Anna van Someren and Henry Jenkins co-developed this presentation, which was used as the standard New Media Literacies keynote presentation at many 2008 events.
Learning In a Participatory Culture: Debunking the Myth of Digital Natives
1. Anna van Someren
Comparative Media Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
projectNML
connect communicate create collaborate
project new media literacies: education in a participatory culture
22. our view: three core challenges
“Increasingly, children and young people are divided
into those for whom the internet is an increasingly
rich, diverse, engaging and stimulating resource of
growing importance in their lives and those for whom
it remains a narrow, unengaging, if occasionally useful,
resource of rather less significance.”
- Sonia Livingstone, 2005
the participation gap