Mobile Learning Detractors

Mobile technologies are commonplace in our society, with more than 4.5 billion mobile cells registered worldwide in 2009. With so much available equipment, learning solutions providers have a long history of experiments concerning the delivery of information to a specific user, preferable in any location he might be. Although after 20 years of serious experiments we are still... experimenting, mobile learning seems to be the next best thing in education, except for those who dismiss it as a fad. This paper deals with this latter point of view, not necessarily rebutting it, but trying to see whether the arguments are like the fabled sour grapes of those who did not understand the paradigm or there is really something wrong with adding mobility to education.