MacArthur Series On Digital Learning and Media

From danah boyd's Apophenia his AM I find that the MacArthur Foundation has rolled out into publication a full series of books on digital media, learning, youth online identity, play, gaming, etc., etc.

I've just started grazing through the series but it looks to be of enormous wealth and a feast of information and questions for people involved with kids, online behaviour and identity: ie: teachers.

While the series is academic in nature, they are written for a more general audience. Most exciting of all though was something I discovered on my own about these books: you can get each piece in them for free! I followed the links from Apophenia to the site and was searching through the table of contents that is posted about each book. Looking down on the left hand side of each page you will find a link called "Open Access Edition." Click on this link and you will be taken to another site where you can get a pdf edition of each and every essay in each of the books! Love MIT's commitment to making information available to all people. This may be great for educators as there may only be one or two essays that you are interested in. It's always better to have the book, but getting a few of the essays may be all that you want, so this is the way to go.

An excellent and exciting new resource that will give us more of a look into the kids in our classrooms.

Tags: danahboyd, apophenia, MIT, MacArthur Foundation, literacy, digital media

Comments

Thanks for sharing these resources, Clarence! As I download and look at these, however, I am again yearning for a good way to annotate PDF files electronically as I read them. I used to have a full version of Adobe Reader to do this but now I don't. Do you have any suggestions for good programs (preferably free and Mac compatible) that permit PDF annotations?