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The more we know : NBC news, educational innovation, and learning from failure / Eric Klopfer and Jason Haas ; foreword by Henry Jenkins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Klopfer, Eric.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Study and teaching--Technological innovations.
- Science.
- Education in mass media--Forecasting.
- Education in mass media.
- Digital media--Social aspects.
- Digital media.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (227 p.)
- Other Title:
- More we know : NBC news, educational innovation, and learning from failure
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "In 2006, young people were flocking to MySpace, discovering the joys of watching videos of cute animals on YouTube, and playing online games. Not many of them were watching network news on television; they got most of their information online. So when NBC and MIT launched iCue, an interactive learning venture that combined social networking, online video, and gaming in one multimedia educational site, it was perfectly in tune with the times. iCue was a surefire way for NBC to reach younger viewers and for MIT to test innovative educational methods in the real world. But iCue was a failure: it never developed an audience and was canceled as if it were a sitcom with bad ratings. In The More We Know, Eric Klopfer and Jason Haas, both part of the MIT development team, describe the rise and fall of iCue and what it can teach us about new media, old media, education, and the challenges of innovating in educational media. Klopfer and Haas show that iCue was hampered by, among other things, an educational establishment focused on "teaching to the test," television producers uncomfortable with participatory media, and confusion about the market. But this is not just a cautionary tale; sometimes more can be learned from an interesting failure than a string of successes. Today's educational technology visionaries (iPads for everyone!) might keep this lesson in mind."
- Contents:
- Media education for the twenty-first century
- The education arcade
- An education revolution
- Due diligence
- The skunkworks
- Television dollars and digital pennies
- Ever more desperate attempts
- The hype
- What's your iCue?
- iCue reality
- What next?
- What if?
- The more we know.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-30469-4
- 1-283-95304-8
- 0-262-30562-3
- OCLC:
- 811963139
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