This book is a response to the increasing importance at all levels of educational policy and practice internationally in information and communication technologies as a lever for innovation and improvement in standards. The book focuses on an emergent area of digital technology, namely mobile learning. It starts by providing an overview of current debates and publications before exploring issues around cultural transformation and rationales for the use of mobile technologies in formal education. The origin of mobile devices as mass media and patterns of their use in everyday life will be considered as a prerequisitefor their ability to transform sites of learning. With reference to international policy trends, the book will then examine current examples of the use of mobile technologies in school-related learning in relation to the themes of cultural transformation and technological innovation. The only text available dealing with mobile learning in formal education Deals with key aspect of educational policy and practice world wide (ICT) Focus on at risk groups in formal education and how portable technologies can support them Sound interdisciplinary theoretical foundation amply supported by case studies and examples Breaks new ground--market leader INDICE: M-Learning: An Overview.- About this book.- Current issues in m-learning: taking stock.- Whither a cultural ecological approach to m-learning.- A Topography of an Ecological Approach to M-Learning.- Cultural ecology: multimodal transformations and changing subjectivity in the at-risk society.- Ubiquitous learning: connected agency and situated meaning-making.- Mobile technology: affordances and constraints at the interface of learning inside and outside of school.- Perspectives for M-Learning.- Implications for school culture and organization as well as teacher education and development: new educational scripts and pedagogical practice.- Visions and suspicions.
- ISBN: 978-1-4419-0584-0
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 200
- Fecha Publicación: 01/09/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés