Good Reception - Teens, Teachers, and Mobile Media in a Los Angeles High School

A year in the life of a ninth-grade English class shows how participatory culture and mobile devices can transform learning in schools. Schools and school districts have one approach to innovation: buy more technology. In ; Garcia charts a year in the life of his ninth-grade English class, first surveying mobile media use on campus and then documenting a year-long experiment in creating a “wireless critical pedagogy” by incorporating mobile media and games in classroom work. He describes the design and implementation of “Ask Anansi,” an alternate reality game that allows students to conduct inquiry-based research around questions that interest them (including “Why is the food at South Central High School so bad?”). Garcia cautions that the transformative effect on education depends not on the glorification of devices but on teacher support and a trusting teacher-student relationship.

Product details

• Authors: Antero Garcia, Garcia Antero
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.06.2022
• EAN: 9780262545785
• ISBN: 978-0-262-54578-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Secondary Schools, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society