what do we mean by mobile learning?
niall winters
what do we mean by mobile learning?
quick overview
conceptual understandings
mobilities & ant
apply to an example
implications
http://mlearning.noe-kaleidoscope.org/projects/index.php
what’s goin’ on!
location-based activitiesgamescollaboratione-sciencedata collection and analysisnew technologiesschools/home boundarieshistory, geography etc.adult education
where are we pointing?
“innovation in a social context” marcelo milrad
“technology creating new conditions for learning” ulrich hoppe
“mobile society”mike sharples
how to do it?
lots of very interesting and successful projects
what counts as mobile learning?
conceptual understanding
mobile technology
learners
info
mobile technology
learners
info
socio-technical interaction
(mobilities // social as spatial form // context)
mobilities
{learners, information, technology} (urry, 2000)
complex interactions & interdependencies
viewed as different abstract spaces
regional, network & fluid (law & mol, 2003)
spaces (ant)
object acting in space
student
PDAs
teacher
network
x
learners
relations
fluid
x
y
z
regional
characteristics of fluid space
boundaries are not fixed
what makes it work is adaptability
variable in regional and network space and fixed in fluid space: can only exist because of variability
however, there is a core of stable configurations so that is remains the same object: continuity is maintained
example: social tapestries
http://socialtapestries.net
mobile app as fluid objectfluid objects are customizable, adaptable
fluid objects are transferable between contexts
learning occurs through multiple changing relationships
change occurs slowly over time (continuity)
fluid objects can shape and be shaped, engendering different learning possibilities
conclusion
what is meant by mobile learning?
reconceptualised as learning the leverages the interplay between the mobilities of people, objects and information in fluid space
implications
one: mobilities are central. how are they to be designed for? how do we support the interaction between mobilities?
two: mobilities combine to produce new learning experiences
three: understanding the ways in which the network of associations change in mobile learning
