Research

New Media Literacies began as a research project in 2005 with funding from the MacArthur Foundation under the Digital Media and Learning Initiative. Since 2005, New Media Literacies has published an influential white paper, Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century, created a series of resources for educators including the Teacher's Strategy Guide, the Learning Library, and the Ethics Casebook, and conducted field research to support and iterate the development of these education resources.

An Invitation to Participate:  Worked Examples as Invitational Scholarship

At New Media Literacies, one of our goals is to invite educators at every level and discipline to participate in an on-going dialogue related to our research questions. We consider this dialogue as a process toward building a participatory form of scholarship that Barab, Dodge, and Gee call a worked example.

A worked example is a multimedia presentation of one or more key moments, findings, or interesting challenges or tensions that emerge out of field testing of educational materials. The name is intended to suggest that the "working" of the example--the building of something approximating the experience of the curriculum or moment and through that process new ideas emerge and are investigated--is a crucial element of synthesis of data.

As we work toward creating our worked examples to synthesize and summarize our field research, we invite educators to participate and contribute to our on-going dialogue and help us grapple with exactly what it is that we see and learn from our field data and
field experience.

To this end, you are invited to join in a series of conversations around the development of New Media Literacies educational resources and our field work. Each of the links below will direct you to a conversation of a topic crucial to our understanding of effect of new digital media on today's learning environments. Each discussion will highlight evidence and collected artifacts from our field research to support and initiate dialogues. Please feel free to browse and participate. Any constructive comments, critiques, suggestions, and references are welcome.

Currently, we invite your participation in two series of conversations:

Learning Library

Teachers' Strategy Guides