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
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."
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