Ito

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She has an M.A. degree in Anthropology from Stanford University and PhD Degrees in Anthropology and Education from Stanford University. She worked as Research Director of the Digital Media and Learning Hub at [|University of California Humanities Research Institute]. Now, she is a p rofessor in Residence and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Chair in Digital Media and Learning at University of California. Some of her books published are [|//Engineering Play: A Cultural History of Children's Software//] and [|//Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media//]. A couple years ago, she completed a study with co-working on a multi-year project on [|digital kids and informal learning] . Correspondingly,she studied on focusing on anime music videos and fansubs.

__My comments on some of her thoughts from __[] According to her, today's learning culture classifies two different ways : one is about youth-driven social engagement and sharing and the other is embodied one in educational institutions managed by adult-driven agendas. She asserts young people use the first way to socialize or to have fun. She declares that as part of this their life style, today's youth is learning in an engaged style by using these new media. She says they even learn how to get along with their friends or what it takes to get a date by these media. I strongly agree her opinions above because they make the learning process a piece of their life. So they use their emotional intelligence while learning. That leads to engaged learning and life-long learning to them.





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In one of her writings, she mentions about visiting the YouMedia space in Chicago Public Library's Harold Washington Library Centre in downtown Chicago. She says this space offers to youth sitting on bright comfy sofas, chatting and eating, playing Rock Band, mixing music, heads down in front of laptops, and getting feedback from digital media mentors. When she went there, she says she was really suprised because it was a so different library than any other library experience she had growing up. She alleges that "YouMedia is loud, sociable, and hip -- but it's still all about the public mission of the library to serve as a point of access to culture, information, and the media of the day, staffed by smart guides to knowledge and literacy.". I think we need to shift our libraries to this kind of libraries because today's digital generation cannot be stand for being quite for a long time to study or research and they cannot stand for studying without any communication with others. Unlike the world we were born, today's youth was born in a really different world that have an easy way to access all kind of multimedia. They need to use all these medias even by studying at a library. If the libraries do not meet their needs, they will be boring places that they do not want to stop.

I would like to share an diagram that Mimi Ito presented a deep social analysis of youth use of mobile devices to deliver four core unique mobile features. And a headline from a newpaper about peer-based learning for a Digital Age. I also added a diagram about vidder network influence by age that created by Mimi Ito. I added them to "file". You can find them there. Thank you for reading my comments on some of Mimi Ito's thoughts!!


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