Mobile Learning and STEM

<p>In recent years there has been a renewed focus on STEM education in the United States fueled by evidence that young learners’ competencies in science technology engineering and mathematics are falling behind those of their global peers.</p><p>Scholars and practitioners are beginning to utilize the new pedagogical opportunities offered by mobile learning to improve the successes of teachers and K-12 students across STEM subjects. <i>Mobile Learning and STEM: Case Studies in Practice </i>is a comprehensive collection of case studies that explore mobile learning’s support of STEM subjects and that utilize mobile technology to facilitate unique and effective K-12 teaching and learning experiences. In addition to its focus on STEM achievement for researchers this volume is a resource for teachers working to implement mobile learning initiatives into their classrooms.</p><p><em>Mobile Learning and STEM</em> also includes research that is applicable to classrooms in nations around the world where few students from underrepresented racial and socioeconomic backgrounds are entering into STEM jobs. Concluding with a summary of its research and its implications to future scholarship and practice this book is a springboard for practitioners specialists higher education instructors and researchers who want to establish better practices in schools and raise student achievement in STEM subjects.</p>