Spotlight on Digital Media And Learning

Virtual Worlds Discussion: Credibility and Reputation in the New News

Kathy Im of MacArthur’s General Program will host a discussion on February 29th in Second Life on Credibility and Reputation in the New News.

[Reblogged] Cathy Davidson: When ‘No’ Means ‘Try Again’

Winners were announced last week in the inaugural Digital Media and Learning Competition. Here we reblog Cathy Davidson’s piece from the HASTAC blog on the challenges of providing comments and feedback to proposals that did not receive an award.

Tony Curzon Price: Tell me who to believe in Second Life? And can I believe your answer?

Tony Curzon Price of opendemocracy.net previews an upcoming conversation in Second Life this Friday on “Credibility and Reputation in the New News.”  The discussion will explore questions about the credibility and accuracy of news and information in virtual worlds.  Tony will be talking with Jonathan Zittrain, Professor and Internet Scholar at Oxford University. Kathy Im, of MacArthur’s General Program will moderate.

Inaugural Digital Media and Learning Competition Selects Winning Projects

HASTAC announces seventeen winners in the first Digital Media and Learning Competition. To see a list of winners and their project descriptions visit the competition website at http://www.dmlcompetition.net.

[Reblogged] Davidson & Goldberg: The Digital Media and Learning Competition

Tomorow HASTAC will be announcing the projects that have won the inaugural Digital Media and Learning Competition. In preparation, we reblog Cathy Davidson & David Theo Goldberg’s three-part series on the Competition from their HASTAC blog.

[Reblogged] John Palfrey: The MacArthur Series on Digital Media and Learning

We reblog John Palfrey’s piece from last month about the new MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning just out this past December from MIT Press. John is the executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and a Professor at Harvard Law School.

Event Recap: Civil Liberties and Virtual Worlds—photos, podcasts and more

On January 28, the MacArthur Foundation co-hosted its second event in a virtual world.  The topic was ‘civil liberties and virtual worlds,’ featuring Jack Balkin of Yale Law School and Robin Harper of Linden Lab in conversation with Jonathan Fanton, President of the Foundation.  USC and Global Kids co-hosted the event.

Barab and Gresalfi: Examining the Effects of Game-Based Curricula Across the World

Sasha Barab and Melissa Gresalfi, professors in learning sciences at Indiana University, discuss their work scaling a multi-user game-based curricula, Quest Atlantis, in classrooms across the world.

Suzanne Seggerman: Launching the New Knowledge Network

Suzanne Seggerman discusses the work of the Digital Innovations Group and Games for Change in creating the new social networking and learning space for the emerging field of digital media and learning.

Natalie Rodic: Youth Media Exchange

Natalie Rodic from Taking It Global discusses their work with Global Kids leveraging social networks to support youth media production on global issues.