In 2008-2009, Project New Media Literacies tested the Media Makers Challenge Collection, a set of 30 challenges to explore and practice the new media literacies. This collection was established as a springboard for educators to adopt the new media literacies into their own situation. Media educators from Global Kids used the materials as inspiration to develop Media Masters, an after-school program at the High School for Global Citizenship to integrate the new media literacies into a social issues learning environment. Media Masters helped learners acquire and reflect upon digital media production and analytic skills through youth engagement in participatory media and Web 2.0 tools. This presentation will explore how theory and practice merged to create a conversation, rather than a top-down transfer of knowledge, between participating researchers, practitioners and students.

1. Mad Skills
Making New Media Skills Accessible to Students and
Teachers Alike
Erin Reilly
Research Director
Project New Media Literacies
USC Annenberg School for Communication
ebreilly @twitter
www.newmedialiteracies.org
and
Flourish Klink
Research Assistant / CMS grad student
Project New Media Literacies
MIT

3. • Play
• Performance
• Simulation
• Appropriation
• Multitasking
• Distributed Cognition
• Collective Intelligence
• Judgment
• Transmedia Navigation
• Networking
• Negotiation
• Visualization

4. A tool that houses multimedia learning “challenges” to explore and practice
the new media literacies and provides a platform for creating user-generated
learning activities by teachers and students. © 2009 Project New Media Literacies

5. 1. Concept
2. Concept in context
3. Your turn
4. What do you think?
Challenge Framework

6. http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/5344-3d

11. Learning is situational
rather than universal.

13. Learning is transmedia
rather than unified and
self-contained.

14. http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/5352-6b-rafi-on-ice-breakers

15. Learning is collaborative
rather than hierarchical.

16. http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/5360-8a

17. Learning is emergent
rather than pre-
structured.

18. http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/5364-9b

20. http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/5354-6b-shawna-on-adaptation

21. http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/5348-4c-2

22. http://projectnml.ning.com