When it comes to fanfiction and academics, there is a long history of non-fans writing and doing things that fans don’t particularly like, so you should be extraordinarily careful when you introduce fanfiction-based exercises to wary young fans.
Fanfiction: What Educators Really Need to Know
July 17, 2013 by
Do young fanfiction authors seek the kind of feedback that educators would find “useful” in K-12 settings, and are fanfiction communities really the nurturing environments of peer-critique that some make them out to be?
Now in Theaters: An Absolutely Must-See Doc About Digital Literacy
July 14, 2013 by
Filmmaker Cullen Hoback’s work represents a treasure trove of ideas for those who want to connect domestic spying and the death of privacy to civics, media studies, ICT, and political theory—not to mention information literacy and digital literacy specifically.
Oh, All That Annoying Movie Marketing: A Chat with Critic Eric D. Snider
July 6, 2013 by
“Young people are pretty savvy about marketing…They don’t consider something ‘bad’ or ‘annoying’ just because it’s marketing, the way many of us in the previous generation did.”
Jane Austen, Edtech, and the Promise of ‘Theatrics’
May 16, 2013 by
“A narrative experience like ‘The Lizzie Bennet Diaries’ is compelling in part because of the great bones of Austen’s story and characters, for sure. But equally compelling is the story form, the opportunity for consumers to engage deeply with those characters…”
Welcoming ‘Sanditon’…and a Whole New Level of Fan Participation
May 15, 2013 by
“Fans will not only have the opportunity to interact with the story, but actually be a part of it.”
Q: How to Connect Critical Thinking, Research, and Information Literacy? A: Fandom
April 2, 2013 by
The task for educators is not to drain this sense of open-ended exploration from student-fans but rather to make sure that it is accompanied by the Jiminy Cricket-like voice of critical literacy…