Next MSP2 Book Club Selection

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Permalink Reply by Rebecca Lawson on May 19, 2010 at 2:54pm

I don't have any to add. However, these look interesting. I checked them out on Amazon.

To me the first and 3rd one seem more interesting as an educator. However, once can't view enough pages to make a good decision.

Thanks for the suggestions!

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Permalink Reply by Sarita Pillai on May 25, 2010 at 9:55am

I've been meaning to read Shirky's book. I also like the idea of reading a really "meaty" article like the Data Driven Life one sent by MariaD.

A few other ideas - I havent read any of these, but here is Library Journal's list of top science-technology books for 2009: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6719408.html.

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Permalink Reply by Kim Lightle on June 10, 2010 at 10:38am

Here is another possibility - I really want us to pick a title so we can have some summer reading!

Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World by Don Tapscott

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Permalink Reply by Kim Lightle on June 10, 2010 at 11:04am

I found a couple more possibilities - has anybody read these?

Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser

Rewired: Understanding the iGeneration and the Way They Learn by Larry Rosen

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Permalink Reply by Kim Lightle on June 10, 2010 at 11:14am

I keep coming across these new books! This really is the last one - I have to go do something else...

The Young and the Digital: What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future by C. Craig Watkins

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Permalink Reply by Kim Lightle on June 24, 2010 at 11:02am

We have a winner - let's see what our students actually have to say about how they use technology - Hanging out, messing around, and geeking out : kids living and lear... / The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning. I just picked it up from my local library.

We'll meet online Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 7pm EST - http://tinyurl.com/participateMSP2 - put it on your calendar!

Here are the reviews from Amazon -

Review
"Mizuko Ito and her team have put together an extraordinarily perceptive series of essays about what it means to grow up in a digital era. They cut through the myths that cloud our conversations about 'kids these days' and what they are doing during long hours online and on mobile devices. Every parent, teacher, and librarian should read this book cover-to-cover. This is crucially important research, presented in clear and accessible prose."
—John Palfrey, co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University, author of Born Digital

"This is a beautifully written and extraordinarily rich account of perhaps the most important challenge cyberspace gives us: understanding how it is changing our kids, and how it might change our understanding of literacy. We've had clues about both before. But this is a critically important and deeply informed contribution to this essential subject of learning."
—Lawrence Lessig, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford University, author of The Future of Ideas and Remix

"Mimi Ito and her colleagues present a wealth of empirical research and scholarship that is quite breathtaking in its scope and diversity. They provide a range of rich and engaging descriptive case studies, but never lose sight of the broader themes and critical issues at stake. This book sets a very high standard for future scholarship in the field: it will be the inescapable reference point for many years to come."
—David Buckingham, Institute of Education, University of London, UK

"Finally a book that provides a deeply grounded and nuanced description of today's digital youth culture and practices as they negotiate their identity, their peer-based relationships, and their relationships with adults. Then, building on this rich and diverse set of ethnographies, the authors constructed a powerful analytic framework which provides new conceptual lenses to make sense of the emerging digital media landscape. This book is a must for anyone interested in youth culture, learning, and new media."
—John Seely Brown, Former Chief Scientist, Xerox Corporation, and Former Director of Xerox PARC
Product Description
Conventional wisdom about young people's use of digital technology often equates generational identity with technology identity: today's teens seem constantly plugged in to video games, social networks sites, and text messaging. Yet there is little actual research that investigates the intricate dynamics of youth's social and recreational use of digital media. Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out fills this gap, reporting on an ambitious three-year ethnographic investigation into how young people are living and learning with new media in varied settings—at home, in after school programs, and in online spaces. By focusing on media practices in the everyday contexts of family and peer interaction, the book views the relationship of youth and new media not simply in terms of technology trends but situated within the broader structural conditions of childhood and the negotiations with adults that frame the experience of youth in the United States.

Integrating twenty-three different case studies—which include Harry Potter podcasting, video-game playing, music-sharing, and online romantic breakups—in a unique collaborative authorship style, Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out is distinctive for its combination of in-depth description of specific group dynamics with conceptual analysis.

This book was written as a collaborative effort by members of the Digital Youth Project, a three-year research effort funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and conducted at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Southern California.

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