Spotlight on Digital Media And Learning

[Reblogged] danah boyd: how youth find privacy in interstitial space

We reblog danah boyd’s recent piece about the race going on between parental surveillance vs. technology to assert privacy. boyd reminds us that youth have been trying to find ways to communicate outside the watchful eyes of adults for a long time.

[Reblogged] Howard Gardner: The End of Literacy? Don’t Stop Reading.

Howard Gardner asks “What will happen to reading and writing in our time?” We reblog his piece from the Washington Post last month that examines the future of literacy. Howard Gardner is Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Rik Panganiban: The International Justice Center in Second Life

Global Kids’ Second Life Producer and Program Associate, Rik Panganiban, announces the launch this week of the International Justice Center in Second Life, an education and action clearinghouse supporting a global constituency for international justice.

Steven Gerber: Internet Meets the International Criminal Court

In conjunction with the first International Justice Award and the new International Justice Center in Second Life, MacArthur’s Program Officer in Human Rights and International Justice discusses the International Criminal Court and its increasing connections to the global internet.

[Reblogged] John Palfrey: Civic Life Online

Continuing our discussion of civics this week, we reblog John Palfrey’s recent piece on how digital media can engage youth online. John reacts to the new volume in the MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning. John is the executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and a Professor at Harvard Law School.

Lance Bennett: Investigating Youth Civic Learning and Engagement Online

How can informal online environments effectively engage the citizenship and learning styles of younger generations? University of Washington Professor Lance Bennett details his team’s work on the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement’s Digital Media and Civic Learning Project.

Kevin Denney: Archiving Learning

When are things ready for storing? A member of the Illinois Institute of Technology research faculty looks at understanding how people collect and store data and objects.

Julia Stasch: Reflections on the HASTAC-MacArthur Competition Winners

Vice President Julia Stasch of the MacArthur Foundation reflects on the inaugural winners as a cohort. 

[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.

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.

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.