TY - CHAP
T1 - Mobile Learning Congruencies with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Philosophies
AU - Townsend, P
AU - Halsey, John
AU - Guenther, John
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - There has been a rapid and extensive uptake of mobile phones in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, regardless of mobile phone coverage or Internet access (Brady et al., 2008; Featherstone, 2011). Kral (2014, p. 6f) stated “people, predominantly young people, [are] buying laptops, mobile phones and even iPads or Tablets”. Recent figures indicate Australia wide, 70% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people own a smartphone, and in remote communities 43% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people own a smartphone (MIR, 2014). What fosters and nurtures this embracing of mobile technologies?
AB - There has been a rapid and extensive uptake of mobile phones in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, regardless of mobile phone coverage or Internet access (Brady et al., 2008; Featherstone, 2011). Kral (2014, p. 6f) stated “people, predominantly young people, [are] buying laptops, mobile phones and even iPads or Tablets”. Recent figures indicate Australia wide, 70% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people own a smartphone, and in remote communities 43% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people own a smartphone (MIR, 2014). What fosters and nurtures this embracing of mobile technologies?
U2 - 10.1007/978-94-6300-672-9
DO - 10.1007/978-94-6300-672-9
M3 - Chapter
T3 - Higher Education Horizons
SP - 25
EP - 32
BT - Publishing Higher Degree Research
PB - Sense Publishers
CY - Rotterdam
ER -