Mobile Learning Structures, Agency, Practices
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 pr
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Mobile Learning Structures, Agency, Practices
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Mobile Learning
Norbert Pachler · Ben Bachmair · John Cook
Mobile Learning Structures, Agency, Practices
with contributions from Gunther Kress, Judith Seipold, Elisabetta Adami and Klaus Rummler
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Norbert Pachler University of London Institute of Education 20 Bedford Way London United Kingdom WC1H 0AL [email protected]
Ben Bachmair Universität Kassel FB Erziehungswissenschaft/ Humanwissenschaften Nora-Platiel-Str. 1–5 34127 Kassel Germany [email protected]
John Cook London Metropolitan University 166-220 Holloway Road London Tower Bldg. North Campus United Kingdom N7 8DB [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-0584-0 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-0585-7 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-0585-7 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2009938820 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
To three special ‘native experts’: Benjamin, James and Daniel
Acknowledgments
Gunther Kress, Elisabetta Adami, Judith Seipold, and Klaus Rummler took part in regular meetings of the London Mobile Learning Group; they contributed to the development of the book overall. Specifically, Elisabetta Adami and Gunther Kress authored Chapter 7 against the background of the conceptual work of the LMLG. Judith Seipold led on the writing of Chapter 4. Klaus Rummler contributed to the discussion about at-risk learners in Chapters 1 and 10; he led on preparing the artwork contained in the book and on permissions.
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Contents
Part I
Big picture and Examples
1 Charting the Conceptual Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The ‘Mobile Complex’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Focus on Socio-cultural Conditions, Avoidance of Technological Fetishisation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ‘Mobile’ Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Definitional Bases and Key Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . Some Important Characteristics of Mobile Devices . . . . . . . Opportunities and Challenges for Mobile Learning . . . . . . . The Need for a Coherent Theoretical/Conceptual Frame for the Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Building a Larger Frame for Understanding . . . . . . . . . . . Ed
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