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

•  Play

•  Performance

•  Simulation

•  Appropriation

•  Multitasking

•  Distributed Cognition

•  Collective Intelligence

•  Judgment

•  Transmedia Navigation

•  Networking

•  Negotiation

•  Visualization

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

1. Concept

2. Concept in context

3. Your turn

4. What do you think?

Challenge Framework

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

Learning is situational rather than universal.

Learning is transmedia rather than unified and

self-contained.

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

Learning is collaborative rather than hierarchical.

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

Learning is emergent rather than pre-

structured.

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

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

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

http://projectnml.ning.com