Media in Transition 6: stone and papyrus, storage and transmission
What are the implications of the tension between storage and transmission for education, for individual and national identities, for notions of what is public and what is private?
What are the implications of the tension between storage and transmission for education, for individual and national identities, for notions of what is public and what is private?
Comparative Media Studies and Project New Media Literacies will host a one-day conference at MIT, Building 6-120, from 8:30 am to 5 pm on Saturday May 2, 2009.
Marina Bers discusses how the Positive Technological Development framework may offer a possible path to help children out of the playpens into the playgrounds of this technological era.
This talk by Marina Bers will focus on digital spaces to support positive youth development.
Marina Bers is author of Blocks to Robots: Learning with Technology in the Early Childhood Classroom (Teachers College Press, 2007) and creator of the system Zora.
John Hartley on recent developments in the field of cultural and media studies, including an account of changes in the economy, culture and technology, and consequent initiatives in educational provision for the creative industries.
Al Filreis has taught his "ModPo" course at Penn for years; in Fall 2012 he offered a 10-week version of the course online, via Coursera.