EDUC 3610 Chapter --: Oct 5 - Participatory Culture & 21st Century Learning
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Oct 5: participatory culture & 21st century learning. In confronting the challenges of participatory culture: media education for the 21st century, p. 35-104. Kereluik, kristen, punya mishra, chris fahnoe, and laura terry. The authors argue that seemingly disparate frameworks converge on three types of knowledge, as necessary for the. Although 21st century frame- works are thought to advocate new types of knowledge, little has actually changed in the new century with respect to the overall goals of education. Despite this sense of continuity, significant changes related to how technologies change all three types of knowledge need to be conveyed. These authors and groups suggest that current schooling practices are designed to prepare citizens for the industrial age rather than the needs and demands of the new millennium. Tension between proponents and critics of 21st century knowledge frameworks in which one side sees epic shifts in necessary student knowledge and the other sees only new branding of old ideas.