Social Interaction is a vital part of learning

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The following is an abstract of a paper by Jacobs and Polson that explores the need for social interaction in a childs education.

In this paper, the authors contend that the strategies so far pursued in embedding mobile and social learning in to a curriculum framework have been implicitly flawed. Rather than allowing pedagogy to direct and shape educational experiences delivered via these emergent technology devices, the authors believe there needs to be stronger focus on the interaction between players in a learning context, including the pedagogue and standard information resources, but also accommodating further expert input/commentary and protocols that facilitate negotiated and evolutionary understanding. Interaction design aspects associated with engagement in learning need to be given greater consideration, in order to accommodate the benefits of these diverse technologies. Furthermore, testing and assessment processes for learning need to be adapted to accommodate the skills development directly associated with the particular learning channel. The paper is structured to demonstrate the ubiquity of mobile and social technologies and the need to acknowledge a ‘natural use’ for such technologies in learning and teaching. The authors assess the validity of arguments promoting Web 2.0 technologies in the context on interaction design models. They then present case studies in mobile and social learning, which aim to demonstrate the necessity of interaction design principles in planning curriculum and learning facilitation strategies. Finally, they propose a model for planning of teaching and learning by maximising the interactive effectiveness of emergent mobile and social technologies