Mobile Videos and Photos as Tools for Implicit Learning

Author(s):

Tine Nowak(presenting / submitting)

Conference:

ECER 2013

Network:

21. Emerging Researchers' Group (for presentation at Emerging Researchers' Conference)

Format:

Paper

Session Information

ERG SES D 03, ICT in Education

Paper Session

Time:

2013-09-09

13:30-15:00

Room:

A-103

Chair:

Jani Petri Ursin

Contribution

Through the everyday use of multimedia mobile phones (Oksman 2010 and Struckmaier 2010) adolescents are able to produce their own pictures and videos as part of their daily life. Several educational projects are taking these new practices into account e.g. using mobile videos for language learning, for self-expression and visual experiments or for mobile learning projects in museums or at historic memorials (e.g. Bachmeier Friedrich Risch 2011). Nyíri (2002) argues that mobile communication itself becomes learning not just by texts also by pictures. Medial learning potentials are assumed but not well investigated

My research, a projected doctoral thesis, aims to explore implicit learning of adolescents within the production of mobile photos and mobile videos (Oksman 2008). The research questions are: 1. What different functions has self-motivated mobile video and photo production and use for teenagers? 2. Is the smartphone a learning tool, which enables and promotes self-motivated learning?

In a first step I am going to compare scientific literature of formal, non-formal, informal and implicit learning in use of multimedia (e.g. Cook Pachler Bradley 2008). In a second step I undertake a qualitative research about implicit learning via mobile video and photo production of young people. At the ECER Conference first findings of the literature analysis will be presented and the qualitative field study design will be discussed.

Method

Based on a comparative literature analysis a qualitative field study with approximately 12-15 young adolescents using mobile filming will be realised. With an activating method (e.g. concept maps) possible mobile-learning content has to be collected with the teenagers. This stage is flanked with semi-structured interviews and a review of private film and photo material (Bohnsack 2009). A project phase (14 -30 days) with a use of a media diary is following. The young people are asked to document their own video and photo production. All results of the survey will be reflected with the teenage participants.

Expected Outcomes

The author expects a clarification of the question, in which ways multimedia expression with mobile phones promotes technical, aesthetical and social competence of young adolescents. The design of the research process is wide open. Further research findings will be aggregated through the research itself. The process should help to answer the questions how visual media on mobile phones are used for learning. The thesis goal is to name potential areas of visual mobile learning.

References

• Bachmair, B., Friedrich K., Risch, M. (2011): Mobiles Lernen mit dem Handy : Herausforderung und Chance für den Unterricht, Weinheim: Beltz. • Buckingham, D. (2007): Beyond Technology. Children’s Learning in the Age of Digital Culture. Polity Press. • Bohnsack, B. (2009): Qualitative Bild- und Videointerpretation : die dokumentarische Methode, Opladen: Budrich. • Cook, J., Pachler, N., Bradley, C. (2008): Bridging the Gap? Mobile Phones at the Interface between Informal and Formal Learning. Retrieved from www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/Documents/LDN%20Final%20Report.pdf • Marsick, V. J.; Watkins, K. E. (2001). Informal and Incidental Learning. In: New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education Nr. 89. S. 25-34. • Nyíri, K. (2002). Towards a philosophy of m-learning. Proceedings of Wireless & Mobile Technologies in Education. Retrieved from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Paper/4325835.aspx. • Oksman, V. (2008) Mobile Video – Between Personal, Community and Mass Media. Hartman, M. & Höflich, J. R., After the Mobile Phone? Berlin: Frank & Timme. • Oksman V. (2010): A mobile phone: A medium in itself. VTT publications 737: http://www.vtt.fi/inf/pdf/publications/2010/P737.pdf. • Reuter, O. M. (2009): Mobile Bilder. Kinder und Jugendliche fotografieren und filmen mit dem Handy. München: kopaed verlags GmbH. • Pachler, N., Seipold, J. and Bachmair, B.(2012): The “My Mobile“ Handbook. Retrieved from http://www.mymobile-project.eu/IMG/pdf/Handbook_Considerations.pdf. • Struckmeyer, K. (2010): Handy – Potenziale und Probleme des Jugendmediums Nr.1. In: Cleppien/Lerche (Hrsg.): Soziale Arbeit und Medien. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.

Author Information

Tine Nowak (presenting / submitting)

Technische Universität Darmstadt

Media Education

Darmstadt

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