November 18, 2009 by Graham Attwell
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mobile learning, context, user generated content, mature project
This is a link to a short video (embeds do not seem to work on this site) - the first in a new series of Sounds of the Bazaar videos - made as a contribution to a workshop on 'Technology-enhanced learning in the context of technological, societal and cultural transformation' being held on November 30 to December 1 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria. This workshop is organised by Norbert Pachler, the convenor of the London Mobile Learning Group (LMLG) and is being hosted by the EU funded Stellar network. The workshop is looking at the following questions:
The LMLG sees learning using mobile devices governed by a triangular relationship between socio-cultural structures, cultural practices and the agency of media users / learners, represented in the three domains. The interrelationship of these three components: agency, the user's capacity to act on the world, cultural practices, the routines users engage in their everyday lives, and the socio-cultural and technological structures that govern their being in the world, we see as an ecology, which in turn manifests itself in the form of an emerging cultural transformation. I have created a Cloudworks site to support the workshop and you are all invited to participate in the discussions. The site features key questions from a series of background papers, all available on the site and you are invited not only to comment but to add your own links, academic references and additional materials. The discussion is being organised around the following themes:
Look forward to your comments on this site or in the clouds.