Pockets of Potential : using mobile technologies to promote children's learning

Carly Shuler (1)

1 Industry Studies

Just as Sesame Street helped transform television into a revolutionary tool for learning among young children four decades ago, advances in mobile technologies are showing enormous untapped educational potential for today’s generation. This report, undertaken by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, draws on interviews with a cross-section of research, policy, and industry experts to illustrate how mobile technologies such as cell phones, iPod devices, and portable gaming platforms might be more widely used for learning. More than half of the world’s population now owns a cell phone and children under 12 constitute one of the fastest growing segments of mobile technology users in the U.S. Examining over 25 handheld learning products and research projects in the U.S. and abroad, the report highlights early evidence and examples of how mobile devices may help re-defi ne teaching and learning in the decade ahead. (http://www.joanganzcooneycenter.org/upload_kits/pockets_of_potential_1_.pdf)

Mots clés: mobile learning; digital learning

Domaines: Environnements Informatiques pour l'Apprentissage Humain; Education

Carly Shuler. Pockets of Potential : using mobile technologies to promote children's learning. 2009. ⟨hal-00696254⟩