Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
The lives of Americas city youth are saturated with multiple forms of media that include film,
music, television, mobile media apps and video game soles; taken as a whole, youth spend the
majority of their waking lives as consumers and producers of media (Ito et al., 2009) (p. 7).
The power of new media in the lives of young people cannot be denied, and therefore, media
education needs to be more effectively implemented into K-12 curriculum in the United States
(Beach, Campano, & Edmiston, 2010; Kist, 2005) (p. 7).
the democratizing nature of media as facilitating modes of production and distribution of
youth counter-narratives (p. 7).
drawing on new media literacies increases student motivation and engagement and makes
connections between out-of-school literacies and classroom practice (p. 9).
Sociocultural theories of learning:
Learning must be: Active Authentic, Participatory, Empowering (p. 16).
Traditional education often encourages working-class students to participate as uncritical
consumers of state-sanctioned knowledge (Anyon, 1981; Freire, 1970) (p. 17).
Reading in a traditional sense:
Reading email
Reading content on websites
Reading electronic books on tablets
Reading popular culture
Cyberpunk culture/hacking (pp. 18-21)
Infrastructure Design, Programming
Digital filmmaking
Music production
Art production (pp. 24-27)
we were also remided of the generativity and everday brilliance of young people, and of
their power to weave together the narratives of their lives with multimodal threads of texts,
still images, film, and music (p. 27).