{"title":"Educational Technology Goes Mobile: Why? A Case Study of Finland","authors":"Antti Pirhonen, Rebekah A. Rousi","doi":"10.4018/IJMHCI.2018040104","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Recentdecadeshaverevealedthatthedigitaleducationaltechnologythatisexpectedtorevolutionise schoolingforgenerationstocome,isfraughtwithchallenges.Onemajorchallengeisthateducational systemsvastlyvarybetweenculturesandcountries.Thedifferencesstartfromtheconceptualisation ofeducationandschool.Itis,therefore,quiteinaccuratetohandleeducationasauniversalconcept. Inthisarticletheauthorsevadegeneralisationbydiscussingtheuseofmobiletechnologyintheschoolsofonesingle,relativelyhomogenousnation:Finland.Thebackboneoftheiranalysisisthe corenationalcurriculumofbasiceducation.Theappropriatenessofmobiletechnologyintheschool contextisreflecteduponthroughtheobjectivesandethosofbasiceducation.Theconclusionsare discussedintermsoftheircontributiontotheunderstandingoftheusecultureofmobiletechnology.","PeriodicalId":43100,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction","volume":"56 1","pages":"65-73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2018-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJMHCI.2018040104","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"COMPUTER SCIENCE, CYBERNETICS","Score":null,"Total":0}