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Mobile Learning: The Significance of New Mobile and Wireless Communications Technologies for Education

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Part of the book series: Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research ((GCEP,volume 4))

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At present, the popular perception of mobile telephones in the UK, including the education sector, is generally negative: they are perceived as a nuisance and distraction (Stone, 2002, p. 262).

The image of schoolchildren staring out of the classroom window, minds preoccupied with daydreams, could be supplanted by one of students staring forward — not daydreaming but interacting with vibrating gadgets, chattering with offsite friends and accessing materials from outside the classroom. Tomorrow’s mobile technology may be the perfect tutor in the local/global biomachine that many futurologists anticipate (Katz, 2004) .

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    Goggin, G. (2009). Mobile Learning: The Significance of New Mobile and Wireless Communications Technologies for Education . In: Gibbs, D., Zajda, J. (eds) Comparative Information Technology. Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9426-2_5

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