Measuring What Matters Most

Daniel L Schwartz, Dylan Arena

• Paperback | Engels | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning
• An argument that choice-based, process-oriented educational assessments are more effective than static assessments of fact retrieval. If a fundamental... Lees meer

Stealth Assessment

Valerie Shute, Matthew Ventura

• Paperback | Engels | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning
• An approach to performance-based assessments that embeds assessments in digital games in order to measure how students are progressing toward targeted... Lees meer

Living and Learning with New Media

Mizuko Ito, Heather A Horst, Matteo Bittanti, Danah Boyd, Becky Herr Stephenson, Patricia G Lange, C J Pascoe, Laura Robinson

• Paperback | Engels | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning
• This report summarizes the results of an ambitious three-year ethnographic study, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, into ho... Lees meer

Engineering Play

Mizuko Ito

• Hardcover | Engels | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning
• How the influential industry that produced such popular games as Oregon Trail and KidPix emerged from experimental efforts to use computers as tools i... Lees meer

Learning Race and Ethnicity

• Paperback | Engels | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning
• 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 mu... Lees meer

The Future of Thinking

Cathy N Davidson, David Theo Goldberg

• Paperback | Engels | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning
• How traditional learning institutions can become as innovative, flexible, robust, and collaborative as the best social networking sites. Over the past... Lees meer

New Digital Media and Learning as an Emerging Area and "worked Examples" as One Way Forward

James Paul Gee

• Paperback | Engels | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning
• 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 e... Lees meer

Kids and Credibility

Andrew J Flanagin, Miriam J Metzger

• Paperback | Engels | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning
• Findings from a survey of youthful Internet users that was designed to assess kids' beliefs about the credibility of online information. How well do c... Lees meer

Participatory Politics

Elisabeth Soep

• Paperback | Engels | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning
• 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 disa... Lees meer

The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age

Cathy N Davidson, David Theo Goldberg

• Paperback | Engels | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning
• In this report, Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg focus on the potential for shared and interactive learning made possible by the Internet. They ... Lees meer

The Civic Potential of Video Games

Joseph Kahne, Ellen Middaugh, Chris Evans

• Paperback | Engels | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning
• This report focuses on the civic aspects of video game play among youth. According to a 2006 survey, 58 percent of young people aged 15 to 25 were civ... Lees meer

Script Changers

Kylie Peppler, Rafi Santo, Melissa Gresalfi, Katie Salen Tekinbas

• Hardcover | Engels | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning
• Helping students create interactive and animated stories about positive change in their communities. Script Changers shows the ways that stories offer... Lees meer

Digital Youth, Innovation, and the Unexpected

• Paperback | Engels | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning
• How emergent practices and developments in young people's digital media can result in technological innovation or lead to unintended learning experien... Lees meer

Peer Participation and Software

David R Booth

• Paperback | Engels | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning
• An examination of Mozilla's unique approach to software development considers how this model of participation might be applied to political and civic ... Lees meer