Threshold Magazine
Spring 2009

This issue of Threshold: Exploring the Future of Education features articles focused on learning in a participatory culture, produced in partnership with MIT Project New Media Literacies.

	‘Geeking Out’ on Democracy Online youth are using new media platforms -- from Second Life to YouTube -- to hang out, mess around, and learn the civic skills they need to participate in today’s global society, according to Henry Jenkins, co-director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program.
	What is Learning in a Participatory Culture? Cable’s Leaders in Learning Award winner Erin Reilly looks at how educators are learning how to engage today’s digital kids to share and distribute knowledge within learning communities.
	Participatory Culture and Schools: Can We Get There From Here? Digital media and Web 2.0 offer an opportunity to bridge the two-culture gap between online youth and largely offline schools, as explored by education-technology expert James Bosco.
	Create, Collaborate ... Connect How students’ interest-driven activities can inform their classroom learning.
	The Future of Participatory Culture: A Threshold Forum Education leaders Benjamin Stokes, Henry Jenkins, Daniel T. Hickey, Barry Joseph, and John Palfrey discuss the rise of digital media and what it means for our students, our schools, and education in general.
	From Theory to Practice A look at two different approaches to putting new media literacies into action.
	Let the Ideas Flow How the latest trends in corporate idea generation are being applied to education collaborations with positive results.
	Departments
	Explorations Participatory culture in formal and informal learning settings.
	About Threshold Who we are, what we do, and why.
	In Focus Teachers vs. skeptical parents; online kids and civic engagement; the growing virtual world; and more.