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Wednesday 29th April 2009 8:33 am

Saturday Webcast and Conference to Explore Participatory Culture

Project New Media Literacies will host Learning in a Participatory Culture conference this Saturday, May 2, 2009, on the MIT campus, from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm. 

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Join the day-long webcast LIVE using Elluminate!. Workshops include “the complexities of copyright,” “using Wikipedia in the classroom,” “integrating the learning library into STEM classrooms.” Noted scholar Henry Jenkins will close the conference with a look at new media literacies today and in the future.

The event will unveil a new web-based learning environment, the Learning Library, and host a series of conversations and workshops about the integration and implementation of the new media literacies across disciplines.

Anyone with an interest in the future of education is encouraged to participate, and particularly high school teachers and afterschool coordinators. The format itself will be participatory - attendees should feel free to join the conversation, and leave the conference equipped with new ideas and strategies.

Project New Media Literacies, funded by the MacArthur Foundation, is a research initiative based at MIT that explores how to best equip young people to fully participate in an emergent media landscape. The group aims to raise public understanding about what it means to be literate in a globally interconnected, multicultural world.

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