Game 2 Engage: Using iPads to Mediate and Develop Social Relationships in College Learning

CAINE, Jamie, DAVIES, Julia and WILLIAMS, Bronwyn T. (2017). Game 2 Engage: Using iPads to Mediate and Develop Social Relationships in College Learning. In: BURNETT, Cathy, MERCHANT, Guy, SIMPSON, Alyson and WALSH, Maureen, (eds.) The Case of the iPad : Mobile Literacies in Education. Springer, 143-158.

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Abstract

This paper describes a project which focused on two groups of post 16 college students working together using a range of iPad applications. The potential of digital technologies to engage students in the curriculum has been prolifically documented. Less is known about how technologies might help students engage with each other. In this paper, we suggest iPads can mediate and enhance new relationships between distinct cohorts of students and thus create new opportunities for social learning. This research reveals how the specifics of the design and materiality of iPads affect the nature of the relationships amongst research participants both within and beyond the literacy classroom, and how a range of applications can be used to perform ‘social networking’ both on and offline.

Item Type: Book Section
Additional Information: ID=124
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: Cultural Communication and Computing Research Institute > Communication and Computing Research Centre
Departments - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: Faculty of Science, Technology and Arts > Department of Computing
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4364-2_9
Page Range: 143-158
Depositing User: Jamie Caine
Date Deposited: 06 Apr 2018 07:56
Last Modified: 18 Mar 2021 15:19
URI: https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/19098

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