Good Reception: Teens, Teachers, and Mobile Media in a Los Angeles High School

by Antero García

Book Overview

A year in the life of a ninth-grade English class shows how participatory culture and mobile devices can transform learning in schools.

Schools and school districts have one approach to innovation: buy more technology. In Good Reception, Antero Garcia describes what happens when educators build on the ways students already use technology outside of school to help them learn in the classroom. As a teacher in a public high school...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262545780
• ISBN13: 9780262545785
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher