Education and Social Media - Toward a Digital Future (Paperback)

Leading scholars from a variety of disciplines explore the future of education, including social media usage, new norms of knowledge, privacy, copyright, and MOOCs. How are widely popular social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram transforming how teachers teach, how kids learn, and the very foundations of education? What controversies surround the integration of social media in students' lives? The past decade has brought increased access to new media, and with this new opportunities and challenges for education. In this book, leading scholars from education, law, communications, sociology, and cultural studies explore the digital transformation now taking place in a variety of educational contexts. The contributors examine such topics as social media usage in schools, online youth communities, and distance learning in developing countries; the disruption of existing educational models of how knowledge is created and shared; privacy; accreditation; and the tension between the new ease of sharing and copyright laws. Case studies examine teaching media in K-12 schools and at universities; tuition-free, open education powered by social media, as practiced by the University of the People; new financial models for higher education; the benefits and challenges of MOOCS (Massive Open Online Courses); social media and teacher education; and the civic and individual advantages of teens' participatory play. Contributors Colin Agur, Jack M. Balkin, Valerie Belair-Gagnon, danah boyd, Nicholas Bramble, David Buckingham, Chris Dede, Benjamin Gleason, Christine Greenhow, Daniel J. H. Greenwood, Jiahang Li, Yite John Lu, Minhtuyen Mai, John Palfrey, Ri Pierce-Grove, Adam Poppe, Shai Reshef, Julia Sonnevend, Mark Warschauer

General

Imprint:	MIT Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning
Release date:	May 2016
First published:	2016
Editors:	Christine Greenhow (Assistant Professor) • Julia Sonnevend (Assistant Professor) • Colin Agur (Assistant Professor)
Contributors:	Jack Balkin • Julia Sonnevend (Assistant Professor) • Mark Warschauer (Professor) • Danah Boyd (Principal Researcher) • Colin Agur (Assistant Professor) • Valerie Belair-Gagnon • Chris Dede
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	257
ISBN-13:	978-0-262-52904-4
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Social sciences > Education > Educational resources & technology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-262-52904-1
Barcode:	9780262529044

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