Digital Literacy Using Alternative Teaching and Learning Digital Forms in Students of Different Ethnic Minority Groups in Greece
Abstract
Digital Literacy across the curriculum (i.e.Scientific Literacy, Computer Literacy, Technology Literacy), means that students are learning literacy skills while learning other content areas like math, science, social studies, art, and music. Mobile educational systems have started to emerge as potential educational environments supporting life-long learning. The role that communication and interaction plays in the learning process is a critical factor. This paper intends to identify and discuss the strategic assumptions behind the current thinking on the m-learning paradigm and to explore the relationships with e-learning development. Mobility and communication are essential for satisfying several needs associated with learning, working, socializing, political participation, entertainment and other activities.
M-learning has now emerged as a new wave of development, based on the use of mobile devices combined with wireless infrastructure. Much of the current literature on m-learning reveals all the strengths and weaknesses associated with the more mature e-learning communities.Distance learning, electronic learning and mobile learning offer methods, which decrease the limitations of traditional education. This paper also discusses the existing devices and technologies appropriate to realise mobile learning. The learning society has currently transformed from ‘wired society’ to become ‘mobile society’ which is facilitated by wireless network. To suit to this new paradigm, m-learning was given birth and rapidly building its prospect to be included in the future curriculum. Research and studies on m-learning spruced up in
numerous aspects but there is still scarcity in studies on curriculum design of m-learning. The challenge for educators and designers, however, is one of understanding and exploring how best we might use these resources to support learning and school literacy to students of immigrant ethnic minorities today as well as to provide directions to an enhanced curriculum as more than sixty five thousand children from across the world are today students in Primary Schools in Greece.
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