Writing Visually: YouTube, New Media Literacy, and the College Admissions Race

In this fascinating post, scholar S. Craig Watkins, author of  The Young and the Digital: What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future, argues  why “more educators should begin taking the new media practices of young students more seriously.”

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Henry Jenkins TEDxNYED Talk: Participation, Literacy, and Civic Engagement

Listen to Henry Jenkins discuss participatory culture, new media literacies, and civic engagement at the March 2010 TEDxNYED event.