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Indlæser... Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning)af Henry Jenkins
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Henry Jenkins and his co-writers, in "Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture," engage us in a book-length exploration regarding "core social skills and cultural competencies" for anyone interested in being "full, active, creative, and ethical participants in this emerging participatory culture." The book (available free online as well as in a printed edition) is well worth reading for its concise descriptions of those skills; for the examples provided at the end of each section; and for the summary of those elements on pages 105-106: play, performance, simulation, appropriation, multitasking, distributed cognition, collective intelligence, judgment, transmedia navigation, networking, and negotiation. More importantly, the writers conclude the book with a reminder of why digital literacy is important: to "ensure that all students benefit from learning in ways that allow them to participate fully in public, community, [creative,] and economic life..." What is a participatory culture? Jenkins defines it as the young people of the nation who have discovered content creation such as those creating music and putting it on YouTube, video creators, bloggers, writers of fan fiction and all manner of other creations most often done as individuals or small groups and publishing on the Web. Note the various skills Jenkins says that these young people need in order to be really successful: “Play The capacity to experiment with the surroundings as a form of problem solving; Performance The ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation and discovery; Simulation The ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real-world processes; Appropriation The ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content; Multitasking The ability to scan the environment and shift focus onto salient details; Distributed cognition The ability to interact meaningfully with tools that expand mental capacities; Collective intelligence The ability to pool knowledge and com pare notes with others toward a common goal; Judgment The ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information sources; Transmedia navigation The ability to follow the flow of stories and information across multiple modalities; Networking The ability to search for, synthesize, and disseminate information; Negotiation The ability to travel across diverse communities, discerning and respecting multiple perspectives, and grasping and following alternative norms.” Jenkins then explores this whole world and the idea of adults becoming mentors. For teacher librarians, here is an important mix of skills to add to those proposed in 21st century skills lists. Knowing this segment of the rising generation is one thing, but becoming their mentors is quite another. It is a challenge that teacher librarians must not shrink from. A must read. It's now available as an ebook on the MIT press portal http://mitpress-ebooks.mit.edu/product/confronting-challenges-participatory-cult... ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
Shifting the conversation about the "digital divide" from questions of technological access to questions about opportunities for being involved in participatory culture and acquiring the necessary skills. No library descriptions found. |
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Many teens today who use the Internet are actively involved in participatory cultures—joining online communities (Facebook, message boards, game clans), producing creative work in new forms (digital sampling, modding, fan videomaking, fan fiction), working in teams to complete tasks and develop new knowledge (as in Wikipedia), and shaping the flow of media (as in blogging or podcasting). A growing body of scholarship suggests potential benefits of these activities, including opportunities for peer-to-peer learning, development of skills useful in the modern workplace, and a more empowered conception of citizenship. Fostering these skills, the authors argue, requires a systemic approach to media education; schools, afterschool programs, and parents all have distinctive roles to play.