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Documenting the Digital Generation

23. July 2009

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Documenting the Digital Generation

The George Lucas Educational Foundation recently launched an exciting new website — Digital Generation – which offers a wealth of videos which will be relevant to anyone who wants to better understand the new media literacies, participatory culture, and young people’s online lives, themes which recur here with great frequency. I have been looking the [...]

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Participatory Learning vs. De-schooling, De-skilling, and De-valuing

15. July 2009

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In another outstanding video from Edutopia’s Educator page of the Digital Generation Project, Henry Jenkins, participatory media guru and Director of MIT’s Comparative Media Studies Program discusses “this new media landscape” and its implications for learning, teaching, and integrating media literacy.  He challenges us as educators and participants in media to look beyond “natives vs. [...]

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“Geeking Out” for Democracy (Part 2)

26. May 2009

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“Geeking Out” for Democracy (Part 2)

This article is cross-posted on Confessions of an Aca-Fan. You can read Part 1 here. A close look at the recent presidential election shows that young people are more politically engaged now than at any point since the end of the Vietnam War era. 54.5 percent of Americans ages 18 to 29 voted last November, [...]

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“Geeking Out” For Democracy (Part 1)

11. May 2009

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“Geeking Out” For Democracy (Part 1)

This article is cross-posted on Confessions of an Aca-Fan. On the eve of our conference at MIT on “Learning in a Participatory Culture,” Cable in the Classroom has joined forces with Project New Media Literacies to edit a special issue of Threshold which centers on the work we’ve been doing and the vision behind it. [...]

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