The Spotlight Series of Distinguished Speakers at SXSWedu 2012 features exciting guests broadly aligned to content strands and significant topics related to innovations in learning. Among the notable list of names, S. Craig Watkins, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin Department of Radio-Television-Film.

Education in a World of Social and Technological Change

10:15 am Tuesday, March 6 - Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon C

S. Craig Watkins studies young people's social and digital media behaviors. He has written several books including, The Young and the Digital What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future (Beacon, 2009), which explores young people’s dynamic engagement with social media, games, mobile phones, and communities like Facebook.

Watkin's work addresses issues that range from the social impacts of young people’s participation in digital media culture to the educational implications. He is a member of the MacArthur Foundation’s research network on Connected Learning. His work in the network includes leading a team of researchers in an ethnographic study of teens and their participation in diverse digital media cultures and communities. Watkins is also developing a high school project that looks at the connection between youth, digital media, design, and civic engagement.

Find out more about S. Craig Watkins and the other Distinguished Speakers at SXSWedu.