Symposium proposal entitled “Outside in, inside out? Digital media as cultural resources for learning” accepted for CAL 09 (Convenor: John Cook).
The Symposium will take place on Monday, March 23rd, 2009 from 13.15 – 14.35 hours in the Hilton Metropole Brighton.
Individual papers accepted as part of [...]

Abstract
This presentation will discuss ‘At-risk learners’ from the perspective of lifestyle aesthetics and in the gender perspective. Within this theoretical framework usage date on mobile devices such as mobile phones and portable gaming consoles will be presented and used in order to argue that there are certain risks inherent in the life-styles of young people [...]

Research on mobile learning is currently making a shift from practice-orientated research to theory building, often focusing on theorising communicative and discursive practices. In this context, an emerging tendency in theory building is to consider experiences related to the learners’ life worlds, agencies and cultural practices, in out-of-school, informal contexts.
To understand personalised, learner-centred learning from [...]