Many thanks to Texas school librarian Donna Bills for pointing me via Twitter to these terrific and free readings from the MacArthur Foundation that can be accessed either with your Kindle or Kindle App for iPhone, Blackberry, Mac, or PC! Here is a sampling of the free reports you can read via Kindle or Kindle app:
- Young People, Ethics, and the New Digital Media: A Synthesis from the Good Play Project
- Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century
- New Digital Media and Learning as an Emerging Area and “Worked Examples” as One Way Forward
- The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age
- The Civic Potential of Video Games
Libraries and Transliteracy 
June 15, 2010 at 10:42 am
[…] Amazon has a “Free books collection” which includes Popular Classics and my favorite Limited-time Promotional Offers. I check these about once a week, some of the titles you see there are no longer available for free. There is a lot of fiction in there and I occasionally grab one in case I want something to read later, but mostly I’m after the non-fiction. The reports from the MacAurthor Foundation were the first things I grabbed and Buffy later blogged them. […]
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May 22, 2010 at 11:05 pm
Thank you!!!! This is great info!