relationships shift from a focus on subjective interpersonal relationships to objective neutrality, and organizational structures evolve from linear hierarchical to flat structures, achieving a transition from management to governance, which provides insights for university grassroots student organization managers to scientifically implement organizational management and optimize relationships in the digital era.