DML2012 - Antero Garcia: Seeing the Classroom as a Hub of Technology-enabled Social Change
2Antero Garcia, who teaches English at a high school in South Central Los Angeles, is a Ph.D. candidate focusing on critical literacies and civic identity through the use of mobile media and game play. He utilizes his classroom as a center of youth participatory action research, assessing and addressing needs in the South Central community.
Antero is on the conference committee for the 2012 Digital Media & Learning Conference in San Francisco, Calif., Mar. 1-3. More details about the conference, "Beyond Educational Technology: Learning Innovations in a Connected World," and call for papers can be found at the conference website: http://dml2012.dmlcentral.net.
Antero is interviewed here by Howard Rheingold, a cyberculture pioneer, social media innovator, and author of "Smart Mobs." In this video, Antero discusses how technology and digital media must be aimed at contemporary needs in public education to be seen as relevant.