【正文】 sing RSS is ResearchBased ? Dr. Henry Jenkins ? Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT ? ―Confronting the Challenges of a Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century‖ ? Participatory culture and its implications for learning in the 21st century (RSS is all about participation, working, and munity) ? 21st century skills and literacies (applied skills students need to be school, work, and life ready) 21st Century Participatory Culture ? Relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement ? Strong support for creating and sharing one’s creations with others ? Some type of informal mentorship whereby what is known by the most experienced is passed along to novices Confronting the Challenges of a Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century 21st Century Participatory Culture ? Members believe that their contributions matter ? Members feel some degree of social connection with one another (at the least they care what other people think about what they have created) Confronting the Challenges of a Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century Implications ? A growing body of scholarship suggests potential benefits of these forms of participatory culture, including: ? opportunities for peertopeer learning, ? a changed attitude toward intellectual property, ? the diversification of cultural expression, ? the development of skills valued in the modern workplace, and a more empowered conception of citizenship. Confronting the Challenges of a Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century Implications ? Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to munity involvement. ? The new literacies almost all involve social skills developed through collaboration and working. ? These skills build on the foundation of traditional literacy, research skills, technical skills, and critical analysis skills taught in the classroom. Confronting the Challenges of a Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century The New Literacies ? Play — the capacity to experiment with one’s surroundings as a form of problemsolving ? Performance — the ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation and discovery ? Simulation — the ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of realworld processes ? Appropriation — the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content Confronting the Challenges of a Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century The New Literacies ? Multitasking — the ability to scan one’s environment and shift focus as needed to salient details. ? Distributed Cognition — the ability to interact meaningfully with tools that expand mental capacities ? Collective Intelligence — the ability to pool knowledge and pare notes with others toward a mon goal ? Judgment — the ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information sources Confronting the Challenges of a Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century The New Literacies ? Transmedia Navigation — the ability to follow the flow of stories and information across multiple modalities ? Networking — the ability to search for,