Digital devices that have high mobility, a small footprint, computational and display capabilities to view, collect, or otherwise use representations and/or large amounts of data; and the ability to support collaboration and/or data sharing. Devices include PDAs, mobile phones, some tablet computers, networked graphing calculators, UMPCs, the new generation of handheld gaming systems, iPods, motes, and data loggers.
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Anywhere, Anytime Learning Using Highly Mobile Devices
Mark van ‘t Hooft (Kent State University, USA), Graham Brown-Martin (Handheld Learning, UK), and Karen Swan (Kent State University, USA)
Copyright: © 2008
|Pages: 6
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-881-9.ch006
Abstract
In a world that is increasingly mobile and connected, the nature of information resources is changing. The new information is networked, unlimited, fluid, multimodal, and overwhelming in quantity. Digital technologies, such as mobile phones, wireless handheld devices, and the Internet, provide access to a wide range of resources and tools, anywhere and anytime. This type of access and connectivity has also had an impact on how we collaborate on projects and share media and therefore, greatly increases opportunities to learn inside and outside institutionalized school systems. Learners now have the tools to take learning beyond classrooms and the school day.