Mobile Learning
Structures, Agency, Practices
Published on 1. October 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
388 pages
978-1-4419-6635-3 (ISBN)
Description
As with television and computers before it, today's mobile technology challenges educators to respond and ensure their work is relevant to students. What's changed is that this portable, cross-contextual way of engaging with the world is driving a more proactive approach to learning on the part of young people. The first full-length authored treatment of the relationship between the centrality of technological development in daily life and its potential as a means of education, "Mobile Learning" charts the rapid emergence of new forms of mass communication and their potential for gathering, shaping, and analyzing information, studying their transformative capability and learning potential in the contexts of school and socio-cultural change. The focus is on mobile/cell phones, PDAs, and to a lesser extent gaming devices and music players, not as 'the next new thing' but meaningfully integrated into education, without objectifying the devices or technology itself.
And the book fully grounds readers by offering theoretical and conceptual models, an analytical framework for understanding the issues, recommendations for specialized resources, and practical examples of mobile learning in formal as well as informal educational settings, particularly with at-risk students. Among the topics covered: core issues in mobile learning; mobile devices as educational resources; socioeconomic approaches to mobile learning; creating situations that promote mobile learning; ubiquitous mobility and its implications for pedagogy; and, bridging the digital divide at the policy level. "Mobile Learning" is a groundbreaking volume, sure to stimulate both discussion and innovation among educational professionals interested in technology in the context of teaching and learning.
And the book fully grounds readers by offering theoretical and conceptual models, an analytical framework for understanding the issues, recommendations for specialized resources, and practical examples of mobile learning in formal as well as informal educational settings, particularly with at-risk students. Among the topics covered: core issues in mobile learning; mobile devices as educational resources; socioeconomic approaches to mobile learning; creating situations that promote mobile learning; ubiquitous mobility and its implications for pedagogy; and, bridging the digital divide at the policy level. "Mobile Learning" is a groundbreaking volume, sure to stimulate both discussion and innovation among educational professionals interested in technology in the context of teaching and learning.
Reviews / Votes
Aus den Rezensionen: "... Das Werk zielt insbesondere auf didaktische Aspekte ab und soll Padagogen bei ihren Entscheidungen unterstutzen. ! Das Verstandnis des A"Mobile Complex- wird zunachst sowohl aus padagogischer als auch sozial semiotischer Sicht bewertet. ... Das Buch enthalt viele Literaturhinweise sowie Links und gibt mit der Aubersicht zu relevanten Veranstaltungen, Forschungsgruppen und Journals einen wertvollen Anknupfungspunkt fur Leute, die sich intensiv mit der Materie auseinandersetzen mochten. Die Betrachtungsweise erfolgt auf einem hohen Abstraktionsniveau ..." (in: Handbuch E-Learning, July/2010, Vol. 33, S. 59)More details
Edition
Edition. ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
New York, NY
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional/practitioner
Illustrations
15 s/w Tabellen
15 black & white tables
ISBN-13
978-1-4419-6635-3 (9781441966353)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4419-0585-7
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Book
12/2009
1st Edition
Springer
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Content
Part 1. Big picture and examples; Chapter 1. Charting the conceptual spaceThe 'mobile complex"Mobile' learningEducation in the context of societal and cultural transformationsAn overview of the socio-cultural ecology: agency, cultural practices and structuresOverview of the structure of the bookReferences; Chapter 2. Mobile learning: a topographyIntroductionA brief history of mobile learningSpecialist conferences and eventsProfessional associationsOrganisation with a particular interest in mobile learningSpecialist journalsSpecialist issues on mobile learningKey issues in mobile learning; Chapter 3. Mobile devices as resources for learning: adoption trends, characteristics, constraints and challengesIntroductionAdoption trends of mobile devices and servicesCharacteristics and functions of mobile devices Constraints and challengesConclusions; Chapter 4. Cases of mobile learningMethodology of the project analysisCasesSynoptic analysis; Chapter 5. Whither a socio-cultural ecology of learning with mobile devicesIntroductionActivity TheoryConversation and discursive appropriation as contextual and reflexive activityContinuity of learning activities between and across contextsActivity Theory: a critical perspectiveLearning and meaning-making as subject-centred and context-related cultural practiceEcological approaches to (mobile) learningParticipative, interactive, situated and contextual learning; Part 2. An ecological approach to mobile learning in the context of global transformation; Chapter 6. Analysing the mobile complex for education: key concepts; Chapter 7. A social semiotic analysis of mobile devices: interrelations of technology and social habitusA social-semiotic take on technologyThe affordances of smartphones: a social semiotic analysisImplications for socialization and learningOpen questions: gains and losses; Chapter 8. The mobile complex, socialization and learning resourcesIntroductionEveryday life with mobile devices, socialization and critical mobile literacyThe mobile complex within socio-cultural developments; Chapter 9. Appropriation and learningIntroductionAppropriation: personal development and the internalization of cultural productsMobile devices, media and mass communicationLearning in contexts and supported by situations; Chapter 10. At-risk learners: their contextual and conversational optionsIntroductionCase analysis of a provocative mobile videoHabitus, socio-cultural milieu and learning; Chapter 11. User-generated content and contexts: an educational perspectiveIntroductionThe situated character of mobile media and learning contextsFlexibility of contexts, specificity of mobile learningUser-generated content and individualized knowledge buildingIndividualized knowledge of native expertsAssimilation of mobile/cell phones and user-generated contextsAn analysis of reflext context awarenessMobile/Cell phones: from everyday life to school learning; Chapter 12. Four didactic parameters for analyzing and planningThe four parameters: an introductionUsing the four parameters as a tool for analysisFrom analysis to planningImplications for teacher support and development; Part 3. Perspectives for mobile learning; Chapter 13. Setting the scene; Chapter 14. Emerging technologies and attendant practicesAdoption horizons for key emerging technologiesComputing off the desktop: going small, large, everywhere and getting interactiveEmerging infrastructure and devices: engaging with interdisciplinary discourseContext-sensitive learningSocial operating systemsHow ubiquitous do you want it?Ethical considerations and suspicionsBridging the digital divide on the policy levelConclusions; Chapter 15. Visions and suspicionsGetting beyond being criticalThe issue of recognition: the education system and prevailing social/cultural transformationsLearning and life-worlds: environments of learningParticipation, social divides and cultural resourcesSituated learning and new practices of learningContext awareness