Session Information
| Title | Hanging Out, Messing Around and Geeking Out: Connected Learning and Play in a Digital Age |
| Presenter(s) |  Mimi Ito, Professor in Residence and Director of Digital Media and Learning Hub, Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine, is a cultural anthropologist of technology use, examining children and youth's changing relationships to media and communications and is Professor in Residence at the University of California, Irvine, with appointments in the University of California Humanities Research Institute, the Department of Anthropology, and the Department of Informatics. Her work on educational software appears in Engineering Play: A Cultural History of Children's Software. In Japan, her research has focused on mobile and portable technologies, and she co-edited a book on that topic with Daisuke Okabe and Misa Matsuda, Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life. She has led a three-year collaborative ethnographic study, funded by the MacArthur Foundation, examining youth new media practices in the US, and focusing on gaming, digital media production, and Internet use. The findings of this project are reported in Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Youth Living and Learning with New Media. Continuing this work on informal learning with new media with the support of the MacArthur Foundation, she is Research Director of the Digital Media and Learning Hub at UC Irvine. Her web site is at http://www.itofisher.com/mito.
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| Time | Wednesday, October 20, 6:30p-7:30p |
| Location | Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center Auditorium |
| Format | pre-conference talk |
| Description | If you are looking for something to do Wednesday evening, the Quello Center is holding their annual lecture, featuring Mimi Ito.
Her talk should be quite interesting to the Meaningful Play audience. The talk is free and open to the public. Complete details on the lecture, including directions how to get there, are available on the Quello Center site. NOTE: This event is within walking distance of the Marriott and MSU Union. It will likely take you less than 15 minutes to walk from the Marriott or MSU Union. |