The document discusses the socio-cultural ecological approach to mobile learning. It describes how learners use mobile devices for identity formation, social interaction, meaning-making, and entertainment, especially for informal learning contexts. It also discusses how agency, practices, and structures shape the new "habitus of learning" where learning involves purposefully engaging with cultural resources, seeing one's life experiences as opportunities for learning, and developing expertise through personally relevant activities using mobile devices.

1. the socio-cultural ecological approach
to mobile learning
norbert pachler

2. www.londonmobilelearning.net

3. growing significance of
mobile devices
learners are making technology their own (appropriation) for and
through
identity formation
social interaction
meaning-making
entertainment
learning in informal contexts

4. socio-cultural ecology
agency: appropriation,
meaning-making, habitus of
learning, naïve native expertise
practices: normalization, self-
expression, communication,
user-generated content and
contexts
structures: convergence,
milieus, fragmentation,
provisionality, discontinuity

5. new habitus of learning
learning as purposive work with cultural resources
seeing ones life-worlds framed both as a challenge and as an environment
and a potential resource for learning
expertise is individually appropriated in relation to personal definitions of
relevance
the world has become the curriculum populated by mobile device users in
a constant state of expectancy and contingency
interrelationship between
target-orientation,
self-representation and
play