Douglas Thomas, Associate Professor, Annenberg School for Communication
Fellow, Annenberg Center
University of Southern California, http://annenberg.usc.edu
Three Expertise Keywords:
digital-media, learning, virtual-worlds
Why Digital Media and Learning?
It represents new ways of thinking about education for the 21st century.
Recent Posts:
- Douglas Thomas: Keeping It Real (November 10, 2008)
- Thomas & Kafai: Tweens and Reproductive Health in Virtual Worlds (August 12, 2008)
- Doug Thomas: Under the Surface of Virtual Worlds (April 30, 2008)
- Douglas Thomas: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. For Avatars? (January 27, 2008)
- Doug Thomas: Learning More Than You Think in Virtual Worlds (November 13, 2007)
- Doing the Impossible in Virtual Worlds (June 19, 2007)
- Barab and Thomas on their Project, “Learning in the 21st Century” (December 23, 2006)
Description of Current Work:
Focuses on the intersections of games and learning, with a particular focus on how new media might prove useful in reformulating education.
Selected Publications/Projects/Articles/Press:
Games & Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media.
“The Play of Imagination” (w/ John Seely Brown).
Games & Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media. Vol 2. 2.
KPK, Inc., forthcoming in the MacArthur Series on Digital Learning: Race, Ethnicity and Media
