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What Do We Know About Ubiquitous Computing?

Ubiquitous computing seems to particularly impact learning processes through its effects in three broad areas:
1.) ubiquitous computing makes a wide variety of representations of knowledge available to support learning.
2.) ubiquitous computing provides unique supports for individuals' internal construction of knowledge, what we term "conceptualizations"

3.) ubiquitous computing changes the nature of social interactions and the shared uses of knowledge in classrooms, and so affects the social construction of knowledge within them

At the Research Center for Educational Technology (RCET), we have accordingly organized our research according to these three areas to develop the following model which locates the effects of ubiquitous computing on teaching and learning at their intersection.

On these pages, we have similarly organized research findings, what we know about how ubiquitous computing affects teaching and learning. Click on representations, conceptualizations, or uses to explore research findings in these areas.

For an annotated bibliography of research on ubiquitous computing see: http://www.ubiqcomputing.org/Reference.pdf

 

 

Last updated on 05/12/2006