Handheld Learning - learning with mobile and ubiquitous technologies

Ok...after some time considering research into mobile learning I think I may have found a suitable topic: The impact of digital mobility on conversational learning. Blurb below - all comments appreciated:

Over recent years, studies of mobile learning have apprised digital mobility and the emerging pedagogies; seeing the transition of focus from mobile technologies to the mobility of the learner. However, projects and educational practice making use of mobile and ubiquitous technologies are as diverse as the technologies themselves, each taking individual approaches, drawing on differing personal perspectives and even differing understandings of what mobile learning is. One commonality however, is the informed movement towards connecting learners and thus we can begin to draw on a theory of mobile learning as ‘the processes of coming to know through conversations across multiple contexts amongst people and personal interactive technologies’ (Sharples et al. 2007). So fundamental to effective mobile learning is the engagement in social dialogue and conversational learning. But what is the impact of digital mobility on conversational learning? This study will investigate this as a research question, drawing on existing research into conversational learning and making comparisons between the quality of dialogue given mobile and static learners.
Michael Wilkinson

Hi Jocelyn (et al),

Ref: Sharples et al 2007 - Google turned up 130,000 hits, of which presumably 129,000+ would be irrelevant.  However there are potentially useful references in the M-Learning conference call for papers (http://www.mlearning-conf.org/cfp.asp), and a possible contact at Birmingham University, viz: Susan Bull (http://www.eee.bham.ac.uk/bull/) who may be able to give more direct clarification.  HTH