The document discusses several perspectives on integrating formal and informal learning through the use of mobile and convergent technologies. It addresses challenges such as resistance from schools to informal learning, balancing formality and informality, and designing learning and teaching practices that leverage social and mobile contexts. The roles of teachers and learners are also questioned in light of these new approaches. Overall, the document debates how to best realize teaching and learning that utilizes mobile and convergent technologies and practices, especially within compulsory school settings.

1. Yishay Mor: Ben Bachmair:
The Interweaved Fabrics of Reality... Informal learning in ‘social mobile’ contexts...
- specific & semi-stable patterns: practices - resistance by schools against informal learning
- techno-pedagogic design, (BUT: social mobile contexts)
- material, social, intentional realms / spaces - didactic model & didactic design
- creating by visualisations: narratives, maps, storyboards - "widening contexts" & "conversational threads"
- learning with social mobile technologies - school projects on at-risk learners
- amplify/fragment the cohesion of experiences - everyday life media sets
Holotescu, Grosseck:
Judith Seipold:
Connecting formal and informal learning in HE...
M-Learning: potential, controversies and implications...
- integrate learning into HE
- scientific process of mobile learning as a discipline
- microblogging: co-, re-, created, validated, disseminated
- teaching & learning using mobile & convergent techn.
- social networks through mobile technologies
- collaborative learning: structures & actors
- formalized social network of PLEs
- learners’ agency, cultural practices, expertise & knowledge
- learning practices w/ mobile multimedia
- didactic approaches informed by socio-cultural ecology
- two levels: technological and pedagogical
How should teaching and learning using mobile
and convergent technologies and practices be realised ?
- compulsory school learning poses special challenges
- qustion of design of learning & teaching
- practice vs theory & academia
- formality vs. informality
- the role of teachers & learners