Tom Satwicz, Assistant Professor
University of Georgia, Learning and Performance Support Laboratory
Three Expertise Keywords:
digital media use, Ecology-of-Games, ethnography, informal learning
Why Digital Media and Learning?
Young people make using digital media an important aspect of their own lives.
Recent Posts:
Description of Current Work:
The principal issue my research program deals with is how to best understand and account for learning that occurs outside of a sustained educational agenda. In short, I am interested in how and what people learn in places other than school. This issue is one way to think about the ways in which learning and activity in school compare with learning and activity that occur outside of school. More broadly speaking, my research program investigates the continuity between school and everyday life. By looking at the organization of learning environments other than school we can develop new ways to think about how educational contexts are organized. Traditionally, my approach to this has been to look at uses of digital media by young people in everyday contexts. This has been useful in that they represent emergent practices that are not well accounted for in theories of learning that are commonly used as a basis for educational designs.
Selected Publications/Projects/Articles/Press:
Satwicz, T. & Stevens, R. (2007). People, technology, and learning: A distributed perspective on collaborative activity. In. J. M. Spector, M.D. Merrill, J.J.G. van Merriënboer & M.P. Driscoll (Eds.), Handbook of research on educational communications and technology (3rd ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Satwicz, T., & Stevens, R. (2007). Tools of play: Coordinating games, characters, and actions while learning to play video games. In C. Chinn, G. Erkens & S. Puntambekar (Eds.), The proceedings of CSCL 2007: Of Mice, Minds, and Society (pp. 629-638): International Society of the Learning Sciences.
In-Game, In-Room, In-World: Reconnecting Video Game Play to the Rest of Kids’ Lives
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/dmal.9780262693646.041 (MacArthur Series Author)
