Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/6xxbwC New Digital Media and Learning as an Emerging Area and Worked Examples as One Way Forward By: James Paul Gee Publisher: The MIT Press Print ISBN: 9780262513692, 0262513692 eText ISBN: 9780262266505, 0262266504 Copyright year: 2010 Format: EPUB Available from $ 19.99 USD SKU 9780262266505 In this report, noted scholar James Paul Gee discusses the evolution of digital media and learning (DMAL) from its infancy as an academic area into a more organized field or coherent discipline. Distinguishing among academic areas, fields, disciplinary specializations, and thematic disciplines, Gee describes other academic areas that have fallen into these categories or developed into established disciplines. He argues that DMAL will not evolve until a real coherence develops through collaboration and the accumulation of shared knowledge. Gee offers a concrete proposal of one way scholars in DMAL could move the area forward to a more cohesive, integrated, and collaborative enterprise: the production of what he terms worked examples. In Gee's sense of a worked example, scholars attempting to build the new area of DMAL would publicly display their methods of valuing and thinking about a specific problem, proposing them as examples of good work in order to engender debate about what such work in DMAL might come to look like and what shape the area itself might take. The goal would not be for the proposed approach to become the accepted one but for it to become fodder for new work and collaboration. Gee concludes by offering a sample worked example that illustrates his proposal.
