Title:	MULTIMODAL INTEGRATION FROM A PHILOSOPHICAL POINT OF VIEW
Author(s):	Zsuzsanna Kondor
ISBN:	978-972-8924-36-2
Editors:	Inmaculada Arnedillo Sánchez (series editors: Piet Kommers, Pedro Isaías and Nian-Shing Chen)
Year:	2007
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	cognition, communication, community, integration, literacy, multimodality
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	119
Last Page:	126
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	In this paper, I argue for the integrative power of mobile devices both from a cognitive and social point of view. (The ease of building new elements into the framework of earlier acquired knowledge is crucially important when considering any kind of learning activity.) As part of my reasoning, I rely considerably on the lessons of cognitive evolutionary studies, and on an overview of the development of communications technology as well as that of the educational system. Changes recently experienced suggest that the slowly modifying habits in everyday activity could cause institutional changes as well, and mobile technology plays an important role in this process. Mobile technology integrates almost all the inventions of the last century into the realm of communications technology, i.e. it is capable of mediating nearly all kinds of experiences at any time and with no regard to its location. Accordingly, it could be a dominant mediator of social intercourse. Since education is tailored according to the limits and demands of literacy, while at the same time it tries to tame new technology, (i.e., integrate it into the framework of traditional patterns), change may not be as fast as expected. Mobile learning could yield a vision of an educational system which is deeply immersed in everyday practice and ready to answer emerging demands.
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