Context interaction systems for learning support

The interaction with context has undergone major transformations over time, all thanks to advances in nanotechnology that have facilitated the creation of much more robust hardware in terms of processing capacity, storage and high-speed telecommunications systems. Allowing a migration from explicit interactions that were only limited to navigation interfaces between the user and the devices to other types of interactions (implicit and peripheral)

Appropriation of mobile cultural resources for learning

Copyright © 2010 IGI Global. This article proposes appropriation as the key for the recognition of mobile devices - as well as the artefacts accessed through, and produced with them - as cultural resources across different cultural practices of use, in everyday life and formal education. The article analyses the interrelationship of users of mobile devices with the structures, agency and practices of, and in relation to what the authors call the "mobile complex". Two examples are presented and some curricular options for the assimilation of mobile devices into settings of formal learning are discussed. Also, a typology of appropriation is presented that serves as an explanatory, analytical frame and starting point for a discussion about attendant issues