Mobile Learning: Structures, Agency, Practices

ISBN-13: 9781441905840 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 406 str.

Norbert Pachler; Ben Bachmair

Opis

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.

Recenzje

Aus den Rezensionen: "... Das Werk zielt insbesondere auf didaktische Aspekte ab und soll Pädagogen bei ihren Entscheidungen unterstützen. ... Das Verständnis des »Mobile Complex- wird zunächst sowohl aus pädagogischer als auch sozial semiotischer Sicht bewertet. ... Das Buch enthält viele Literaturhinweise sowie Links und gibt mit der Übersicht zu relevanten Veranstaltungen, Forschungsgruppen und Journals einen wertvollen Anknüpfungspunkt für Leute, die sich intensiv mit der Materie auseinandersetzen möchten. Die Betrachtungsweise erfolgt auf einem hohen Abstraktionsniveau ..." (in: Handbuch E-Learning, July/2010, Vol. 33, S. 59)

Spis treści

Part 1. Big picture and examples Chapter 1. Charting the conceptual space The ‘mobile complex’ ‘Mobile’ learning Education in the context of societal and cultural transformations An overview of the socio-cultural ecology: agency, cultural practices and structures Overview of the structure of the book References Chapter 2. Mobile learning: a topography Introduction A brief history of mobile learning Specialist conferences and events Professional associations Organisation with a particular interest in mobile learning Specialist journals Specialist issues on mobile learning Key issues in mobile learning Chapter 3. Mobile devices as resources for learning: adoption trends, characteristics, constraints and challenges Introduction Adoption trends of mobile devices and services Characteristics and functions of mobile devices Constraints and challenges Conclusions Chapter 4. Cases of mobile learning Methodology of the project analysis Cases Synoptic analysis Chapter 5. Whither a socio-cultural ecology of learning with mobile devices Introduction Activity Theory Conversation and discursive appropriation as contextual and reflexive activity Continuity of learning activities between and across contexts Activity Theory: a critical perspective Learning and meaning-making as subject-centred and context-related cultural practice Ecological approaches to (mobile) learning Participative, 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 socialhabitus A social-semiotic take on technology The affordances of smartphones: a social semiotic analysis Implications for socialization and learning Open questions: gains and losses Chapter 8. The mobile complex, socialization and learning resources Introduction Everyday life with mobile devices, socialization and critical mobile literacy The mobile complex within socio-cultural developments Chapter 9. Appropriation and learning Introduction Appropriation: personal development and the internalization of cultural products Mobile devices, media and mass communication Learning in contexts and supported by situations Chapter 10. At-risk learners: their contextual and conversational options Introduction Case analysis of a provocative mobile video Habitus, socio-cultural milieu and learning Chapter 11. User-generated content and contexts: an educational perspective Introduction The situated character of mobile media and learning contexts Flexibility of contexts, specificity of mobile learning User-generated content and individualized knowledge building Individualized knowledge of native experts Assimilation of mobile/cell phones and user-generated contexts An analysis of reflext context awareness Mobile/Cell phones: from everyday life to school learning Chapter 12. Four didactic parameters for analyzing and planning The four parameters: an introduction Using the four parameters as a tool for analysis From analysis to planning Implications for teacher support and development Part 3. Perspectives for mobile learning Chapter 13. Setting the scene Chapter 14. Emerging technologies and attendant practices Adoption horizons for key emerging technologies Computing off the desktop: going small, larg

O autorze

Prof. Dr. Ben Bachmair lehrt am Fachbereich Erziehungswissenschaft/Humanwissenschaft der Universität Kassel.