Summary: In this article, Mike Sharples, Josie Taylor, and Giasemi Vavola of the University of Birmingham, UK offer a preliminary framework towards mobile learning theory through the lens of Activity theory. While this framework includes elements of infant, classroom, and informal learning, Sharple, Taylor, and Vavola elucidate a transformative effect that supporting virtual communities can produce in digital networks. Such a framework aims at initializing a cutting-edge, integrated theory of mobile learning while informing the design of emerging technologies and learning analysis.
This was a very interesting read! I was always enjoy reading articles about the reconceptualizing of formal education and I appreciate the concrete context this provided by examining some initial frameworks of mobile learning theory.
Summary: In this article, Mike Sharples, Josie Taylor, and Giasemi Vavola of the University of Birmingham, UK offer a preliminary framework towards mobile learning theory through the lens of Activity theory. While this framework includes elements of infant, classroom, and informal learning, Sharple, Taylor, and Vavola elucidate a transformative effect that supporting virtual communities can produce in digital networks. Such a framework aims at initializing a cutting-edge, integrated theory of mobile learning while informing the design of emerging technologies and learning analysis.
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