Spotlight on Digital Media And Learning

Games and Learning Research Going to Scale with New Federal Dollars

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin, Madison will develop technology to allow computers to teach complex real-world problem solving, thanks to a large grant from the National Science Foundation.

Online Safety 3.0 Calls for Teaching Media Literacy, Digital Citizenship

Anne Collier writes in the School Library Journal that we need to get beyond outdated notions of online safety and focus on new media literacy and digital citizenship.

Public Forum on the Power of Youth Voice - Web and Second Life Simulcast Available

What do kids learn when they create with digital media? Experts will come together for a dialogue with parents, educators, community members and researchers in Philadelphia later this month for a public forum presented by the National Writing Project, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. 

Games for Self-Directed Learning; Your Self Improvement Playlist

BettrAt blog highlights a number of interesting quotes from a response paper cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito delivered at a recent workshop.

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