Transmedia 4 Kids

"As part of this new role, Mary will lead a team dedicated to the incubation of new products and education services across multiple platforms, designed to engage learners and readers on any device, in any environment. As CCO, she will be responsible for delivering interactive, innovative content solutions for K-12 learning that help educators and students succeed in the classroom and beyond. HMH will continue to focus on integrating curriculum and digital tools, as well as apps and games, to enhance educational products and meet the evolving demands of the market."

"A growing number of kids at increasingly younger ages are engaging in online social networking today-a development that is leading to a surge of news stories, media attention, and economic investment.....scholars Sara Grimes and Deborah Fields argue that these shifts in usage and public discussion demand a better understanding of the ways that social networking sites mediate kids’ socializing and the opportunities and limits they place on kids’ participation, particularly for young children." -The Joan Ganz Cooney Center

Jenkins explains how "transmedia encourages additive comphrension."

 'Like any other kind of storytelling, transmedia is something which can be done well or badly. You can be attentive to the possibilities of expanding a story in new directions or you can simply slap a logo on something and pretend like it’s part of the same franchise. Transmedia can be enriching or exploitative, can be motivated by the crudest of economic motives or shaped by the most cutting edge learning science. But, when transmedia is done well, it creates a deeply engaging, immersive experience, which multiplies the number of learning opportunities"

I'd love to see more kids involved in after school hacking. Check out the three 45 minute lesson plans.