Q&A: Mimi Ito on connected learning for all
Q&A: Mimi Ito on connected learning for all
- May 21, 2013
- 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 Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning May 21, 2013
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From Digital Media and Learning:
Mizuko Ito is a cultural anthropologist who studies technology use and young people’s
changing relationships to media and communications. She is Professor in Residence
and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Chair in Digital Media and Learning
at the University of California, Irvine. Ito also serves as Research Director of the
Digital Media and Learning Hub at UC Irvine and Chair of the MacArthur Research Network
on Connected Learning. This post is part of a series of conversations with thought
leaders on digital media and learning, then and now. In conversation with journalist
Heather Chaplin, leaders reflect on how the field of digital media and learning has
changed over time and where it’s headed. The conversations are being collected for
an e-book that will be published by the MacArthur Foundation at the end of 2013. Interviews
have been edited for clarity and brevity.
For the full story, please visit http://spotlight.macfound.org/featured-stories/entry/qa-mimi-ito-on-conn....
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