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Title:
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IF I HAD A PHONE LIKE THAT YES! I WOULD USE IT, OBVIOUSLY, FOR MY ASSIGNMENTS: A STUDY OF MOBILE DEVICE APPROPRIATION FOR LEARNING |
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Author(s):
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John Cook , Claire Bradley |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8924-36-2 |
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Editors:
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Inmaculada Arnedillo Sánchez (series editors: Piet Kommers, Pedro Isaías and Nian-Shing Chen) |
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Year:
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2007 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Designing learning activities, learner generated contexts. |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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194 |
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Last Page:
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198 |
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Language:
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English |
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Cover:
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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This paper examines the following question: do learners appropriate near future devices (Nokia N91s) in order to
respond to a learning situation? Our approach was to design virtual-environment resources (learning objects) that were
made available on devices that were also suitable for users to generate content in an active learning context. The paper
presents the main results from a study of HE students undertaking an assignment using the N91s. By grounding our
findings in the data we conclude that there does appear to have been substantial evidence of learners adapting the new
devices to meet their own needs and some evidence of the resources being used to promote reflection. We also identified
many learner stories in terms of the affective response of students to the use of the mobile phones. Stories were seen as
important because they represent use genres which can be used by our planned context-aware system to offer services
and functionalities to learners at the appropriate moment. |
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