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MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning

This book series is founded upon the working hypothesis that those immersed in new digital tools and networks are engaged in an unprecedented exploration of language, games, social interaction, problem solving, and self-directed activity that leads to diverse forms of learning. This is reflected in expressions of identity, in how individuals express independence and creativity, and in their ability to learn, exercise judgment, and think systematically.

Connected Gaming

What Making Video Games Can Teach Us about Learning and Literacy
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How making and sharing video games offer educational benefits for coding, collaboration, and creativity.

Framing Internet Safety

The Governance of Youth Online
By

An examination of youth Internet safety as a technology of governance, seen in panics over online pornography, predators, bullying, and reputation management.

Connected Code

Why Children Need to Learn Programming
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Why every child needs to learn to code: the shift from “computational thinking” to computational participation.

Disconnected

Youth, New Media, and the Ethics Gap
By

How young people think about the moral and ethical dilemmas they encounter when they share and use online content and participate in online communities.

Education and Social Media

Toward a Digital Future
Edited by Christine Greenhow, Julia Sonnevend and Colin Agur

Leading scholars from a variety of disciplines explore the future of education, including social media usage, new norms of knowledge, privacy, copyright, and MOOCs.

Short Circuits

Crafting e-Puppets with DIY Electronics
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Tools and methods for creating electronic puppets.

Gaming the System

Designing with Gamestar Mechanic
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Understanding games as systems, with complex interactions of game elements and rules.

Soft Circuits

Crafting e-Fashion with DIY Electronics
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Introducing students to the world of wearable technology.

Script Changers

Digital Storytelling with Scratch
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Helping students create interactive and animated stories about positive change in their communities.

The Digital Youth Network

Cultivating Digital Media Citizenship in Urban Communities
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An ambitious project to help economically disadvantaged students develop technical, creative, and analytical skills across a learning ecology that spans school, community, home, and online.

The Civic Web

Young People, the Internet, and Civic Participation
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An investigation of how governments, organizations, and groups use the Internet to promote civic and political engagement among young people.

Connected Play

Tweens in a Virtual World
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How kids play in virtual worlds, how it matters for their offline lives, and what this means for designing educational opportunities.

Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out

Kids Living and Learning with New Media
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An examination of young people’s everyday new media practices—including video-game playing, text-messaging, digital media production, and social media use.

Engineering Play

A Cultural History of Children's Software
By

How the influential industry that produced such popular games as Oregon Trail and KidPix emerged from experimental efforts to use computers as tools in child-centered learning.

Civic Life Online

Learning How Digital Media Can Engage Youth
Edited by W. Lance Bennett

The relationship of participation in online communities to civic and political engagement.

Learning Race and Ethnicity

Youth and Digital Media
Edited by Anna Everett

An exploration of how issues of race and ethnicity play out in a digital media landscape that includes MySpace, post-9/11 politics, MMOGs, Internet music distribution, and the digital divide.

Digital Media, Youth, and Credibility

Edited by Miriam J. Metzger and Andrew J. Flanagin

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.

Youth, Identity, and Digital Media

Edited by David Buckingham

Contributors discuss how growing up in a world saturated with digital media affects the development of young people’s individual and social identities.

The Ecology of Games

Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning
Edited by Katie Salen Tekinbaş

An exploration of games as systems in which young people participate as gamers, producers, and learners.

Digital Youth, Innovation, and the Unexpected

Edited by Tara McPherson

How emergent practices and developments in young people’s digital media can result in technological innovation or lead to unintended learning experiences and unanticipated social encounters.