Publications
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Documenting and Assessing Learning in Informal and Media-Rich Environments
(2015)
An extensive review of the literature on learning assessment in informal settings, expert discussion of key issues, and a new model for good assessment practice. Today educational activities take place not only in school ...
Digital Media, Youth, and Credibility
(2007)
The difficulties in determining the quality of information on the Internet—in particular, the implications of wide access and questionable credibility for youth and learning.Today we have access to an almost inconceivably ...
Free Innovation
(2016)
A leading innovation scholar explains the growing phenomenon and impact of free innovation, in which innovations developed by consumers and given away “for free.”In this book, Eric von Hippel, author of the influential ...
Evaluation and Credentialing in Digital Music Communities
(2014)
An examination of the use of digital badges as a reward for both casual online music evaluators and professional musicians.Professional and amateur musicians alike use social media as a platform for showcasing and promoting ...
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 ...
Street-Fighting Mathematics
(2010)
An antidote to mathematical rigor mortis, teaching how to guess answers without needing a proof or an exact calculation.In problem solving, as in street fighting, rules are for fools: do whatever works—don't just stand ...
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 ...
The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age
(2009)
This John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Report is
a redaction of the argument in our book-in-progress, currently
titled The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age.
That book, to be published ...
New Digital Media and Learning as an Emerging Area and "Worked Examples" as One Way Forward
(2009)
A proposal to move the academic area of digital media and learning toward more coherence.In this report, noted scholar James Paul Gee discusses the evolution of digital media and learning (DMAL) from its infancy as an ...
Protecting Children Online?
(2018-03-02)
This book investigates regulatory and social pressures that social media companies face in the aftermath of high profile cyberbullying incidents. The author’s research evaluates the policies companies develop to protect ...