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I am thrilled to announce the release of my newest book, Good Reception: Teens, Teachers, and Mobile Media in a Los Angeles High School<\/em><\/a>. Published by MIT Press, this book synthesizes nearly\u00a0a decade of research that began in my classroom as a teacher in Los Angeles and continues through various work today.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s a description of the book:<\/p>\n A year in the life of a ninth-grade English class shows how participatory culture and mobile devices can transform learning in schools.<\/strong><\/p>\n Schools and school districts have one approach to innovation: buy more technology. In\u00a0Good Reception<\/em>, 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 in South Central Los Angeles, Garcia watched his students’ nearly universal adoption of mobile devices. Whether recent immigrants from Central America or teens who had spent their entire lives in Los Angeles, the majority of his students relied on mobile devices to connect with family and friends and to keep up with complex social networks. Garcia determined to discover how these devices and student predilection for gameplay, combined with an evolving “culture of participation,” could be used in the classroom.<\/p>\n Garcia charts a year in the life of his ninth-grade English class, first surveying mobile media use on campus and then documenting a year-long experiment in creating a “wireless critical pedagogy” by incorporating mobile media and games in classroom work. He describes the design and implementation of “Ask Anansi,” an alternate reality game that allows students to conduct inquiry-based research around questions that interest them (including “Why is the food at South Central High School so bad?”). Garcia cautions that the transformative effect on education depends not on the glorification of devices but on teacher support and a trusting teacher-student relationship.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I\u2019ve taken the years since first completing the analysis at the heart of this book to look at how my work can shift the landscape of educational equity in the U.S. As a result, I\u2019ve had a chance to extend the research that first began as my dissertation in this book. At the same time, I\u2019ve tried to fill this book with as many resources for teachers, researchers, and game designers as possible. The appendices has resources for structuring game design for K-12 contexts as well as frameworks for meaningful integration of technology in schools.<\/p>\n If you want to get a better sense of this work, Henry Jenkins recently ran a three-part interview with me describing some of the key ideas in the book. Take a look at parts one<\/a>, two<\/a>, and three<\/a>.<\/p>\n I also recently was featured on Stanford Radio talking about the key ideas in the book and you definitely want to listen to that too, right?:
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