The document discusses the rise of mobility and how it has changed how people live, learn, and connect through media. It notes that mobility allows people to be connected anytime, anywhere through mobile devices. Mobility has especially impacted Generation M, who spend over 6 hours per day on mobile media and are heavy multitaskers. The conclusion states that mobility has changed how people live, learn, and stay connected through media, and that media will continue to change how information is learned and absorbed.
Mobility means having the ability to be connected, anytime, anywhere, anyplace. Having universal access to the communication tools, information and applications you rely on to be productive, regardless of where you are and what device you have access to at the time.
M stands for Media and in some cases Mobile. The M Generation are individuals who spend a considerable amount of time using Media.
According to a study conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation in 2005, Generation M: Media in the lives of 8-18 year olds, young people today live in media-saturated lives, spending an average of nearly 6.5 hrs a day with media. That is 44.5hrs a week consume in media. The study also found that young people are heavily multitasking, using more than one media at a time, actually exposing them to an equivalent of 8.5hrs.
3 out of every 10 people now have mobile devices. Text Messaging has become the largest data application on the planet.
The way technology is used in education depends on the instructor’s underlying conception of learning. Can learning be delivered on small screens? What implications are we making as it relates to integrating mobile devices in the way we teach? In what ways can we integrate devices such as gps (global position systems), pda (personal digital assistants), cell phones and Mobile Internet Platform into our curriculums and Instructions?