Learning, Media and Technology
March 2010 Volume 35, Number 1
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 5
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The Red Pill: Social Studies, Media Texts, and Literacies
Trenia L. Walker
This article explores the use of media texts in contemporary high school social studies classrooms. Much of the current research regarding media education in social studies classes has focused on... More
pp. 1-14
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ICT Use among 13-Year-Old Swedish Children
Ulli Samuelsson
Swedish children have grown up in a digital culture, but have internalized information and communication technology (ICT) in different ways and gained most of their knowledge by peer-based learning... More
pp. 15-30
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"Gamestar Mechanic": Learning a Designer Mindset through Communicational Competence with the Language of Games
Ivan Alex Games
This article presents the results of a three-year study of "Gamestar Mechanic" (www.gamestarmechanic.com), a flash-based multiplayer online role-playing game developed for the MacArthur Foundation'... More
pp. 31-52
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The Sound of Feedback in Higher Education
Maggi Savin-Baden
Whilst there is considerable literature on feedback for students and on the use of audio feedback, literature in the area of podcasting assignment feedback (PAF) remains sparse. Partly, this may be... More
pp. 53-64
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Incidental Foreign Language Acquisition from Media Exposure
An H. Kuppens
A number of experimental studies have demonstrated the incidental acquisition of a foreign language by children and adolescents when watching foreign language television. While such experiments can... More
pp. 65-85