Publications
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Engineering a Safer World
(2016)
A new approach to safety, based on systems thinking, that is more effective, less costly, and easier to use than current techniques.Engineering has experienced a technological revolution, but the basic engineering techniques ...
Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out
(2013)
An examination of young people's everyday new media practices—including video-game playing, text-messaging, digital media production, and social media use.Conventional wisdom about young people's use of digital technology ...
The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering
(2014)
Tools to make hard problems easier to solve.In this book, Sanjoy Mahajan shows us that the way to master complexity is through insight rather than precision. Precision can overwhelm us with information, whereas insight ...
Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets!
(2014)
An exploration of social movement media practices in an increasingly complex media ecology, through richly detailed cases of immigrant rights activism.For decades, social movements have vied for attention from the mainstream ...
Functional Differential Geometry
(2013)
An explanation of the mathematics needed as a foundation for a deep understanding of general relativity or quantum field theory.Physics is naturally expressed in mathematical language. Students new to the subject must ...
Measuring What Matters Most
(2013)
An argument that choice-based, process-oriented educational assessments are more effective than static assessments of fact retrieval.If a fundamental goal of education is to prepare students to act independently in the ...
The Future of the Curriculum
(2013)
An examination of curriculum innovations that are shaped by new ideas about digital media and learning.Although ideas about digital media and learning have become an important area for educational research, little attention ...
We Used to Wait
(2014)
An investigation of music videos as a form, a practice, and a literacy.Music videos were once something broadcast by MTV and received on our TV screens. Today, music videos are searched for, downloaded, and viewed on our ...
Participatory Politics
(2014)
An examination of the mix of face-to-face and digital methods that young people use in their experiments with civic engagement. Although they may disavow politics as such, civic-minded young people use every means and media ...
The Civic Potential of Video Games
(2009)
This report draws from the 2008 Pew Teens, Video Games, and
Civics Survey, a national survey of youth and their experiences
with video games done in partnership with Amanda Lenhart at
the Pew Internet and American Life ...