‘Mobile learning; Handheld learning?’ What do we mean?
by John Cuthell
1. AfL
1.1. Data
1.2. Evidence
1.3. assess process as well as product
2. Teaching
2.1. Tools
2.2. Efficiency
2.3. Collaboration
3. Learning
3.1. Content
3.2. Collaboration
3.3. Convenience
3.4. Organisation
3.5. Information
4. Chat captures perishable spoken language forms?
4.1. creating contexts for learning...twas ever thus?
5. The mobile learner connected via handheld 'smart' technology
5.1. interacting with location and context?
5.2. in a classroom?
5.3. moving between locations?
5.4. gateway to knowledge
6. Teaching the mobile learner
6.1. right to use device comes with responsibility to use it appropriately
6.2. Pedagogy that scaffolds learner agency
6.3. Need to be wi-fi aware
6.4. Confident with a range of devices
6.5. learning status of device needs to be recognised by both teachers and learners above its negative (sometimes) social status
6.6. Has anyone considered how disabled (SEN) learners can utilise mobile / handheld learning
7. Terminology wise...aren't they just learners that happen to be using mobile devices? Or is there a special disposition? Yes.
7.1. become 'person plus' (Perkins, 1993?)
7.2. user generated context and content
7.3. opportunities for learner agency and choice
7.4. Isn't it more about connectivity whilst learning, learning in the world in context rather than learning and searching for a context in conventional terms? Absolutely, the learner is interacting with both real and virtual contexts.
8. Extending, or transforming, mobile learning?
9. The Neo-Liberal Nightmare
9.1. Fragmentations
9.2. Transfrormations
9.3. Placement of the individual in the cultural landscape
9.4. positioning the individual
10. In and Of the World
10.1. Immanence
10.2. Transcendence
10.3. Preparation for work
11. Convergent devices and technologies
12. Divergent realities
13. Engagement
13.1. Anytime
13.1.1. Before lessons
13.1.2. During Lessons
13.1.3. After Lessons
13.1.4. Break/ Lunch
13.1.5. Extra Curricular
13.1.6. Evenings
13.1.7. Weekends
13.1.8. Excluded from school
13.2. Anywhere
13.2.1. Playground
13.2.2. Dinner Hall
13.2.3. Corridor
13.2.4. Classroom
13.2.5. Bus
13.2.6. Walking to/ from school
13.2.7. Home
13.2.8. Term time Holiday
13.3. Anyhow
13.3.1. Online
13.3.2. Offline
13.3.3. Local PC
13.3.4. Handheld Device
13.4. Yes but with what and why, social world and contact has purpose, learning needs a purpose no?
13.4.1. Education