Part 2: Mobile Devices as Resources for Learning: A Socio-Cultural Ecological Analysis of the Mobile Complex
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Topic: 08: The Mobile Complex, Socialization and Learning Resources

The integration of mobile devices into everyday life by all groups in society leads to a socialisation effect around ubiquitous mobility and in turn to a quasi mobile identity around the availability and disposition of social activities and space. This does not mean that typical school competences, such as reading written texts, are irrelevant; on the contrary, they are essential, particularly as a basis for critical participation in the mobile ‘world’. The socialisation effect of the mobile/cell phone within the wider mobile complex challenges the school to support critical literacy. Through a detailed examination of the mobile complex we identify pedagogic tasks in this chapter. We consider mobile devices and their applications in the interrelation of socio-cultural structures, agency and cultural practices. Mobile, individualised mass communication is one feature of prevailing socio-cultural structures, which does not only mould specific habitus of learning and media use for personalised life-worlds but promotes individual expertise. An important option for schools is to assimilate such naïve expertise of everyday life and foster it at the appropriate level of reflection and complexity.

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Sharples, Mike and Beale, Russell, A technical review of mobile computational devices (2003), in: Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 19:3(392--395)

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Selwyn, Neil, Developing the technological imagination: theorising the social shaping and consequences of new technologies, in: Theorising the benefits of new technology for youth: controversies of learning and development. The educational and social impact of new technologies on young people in Britain, ESRC, pages 18--29, University of Oxford, 2008
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Adami, Elisabetta, Do YouTube? When Communication Turns into Video Enteraction, in: Forms of Migration – Migrations of Forms, Convegno Nazonale A/A, 2009

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Beale, Russell, How to enhance the experience without interfering with it?, in: Big Issues in Mobile Learning, Learning Sciences Research Institute, pages 12--16, Kaleidoscope, 2007
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Stald, Gitte, Mobile identity: youth, identity, and mobile communication media, in: Youth, Identity, and Digital Media, pages 143--164, MIT Press, 2008
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Lave, Jean and Wenger, Etienne, Situated learning: Legitimate peripheral participation, Cambridge University Press, Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive, and Computational Perspect, 1991
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Giddens, Anthony, Sociology, Polity Press, 2006

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Wood, D., Bruner, J. and Ross, G., The role of tutoring in problem solving (1976), in: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 17:2(89--100)
Nyiri, Kristof, Towards a Philosophy of M-Learning, in: IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education (WMTE 2002), 2002
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Haythornthwaite, Caroline, Ubiquitous Transformations, in: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Networked Learning, Networked Learning, Halkidiki, Greece, pages 598--605, 2008
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Dourish, Paul, What we talk about when we talk about context (2004), in: Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 8:1(19--30)
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