Anne Balsamo, Professor
University of Southern California
Three Expertise Keywords:
culture-and-technology, evocative-learning-objects, information design
Why Digital Media and Learning?
It is the basis for the creation of cultures of the future.
Recent Posts:
- Anne Balsamo: Videos and Frameworks for “Tinkering” in a Digital Age (January 30, 2009)
- Anne Balsamo: Networked Learning Sites (May 29, 2008)
Description of Current Work:
I am a design researcher who works collaboratively on the creation of cultural technologies such as evocative learning objects, interactive walls, and public interactives. I have just finished a book on the process of cultural innovation. As a teacher, I am interested in the training of the technological imagination through the development of new pedagogies of creativity.
Selected Publications/Projects/Articles/Press:
Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work, Duke University Press, forthcoming.
“A Pedagogy for Original Synners,” w/Steve Anderson, in Tara McPherson, ed. Digital Youth, Innovation, and the Unexpected (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning.) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007: 241-259.
“Taking Culture Seriously: Educating and Inspiring the Technological Imagination,” http://www.academiccommons.org, Dec. 2005.
