enhanced learning mobile learning in a mobile society

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enhanced learningmobile learning in a mobile
society

• John Traxler

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the impact of mobile technologies on the
expectations and behaviour of a society
increasingly transformed by these technologies
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SMS Riot Transmitting Race on Sydney Beach
11 December 2005, as Sydney was settling into
early summer haze, there was a race riot on the
popular Cronulla beach in the citys southern
suburbs. Hundreds of people, young men
especially, gathered for a weekend protest. Their
target and pretext were visitors from the
culturally diverse suburbs to the west, and the
need to defend their women and beaches in the
face of such unwelcome incursions and behaviours.
In the ensuing days, there were violent raids and
assaults criss-crossing back and forth across
Sydneys beaches and suburbs, involving almost
farcical yet deadly earnest efforts to identify,
respectively, people of anglo or Middle
Eastern appearance (often specifically
Lebanese) and to threaten or bash them. At the
very heart of this state of siege and the fear,
outrage, and sadness that gripped those living in
Sydney were the politics of transmission. The
spark that set off this conflagration was widely
believed to have been caused by the transmission
of racist and violent calls to arms via mobile
text messages.
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Mobiles and Identity

• Ever since mobile phone services were introduced
  in KwaZulu-Natal some parents have named their
  children after some of the terms used by mobile
  services providers. According to Home Affairs
  statistics some of the children born from 1993
  when mobile services were introduced in the
  province (and the rest of SA) have the following
  names
• Network Madondo
• Subscriber Zulu
• Nokia Khumalo
• Siemens Mdlalose
• Motorola Buthelezi
• Dial Magubane
• Vodacom Mkhize
• Call Later Ndlovu
• Voicemail Ngobese
• Simcard Makhathini
• Scratchcard Mlaba
• Talktime Luthuli
• Send Ndebele

• Paging Nyawose
• Cellphone Mpungose
• Message Gumede
• SMS Mabaso
• Phonebook Dlamini
• Ringtone Khoza
• MTN Shezi
• Prepaid Zwane
• Pay as you go Mfeka
• Please Call Me Cetshwayo
• Contract Mabaso
• Charger Ngobese
• Hands Free Tshabalala
• Unavailable Masondo
• Switchoff Mabuza
• Sim-Rejected Hlongwane
• Airtime Zwelithini
• Internet Mthethwa
• Server Mkhize

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It stores tunes and plays your favourite music
wherever you go
Yes dear, its called the Grenadier Guards
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the impact that mobile technologies are already
having on the expectations and needs of learners
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dual paradigms
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Thanks to Learning2Go, Mobile Learning
Initiative, Wolverhampton LA
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M-moderators

• Become, mobile, portfolio teachers
• Work with varying cultures traditions,
• Create tiny chunks of learning activities,
• Relate to students without meeting,
• Promote student ownership of learning process

Professor Gilly Salmon
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Beyond constructivism?
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Beyond constructivism?
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Challenges

• learning freed from time, place, presence and
  perhaps from institutions
• learning built around the content and the
  technologies of learners themselves 
• learning adapted to new mobile pedagogies
• learning for new and emerging mobile communities

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Ironbridge Gorge
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Engenuity
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Thank you

• John.traxler_at_wlv.ac.uk