Learning Ecosystems

Learning in a Participatory Culture: A Conversation About New Media and Education (Part Three) — from newmedialiteracies.org by Henry Jenkins

Sections/sub-topics include:

• So far, we have been talking about new media, but it is clear that they do not replace the old ones.
• Therefore we need to use multiple media.
• Can we think then that schools lose many of learning opportunities supported by new media?
• Maybe your idea of transmedia phenomenon may be a way to explore opportunities offered by the media. For example, teaching students how to write narrative texts when using the Harry Potter books, movies or video games.
• And what about social networks, a new widespread medium of communication among young people and also among many adults?
• What is the role that these networks can play in schools?

Also see:

• Part one
• Part two