Log on education: Handheld devices are ready-at-hand

By Elliot Soloway, Cathleen A. Norris, Phyllis Blumenfeld, Barry J. Fishman, Joseph Krajcik, Ronald Marx. Communications of the ACM, 2001

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Inventing a “Mid Level” to Make Ends Meet: Reasoning between the Levels of Complexity (2008, unknown): “…& Zola, 2000; Resnick, 1994; Wilensky, 1995, 1997a, b, 1999a; Wilensky & Reisman, 2006; Wilensky & Resnick, 1999) and through role-playing participatory simulations (Colella, 2000; Klopfer, Yoon, & Perry, 2005; Resnick & Wilensky, 1998; Soloway et al., 2001; Wilensky & Stroup, 1999a, c, 2000).”
EcoMOBILE: Integrating augmented reality and probeware with environmental education field trips (2013, methodology): “Feedback from the teachers suggested that the type of engagement observed was in using the devices as “ready-to-hand” (Soloway, Norris, Blumenfeld & Fishman, 2001), which is a concept initially conceived by Heidegger (1927/1973) and described by Pea and Maldonado (2006) as “a condition of…”
Designing collaborative, constructionist and contextual applications for handheld devices (2006, background): “While these statements might reflect a certain naive degree of optimism, or worse a simply technological determinist viewpoint, given the ‘‘ready-at-hand’’ nature of these devices there are sound reasons to believe that wireless portable technology will have a role to play in the way we learn (Naism”
The Learning Return on Our Educational Technology Investment: A Review of Findings from Research. (2002, background): “…for every four students enrolled, one Pentium or Power Macintosh for every six students, one CD-ROM-equipped computer for every six students, and . . . at least half of all instructional rooms connected to the Internet by a high-speed, direct connection” (Becker, quoted in Soloway et al., 2001).”
The Design and Implementation of a Mobile Learning Resource (2002, background): “Further work is needed to determine whether a display of that size can support useful learning, but digital cameras and idea map tools ( Soloway et al., 2001 ) are already available for PDA devices.”
Using mobile phones in English education in Japan (2005, background): “A number of studies assert the convenience and usability of mobile devices as instructional delivery tools for text and images (Sharples 2000; Ericsson 2001; Gustavsson et al. 2001; Ring 2001; Rodriguez et al. 2001; Soloway et al. 2001).”
Mad City Mystery: Developing Scientific Argumentation Skills with a Place-based Augmented Reality Game on Handheld Computers (2007, background): “Technological advances—particularly ubiquitous broadband Internet access, low cost desktop computers, and portable computing technologies (iPods, cellphones, PDAs)—make information readily accessible, so that with the press of a button anyone with an Internet-enabled cellphone can access libraries o”