ERIC Number: ED516351
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Feb
Pages: 136
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ISBN: ISBN-978-1-1180-0959-8
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New Media and Technology. New Directions for Youth Development, No. 128
Bers, Marina Umaschi
Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley
This volume contains the following papers: (1) Beyond Computer Literacy: Supporting Youth's Positive Development through Technology (Marina Umaschi Bers); (2) Educational Technology, Reimagined (Michael Eisenberg); (3) Children as Codesigners of New Technologies: Valuing the Imagination to Transform What Is Possible (Allison Druin); (4) Content Creation in Virtual Worlds to Support Adolescent Identity Development (Laura M. Beals); (5) Youth as Content Producers in a Niche Social Network Site (Christine Greenhow); (6) YouTube as a Participatory Culture (Clement Chau); (7) Making Projects, Making Friends: Online Community as Catalyst for Interactive Media Creation (Karen Brennan, Andres Monroy-Hernandez and Mitchel Resnick); (8) Augmenting Your Own Reality: Student Authoring of Sciencebased Augmented Reality Games (Eric Klopfer and Josh Sheldon); (9) Developing Technological Initiatives for Youth Participation and Local Community Engagement (Leo Burd); (10) "MXing It Up": How African Adolescents May Affect Social Change through Mobile Phone Use (Christopher M. Napolitano); and (11) El Silencio: A Rural Community of Learners and Media Creators (Claudia Urrea). An index is also included.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Social Change, Educational Technology, Computer Literacy, Social Networks, Adolescent Development, Child Development, Web Sites, Video Technology, Computer Mediated Communication, Internet, Multimedia Materials, Computer Simulation, Games, Science Activities, Program Development, Community Involvement, Handheld Devices, Influence of Technology, Rural Environment
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Publication Type: Books; Collected Works - General
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Africa
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