Q&A with Mimi Ito: Facebook's educational potential
Q&A with Mimi Ito: Facebook's educational potential
- June 1, 2011
- Mizuko “Mimi” Ito, anthropology and informatics professor and current John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Chair in Digital Media and Learning, is featured in the Hechinger Report May 31, 2011
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From the Hechinger Report:
Mimi [Mizuko] Ito is a cultural anthropologist studying new media use, particularly
among young people in the United States and Japan. She focuses on the changing relationship
to media and communications among youth and is a co-author of "Hanging Out, Messing
Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media...." Ito, a professor
at the University of California at Irvine, just completed a three-year study about
youth digital media usage. She found that social networks and other online groups
open up whole new worlds of learning that schools have traditionally failed to explore-and
that time online is highly important for teenage development. "Facebook is the biggest
educational property we have in kids' lives now," said Ito, who is research director
at the Digital Media and Learning Hub at UC Irvine. "I'm not saying it's educational
in the way you want it to be. I'm just saying it's where they are doing most of their
learning."
For the full story, please visit http://hechingerreport.org/content/qa-with-mimi-ito-facebooks-educationa....
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