by mariawidmer | Jul 9, 2016 | Blog, LDT 505
As the field of mobile learning has matured, educational researchers like Looi et al. (2010) and Kearney, Shuck, Burden, & Aubusson (2012) have moved from an initial focus on software and device design to instead place at the nucleus of inquiry the kinds of...
by mariawidmer | Jun 25, 2016 | Blog, LDT 505
Mobile devices afford both consumption and production. The purposes for which they are used are determined in part by their physical and technological design, but perhaps more importantly by their users’ needs, interests, and motivations. We can think of this coupling...
by mariawidmer | Jun 11, 2016 | Blog, LDT 505
“I think he decided very young to write his own life story. I think he decided that he would not be ever disempowered. Not his race, not his place, not the expectations of others whether positive or negative would strip from him the power to write his own...
by mariawidmer | Jun 4, 2016 | Blog, LDT 505
The nature or nurture binary is bunk. At best, it asks for a facile choice between what are essentially complementary mechanisms of brain and behavior. At worst, it’s a model that strips an individual of agency, forcing a fixed mindset that hinders self-directed...
by mariawidmer | May 28, 2016 | Blog, LDT 505
“It was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind…”(Saxe, J. G., 1873) The Tale of the Elephant Designing an effective learning...
by mariawidmer | May 21, 2016 | Blog, LDT 505
It’s 12:30 PM and your lunch period is (finally) here. Seizing your half hour to chat with friends, you scarf down three slices of cafeteria pizza in rapid succession. All-too-quickly, the bell rings and you’re off to science class, reinvigorated. Fifteen minutes in,...
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