Mimi Ito - Statics: New Media and Its Superpowers: Learning, Post Pokemon

Mimi Ito - Statics: New Media and Its Superpowers: Learning, Post Pokemon presented before the February 2010 National Association of Independent Schools conference:

[W]e need to engage with kids’ peer cultures and recreational lives outside of school if we want to tap into the power that today’s networked media offers for learners. And I’m going to suggest that interest-driven learning is the key to unlocking this power. I’m going to walk you through several cases that hint at the ways in which we can do this, and some learning principles that emerge from these cases. But first I want to paint a picture for you about what new media learning looks like in kids’ out of school lives.