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Mobile Learning Mobile Library Mobile Technology Mobile
Society
John Traxler
Social Change
• changes/increases in domestic/social use of personal wireless & mobile devices and technologies
• relentless marketing and take-up of each new gadget, network, connectivity
• new forms of commerce, commodity, employment, crime, artistic expression, political organisation; new artefacts and economic assets
Isabodywear underwear fends off cellphone radiation
SMS Riot: Transmitting Race on Sydney Beach11 December 2005, as Sydney was settling into early summer haze, there was a race riot on the popular Cronulla beach in the city’s 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 Sydney’s 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.
Personal Change• discourse
• identity
• community
Mobiles and IdentityEver 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
Beyond constructivism?Beyond constructivism?WHAT IS BEYOND CONSTRUCTIVISM?
Knowledge
“Adoption”
Knowledge “Creation”
Knowledge “Navigation”
Learn = Study
Learn = Research
Learn = Explore / Evaluate / Navigate
Rote learning Active & productive learning Exploring & communicating Behaviourism Constructivism Problem solving
Navigationism / Explorism Evaluationism
“Teaching”
“Learning facilitation “Mentoring and
coaching”?
Teacher the source of knowledge [WHAT]
Teacher one of the sources of knowledge [source of What and assisted how]
Teacher the source of HOW
Knowledge creation is for some elites and knowledge is already in place
Knowledge creation is the central issue
Knowledge creation is a side/implied issue. The issue is to be able to navigate within the enormous knowledge explosion
[focus is on gaining] [focus on creation] [focus on navigation]
Social Constructivism
Guided research
Beyond constructivism?Beyond constructivism?WHAT IS BEYOND CONSTRUCTIVISM? Knowledge
“Adoption”
Knowledge “Creation”
Knowledge “Manipulation”
Learn = Study
Learn = Research
Learn = Processing / Exploring
Rote learning Active & productive learning Exploring & communicating Behaviourism Constructivism Problem solving
Processingism Explorism
“Teaching”
“Learning facilitation “Mentoring and
coaching”?
Teacher the source of knowledge [WHAT]
Teacher one of the sources of knowledge [source of What and assisted how]
Teacher the source of HOW
Knowledge creation is for some elites and knowledge is already in place
Knowledge creation is the central issue
Knowledge creation is a side/implied issue
[focus is on gaining] [focus on creation] [focus on using]
Social Constructivism
Guided research ?
Changes to Knowledge
access to information, data, knowledge is …..
• easy and convenient– but chunked & structured
differently– & consumed differently
• anytime/anywhere• just-in-time/just-for-me
‘dual paradigms’
It stores tunes and plays your favourite music wherever you go
Yes dear, it’s called the Grenadier Guards