Wednesday, May 04, 2005
Informal Learning
Had a meeting today of the project I'm involved in: Mobile learning in informal science settings - and much of the discussion was management of the project, which I'll not bore you with - but we had an interesting debate on what "informal" and "mobile" meant. Informal was both in terms of initiation - outside of a teacher asking for something, basically, and also in terms of process - how the information to address an issue was gathered - which is an interesting distinction. Mobile meant both data gathering - using mbility to do distributed experiments on pollution, for example, and in terms of users who may want information when out and about - and also in terms of mobile users who happened upon static technology, like kiosks. Some interesting issues, for sure.
Had a meeting today of the project I'm involved in: Mobile learning in informal science settings - and much of the discussion was management of the project, which I'll not bore you with - but we had an interesting debate on what "informal" and "mobile" meant. Informal was both in terms of initiation - outside of a teacher asking for something, basically, and also in terms of process - how the information to address an issue was gathered - which is an interesting distinction. Mobile meant both data gathering - using mbility to do distributed experiments on pollution, for example, and in terms of users who may want information when out and about - and also in terms of mobile users who happened upon static technology, like kiosks. Some interesting issues, for sure.
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