Ubiquitous learning, ubiquitous computing, and lived experience

Bruce, Bertram C.

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Title

Ubiquitous learning, ubiquitous computing, and lived experience

Author(s)

Bruce, Bertram C.

Issue Date

2009

Keyword(s)

• Ubiquitous computing
• Lived experience
• Audio-visual materials.
• Learning ecology
• Technocentric

Abstract

Ubiquitous learning implies a vision of learning which is connected across all the stages on which we play out our lives. Learning occurs not just in classrooms, but in the home, the workplace, the playground, the library, museum, and nature center, and in our daily interactions with others. Moreover, learning becomes part of doing; we don't learn in order to live more fully, but rather learn as we live to the fullest. It is understandable to see ubiquitous computing necessary for this kind of ubiquitous learning and sufficient to make it possible. Education would certainly be easier to promote if we could simply identify some new technologies that would make ubiquitous learning occur. But the new technologies are neither necessary nor sufficient for this to happen. This chapter argues that it is our vision for ubiquitous learning that matters most, not simply the technical affordances. We need to define ubiquitous learning in an historically legitimate way, one which recognizes the possibilities afforded by the new technologies without reducing the argument to a technocentric position.

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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