Digital Media and Learning as an Emerging Field, Part II: A Proposal for How to Use “Worked Examples” to Move Forward

Abstract

In Part I of this paper, “How We Got Here,” (Gee 2009) I considered what the emerging field of work on digital media and learning (DMAL) is and how we, from different backgrounds and disciplines, came to this shared interest. I argued that a series of emerging fields, including the New Literacy Studies (NLS), Situated Cognition Studies, New Literacies Studies, and New Media Literacy Studies, are relevant both as formal literature and as influences “in the air” as people from different backgrounds meet, interact, and influence each other. These sorts of personal interactions will be as much a part of the history of DMAL as the formal literature. In fact, the way forward to more commonality, sharing, collaboration, and accumulated knowledge is not, I believe, through reading and citing of more formal literature, but rather by being more overt with each other in DMAL about our assumptions, influences, and approaches. It is to this matter that I now turn. Please view this article on IJLM.net: http://ijlm.net/...