Conversation

Social interaction, conversation and dialogue are fundamental to Vygotskian learning. Sharing conversational spaces (e.g. Facebook, multi-user gaming environments) mediated by mobile devices, can be conducive to timely, personally tailored feedback from teachers, as well as rich peer interactions, leading to learners’ negotiated meaning-making. This aspect of Collaboration is referred to as conversation. 

Data Sharing

Learners can forge rich connections to other people (e.g. using social media apps) and the environment (e.g. using AR apps that exploit ‘The Internet of Things’) mediated by a mobile device. This high level of networking can potentially create shared, socially interactive environments (e.g. Twitter) where learners can conveniently communicate—often multi-modally—and exchange information and resources with peers, teachers and other experts. In these connected spaces, learners consume, produce and exchange an array of digital content (e.g. text and new media), sharing information and artefacts. Exchanged data files are typically learner generated and ‘just-in-existence’, enhancing the immediacy of the mobile learning experience. Indeed, the spontaneity of these communications and the currency of exchanged data are made possible by the accessibility and expectation of users inhabiting these spaces 24-7. This aspect of Collaboration is referred to as data sharing. ​