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5/29/09
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Edutopia Announces Digital Generation Project
Online video portraits chronicle the lives of today’s digital youth.5/28/09
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June 4th Webinar to Explore “Engaging the Digital Generation”
Teacher Vicki Davis and researcher Nichole Pinkard will be presenters at the upcoming Edutopia webinar on June 4th.5/25/09
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Open Government 2.0
Obama asks public to take part in digital brainstorming session on government transparency policies; provides open access to government data.5/24/09
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Sarah Jackson
Reconciling a Media Sensation with Data
Grantee Eszter Hargittai counters the claim that Facebook users have lower grades using data from her recent study.5/20/09
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‘Aha’ Moments - Gamer Contest Calls for Student Video Submissions
The Learning Games Network and AMD are asking student gamers to share how they think education can and will change with digital games.5/06/09
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Where Learning Happens
MacArthur grantee Brigid Barron sits down with Informal Science for a wide-ranging interview on looking for learning in unexpected places.5/01/09
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New Study on Use of Web 2.0 Applications in Classrooms
Study spotlights the discrepancy between attitudes toward Web 2.0 and use in the classroom.5/01/09
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Special Issue Explores Participatory Culture and Digital Media
In the Spring 2009 issue of Threshold, MacArthur grantees define participatory culture and discuss its future.4/29/09
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Saturday Webcast and Conference to Explore Participatory Culture
Project New Media Literacies will host Learning in a Participatory Culture conference this Saturday, May 2, 2009, on the MIT campus, from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm.4/13/09
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Learning How to Learn
Nichole Pinkard, Director of Innovation at the University of Chicago’s Urban Education Institute, discusses teaching and learning in a digital world, including the expanding notion of teacher and teaching.2/13/09
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NPR: Interactive Games Make Museums A Place To Play
We reblog a recent NPR story about the efforts of museums to harness enthusiasm around games to get people more engaged with their collections.1/15/09
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[Reblogged] Cathy Davidson: Digital Media and Learning at MLA
We reblog recent posts from one of HASTAC’s co-founders that reflect on the digital media and learning sessions at the recent MLA Convention.1/07/09
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[Reblogged] John Palfrey on Facebook Usage
We reblog an NPR/ WBUR interview with John Palfrey, where he discusses his research on Facebook usage. Palfrey is a professor at Harvard University Law School and faculty co-director at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.12/09/08
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Digital Youth Research Attracts Wide Coverage in Press and Blogosphere
We summarize the coverage of new findings from a three-year ethnographic study of young people’s digital media use, which was released by Mizuko Ito and her colleagues last month.11/10/08
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