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What is Mobile Literacy

Chapter 33
Encyclopedia of Mobile Phone Behavior
A system of meaning-making that uses mobile technologies to help learners achieve their goals and communicate with their affinity groups.
Published in Chapter:
Mobile Literacies: Learning in the Mobile Age
Daniel Novak (University of Washington, USA) and Minjuan Wang (San Diego State University, USA & Shanghai International Studies University, China)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8239-9.ch033
Abstract
The ubiquity of Internet-capable mobile devices in the lives of people around the world has given rise to new learning practices that occur in an increasingly complex digital ecosystem. Mobile learning enables teachers to deliver instructional materials to a student when they need them, at points where the relevance and value of the knowledge are highest. In this chapter, the authors examine how the trend toward ubiquity of mobile and digital technologies has converged with changes in research paradigms in Education to produce a new approach to mobile learning design. This ‘mobile literacies' approach extends from contemporary thinking on mobile learning, cognitive science, the New Literacies, and instructional systems design. The chapter provides a design heuristic for ensuring attention to the important facets of the design of materials that take advantage of new opportunities for ‘learning in the mobile age.'
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