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Participatory Culture is when members are free to contribute to society with their creation of problem-solving on an issue that is being valued.  It also related to the new literacies of online reading comprehension that create new skills for meaningful decision making. The “Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21 st Century” paper mentioned  that media is a social mode of production, and I agree with this point. He also mentioned that participatory culture revolves around learning and investigating with technology and creating something and solving problems by thinking out of the box to change society. Embracing participatory cultures into everyday practice in classrooms are vital and teachers need to be guides for the learners.  There might be some difficulties the teacher and the students face, but it is how these problems are being dealt with rather than to avoid having problems....

The notion of emerging technology to promote learning through experience is more than creating an engaging and playful experience. In the article, it explained Dewey’s intention of the term “an” experience. Dewey described experience as a unity among its constituent elements, a possibility of how things might come together, a dramatic quality (a powerful play) and an aesthetic quality (idealized and optimal experience). Furthermore, Dewey’s philosophy is not as simple as it sounds since many perceived it in the wrong direction. It is to have sufficient educative experience, I believe, to emerge from not only participating, but it creates and involves the learners in the learning process. Also, he explained how ideas are powerful lenses to guide and reflect on an actual situation. When emerging technology to create “an” educational experience, it helps students to transform their own experience and create ideas that fully perceives the world.