Podcast: The Benefits of Mobile Learning

Here's a small audio file advertising the benefits of podcasting and social networking for today's classrooms. For anybody involved in distance- and language learning, just to give two examples, digital tools are priceless.

As somebody involved in Slavic Studies, I can vouch for the fact that my own field has much to gain here. Russia has the world’s most engaged social-networking audience. Russians use networking sites at a rate far above the world average, spending close to 7 hours per month on them (rather than the international average of 3.7 hours), and viewing over 1,300 members’ pages over the same period, rather than the usual 525. This is where language matters to our students and their studies, long after the school day has ended.

Following the successful use of SMS, mobile email, mobile discussion boards, and handheld messengers in SLA tasks, we can see that convenience has a direct and positive influence on student participation and gain. To care more, consequently, means to achieve more – in patterns of intersubjective meaning.

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