The second issue of the new digital media and learning journal from MIT Press, The International Journal of Learning and Media (IJLM) has been published. This provocative new issue features cutting-edge work from both established and new scholars working in the field. Valerie J. Shute looks at the problems of classroom assessments and how they may be undermining the learning process. James Paul Gee offers an overview of how this new multidisciplinary field of research on Digital Media and Learning came into being and points to how it may look in the future. Kathleen Tyner examines the importance of context for New Media Literacy. David Williamson Shaffer et al. explore the 21st Century problem of assessment of skills in digital learning environments and argue for an evidence-centered design approach. Brigid Barron et al. look at parent support of the development of new media skills and technological fluency. John Palfrey et al. present qualitative research conducted with “Digital Natives” that explores their understanding, attitudes, and discourse on the topic of digital creativity and copyright law.
Finally, in Part II of his article on the origins of Digital Media and Learning research, James Paul Gee offers several “worked examples” that can be used as models for how the discipline may move forward. This article is available for FREE at http://ijlm.net
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The International Journal of Learning and Media, Volume 1, Issue 2
Keywords
Simply Assessment
Valerie J. Shute
Digital Media and Learning as an Emerging Field: Part I: How We Got Here
James Paul Gee
Missives
Audiences, Intertextuality, and New Media Literacy
Kathleen Tyner
Formulations & Findings
Epistemic Network Analysis: A Prototype for 21st Century Assessment of Learning David Williamson Shaffer, David Hatfield, Gina Navoa Svarovsky, Padraig Nash, Aran Nulty, Elizabeth Bagley, Ken Frank, André A. Rupp, Robert Mislevy
Parents as Learning Partners in the Development of Technological Fluency
Brigid Barron, Caitlin Kennedy Martin, Lori Takeuchi, Rachel Fithian
Youth, Creativity and Copyright in the Digital Age
John Palfrey, Urs Gasser, Miriam Simun, Rosalie Fay Barnes
Knowing & Doing
Digital Media and Learning as an Emerging Field, Part II: A Proposal for How to Use “Worked Examples” to Move Forward
James Paul Gee
Six worked examples accompany this article. To learn more visit
http://ijlm.net/knowinganddoing/10.1162/ijlm.2009.0012
IJLM is published quarterly by The MIT Press, in partnership with the Monterey Institute for Technology in Education, and with support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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