Content tagged "education"
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CMS Director Henry Jenkins Speaks with Mediasnackers
In this Mediasnackers podcast, Jenkins discusses such topics as the current youth media climate and the growing divide between young people and educators.
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CMS Director Henry Jenkins talks with Business Week about New Media Literacies and the MacArthur Foundation
“While educators used to worry about the ‘digital divide’, they should now consider the ‘participation gap’.”
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Communicative 2.0: Video Games and Digital Culture in the Foreign Language Classroom
Two core concepts in youth entertainment that will increasingly become central in future attempts to design affordable foreign language learning materials.
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NML Teaches Transmedia Storytelling Skills
The New Media Literacies (NML) initiative begins 2006 with a project prototype focused on transmedia storytelling, starting with the curious-looking alien characters from the original ‘cantina’ scene from Star Wars IV.
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Unschooling Media: Participatory Practices among Progressive Homeschoolers
The attitudes, beliefs and practices related to media and technology in the unschooling subculture.
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Sam Ford Discusses CMS at NPCA/ACA Conference
Sam Ford, S.M., ’07 Graduate student Sam Ford (2007) was a member of the panel “The Perils and Promise of Interdisciplinarity” on Friday, April 14.
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In Medias Res, Spring 2006
Reports coming from our alumnae demonstrates that our community has done very well indeed. Graduates have delivered on our goal of applied humanism.
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LA Times on Gaming Programs in Academia
“Jenkins is one of many university professors who draw the comparison between today’s emerging interactive entertainment curriculum and the film schools that emerged in the ’70s.”
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Education Arcade Works with MPT on “Learning Games To Go”
Maryland Public Television has announced that CMS’s Education Arcade is among the key partners in their new initiative, “Learning Games To Go”.
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Revolutionizing History Education: Using Augmented Reality Games to Teach Histories
I designed “Reliving the Revolution” as a model for using AR games to teach historic inquiry, decision-making, and critical thinking skills.
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Video Games and Education
In this interview for TechNation, Dr. Moira Gunn interviews Dr. Henry Jenkins and learns how he thinks video games will revolutionize education.
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In Medias Res, Fall 2004
“Because of our interest in the communities that form around games, we are positioned to examine the informal learning that occurs outside of school spaces.”
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In Medias Res, Summer 2004
If MIT was going to be one of the leaders in the world in terms of the development of new media and communications technology, then it also had to become a leader in understanding the social and cultural impact of those technologies.
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New Models for Teaching and Learning, Grow Up with Generation.org
MIT’s Program in Comparative Media Studies Launches Efforts to Explore the Future of Educational Media.
