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===**James Gee New Media as a way forward.** === *This is a link to the complete writing of James Gee and the future of learning involving New Media.*

**Abstract**
In this report, noted scholar James Paul Gee discusses the evolution of digital media and learning (DMAL) from its infancy as an "academic area" into a more organized field or coherent discipline. Distinguishing among academic areas, fields, disciplinary specializations, and thematic disciplines, Gee describes other academic areas that have fallen into these categories or developed into established disciplines. He argues that DMAL will not evolve until a real coherence develops through collaboration and the accumulation of shared knowledge. Gee offers a concrete proposal of one way scholars in DMAL could move the area forward to a more cohesive, integrated, and collaborative enterprise: the production of what he terms "worked examples."

**Argument**
Mr Gee is a professor at the University of Arizona and proposes that learning in school move forward to a collaborative arena to broaden the horizons of students. By conducting courses in person and via the internet, the professor claims there would be an dramatic increase in the learning curve based on the diverse population that would take part in each session.

**Key Article**
This book is leading toward a nice futuristic example of what course can become in the information age. Multiple students of all backgrounds participating in an open forum of learning that will enhance the atmosphere of a classroom.