Henry Jenkins is a friend and a long-time scholar in digital media. His career has spanned three decades and has become known as the eminent scholar for digital media and learning initiative sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation. Just to give you a brief idea about his background, here are a couple links:
In this short interview, Dr. Jenkins explains his views on media and participatory culture
But the reason we are linking to him is not about him. In 2006, he was commissioned to write a White Paper about current trends in teaching and learning. This paper is known as the seminal summery of what makes today’s media centric students tick. It is an important piece of work that we must investigate if we are to learn anything about interaction design.
JENKINS_WHITE_PAPER
Of course when you read the white paper you will have some new impressions along with things you already knew. The idea here is to post a reflection for your classmates that indicate the things that struck you as interesting and new.
A current trend in journal publishing today is the addition of what are known as practitioners’ notes. These help the authors and readers focus on the importance of the piece as well as frame the discussion. These same focusing questions are very useful for our follow up discussions on the readings. I paraphrase these three concepts below:
- What you already knew about this topic
- What this reading adds
- Implications for practice and/or policy (in our case designing interactive learning environments.
Post your comments in the drop box found in Canvas.
I am particularly interested in your thoughts about the effect of interactivity in teaching and learning and appropriation, copy rights, and remixing. Post your reflections. Next cycle you will be assigned four other’s posts to respond to. Hopefully, an enlightening dialog will take place.