Learning and Schooling in the Age of Mobilism.

Abstract

Introduction: The Times Are Changing Technology drives change. What is more interesting, of course, is the change in history’s direction that advances in technology bring about. For example, China is currently undergoing a course-changing shift—from people living in rural settings to mass migrations into cities. Because the construction industry can erect hi-rise apartment buildings at low cost veritably overnight, new cities are being born in China at an unprecedented, history-changing rate. At the other end of the scale, new materials and new construction methods are shrinking our electronic devices to unprecedented levels. Here we argue that the shrinking of electronic devices to handheld size is engendering one of those course-changing shifts in history of a magnitude greater than the hyper speed urbanization of China. The world is entering into the Age of Mobilism. That 1/3 inch thick slab of glass-encased aluminum that serves as the on-ramp to the Global—if not Intergalactic— Information Superhighway, is changing everything at Learning and Schooling in the Age of Mobilism