Networked: The New Social Operating System (9780262017190): Lee Rainie, Barry Wellman. Media consumption and the future of public connection. Professor Sonia Livingstone - Sonia Livingstone - AcademicStaff - Who's Who - Department of Media and Communications. Working Paper Series on Mobile Learning. UNESCO Mobile Learning Publications Today there are over six billion mobile phone subscriptions worldwide, and for every one person who accesses the internet from a computer two do so from a mobile device.
Given the ubiquity and rapidly expanding functionality of mobile technologies, UNESCO is enthusiastic about their potential to improve and facilitate learning, particularly in communities where educational opportunities are scarce. This Working Paper Series scans the globe to illuminate the ways in which mobile technologies can be used to support the United Nations Education for All Goals; respond to the challenges of particular educational contexts; supplement and enrich formal schooling; and make learning more accessible, equitable, personalized and flexible for students everywhere.
UNESCO Policy Guidelines for Mobile Learning Illustrative Initiatives and Policy Implications Exploring the Potential of Mobile Technologies to Support Teachers and Improve Practice Mobile Reading Back to top. Peter Diamandis: Abundance is our future Cla215.gif (300×350) Too Big to Know. Stack Exchange - Free, Community-Powered Q&A. Edcamp - home. Solar System Scope.
Daily Tip: How to watch Flash video on your iPad and iPhone. ICT Research. LIFE Center: About LIFE. The LIFE Center represents a collaboration between the University of Washington in Seattle, Stanford University, and SRI International, Inc., both in the San Francisco area.
The LIFE Center is a multi-institution Science of Learning Center funded by the National Science Foundation. The University of Washington is the lead institution. Other institutions across the country also participate. LIFE Center researchers represent a broad range of fields, including neurobiology, psychology, education, speech and hearing sciences, anthropology, and sociology, and many of the issues LIFE investigates arise from their interactions. Humans' social worlds are rich and complex, and social interaction is essential to our survival as a species. In spite of the heightened recognition of the importance of social factors for learning, the relevant mechanisms are not well understood. Purpose Mission The LIFE Center has defined two missions that reflect an interest in the social foundations of learning: 1. 2. Learning in the digital age. Marc Andreessen. Internet World Stats - Usage and Population Statistics.
Israel Internet Usage and Telecommunications Report. Cell Internet Use 2012. By Aaron Smith 17% of cell phone owners do most of their online browsing on their phone, rather than a computer or other device Some 88% of U.S. adults own a cell phone of some kind as of April 2012, and more than half of these cell owners (55%) use their phone to go online.
We call these individuals “cell internet users” throughout this report, and this represents a notable increase from the 31% of cell owners who said that they used their phone to go online as recently as April 2009. Moreover, 31% of these current cell internet users say that they mostly go online using their cell phone, and not using some other device such as a desktop or laptop computer. That works out to 17% of all adult cell owners who are “cell-mostly internet users”—that is, who use their phone for most of their online browsing. Young adults and non-whites are especially likely to use their cell phones for the majority of their online activity: About this survey. Internet Archive: Wayback Machine.
Homepage. Clay Shirky on the Potential of Cognitive Surplus Web 2.0 Expo NY: Clay Shirky (shirky.com) It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure. Networked Learners. Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project.