Presented at the Knight Foundation News Challenge Winners Conference, "The Future of Civic Media", MIT, Cambridge MA. June 2008.

1. learning in a participatory culture

2. our research question www.newmedialiteracies.org
What do young people need to know in
order to become full, active, creative,
critical, and ethically responsible participants
in a massively networked and media rich
global world?

3. our three core challenges www.newmedialiteracies.org
the transparency problem

4. our three core challenges www.newmedialiteracies.org
the participation gap
“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

5. our three core challenges www.newmedialiteracies.org
the participation gap

6. our three core challenges www.newmedialiteracies.org
the ethics challenge

7. theoretical framework www.newmedialiteracies.org
social skills & cultural competencies
play collective intelligence
simulation judgment
performance transmedia navigation
appropriation networking
multitasking negotiation
distributed cognition

8. practical applications www.newmedialiteracies.org
informed by theory
Learning Library
testing and development with local youth
partnerships to create & share local collections
Teachers’ Strategy Guide
testing and development with local teachers
Ethics Casebook
testing and development with local youth
partnership with Project Zero’s GoodPlay, Harvard

9. www.newmedialiteracies.org