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12/15/08
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Jonathan Fanton
Jonathan Fanton: New Fall Grants
Foundation president announces new grants and wishes happy holidays.12/11/08
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Mizuko Ito
Mizuko Ito: Working with New Media
Digital media can support opportunities for youth to engage in diverse forms of work and volunteerism. Mizuko Ito concludes our series from the authors of a forthcoming book on youth new media practice. Findings from a three-year ethnographic study were just released last month.12/09/08
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Sarah J.
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.12/08/08
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Patricia Lange
Lange and Ito: Literacy and Creative Production
Researchers describe new forms of media young people are making and sharing and how access to adult and peer mentors both on and offline are enhancing this work. This is part of our series from the authors of a forthcoming book on youth new media practice. Findings from a three-year ethnographic study were released last month.12/02/08
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Heather Horst
Heather A. Horst: Families and Media Ecology
How do parents feel about new media? How do family dynamics shape young people’s learning in and through new media at home? In her chapter on families, Heather Horst continues our discussion about the Digital Youth Project findings, released last month.12/01/08
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C.J. Pascoe
C.J. Pascoe: Flirting, Going Out and Breaking Up in Networked Publics
This post continues our series from the authors of a forthcoming book on youth new media practice. In the chapter on intimacy, a researcher discusses how teenagers are using new media in relationships. Findings from a three-year ethnographic study of young people’s use of new media were released last month.11/21/08
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Heather Horst
Horst, Herr-Stephenson, & Robinson: Media Ecologies, Genres of Participation
How does young people’s social and cultural participation shape new media engagement, interest, and expertise? This post continues our series from the authors of a forthcoming book on youth new media practice. Findings from a three-year ethnographic study were just released this week.11/20/08
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Mizuko Ito
Mizuko Ito: Digital Youth Project Findings
Mimi Ito announces the release of a report of findings from a three-year ethnographic study of youth new media practice. This is the first in a series of posts by the book’s authors we will feature here over the coming weeks.11/19/08
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Connie Yowell
Connie Yowell: New Ethnographic Research to Release this Week
MacArthur’s education director introduces the release of Living and Learning with New Media. The new report, out tomorrow from Mizuko Ito and colleagues, is the largest ethnographic study to date of young people’s digital media use in the US.10/21/08
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Cathy Davidson
Davidson & Goldberg: Digital Media and Learning Competition Update
HASTAC’s co-founders celebrate the closing of another Digital Media and Learning Competition and note the progress of projects supported under the inaugural competition.10/09/08
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Connie Yowell
Recent Links in Digital Media & Learning
We’ve gathered links in digital media and learning from around the web over the past few weeks that seem worth highlighting. They include new blogs and social networking tools, interviews with gaming researchers, and cross continental texting.9/26/08
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Mizuko Ito
Mimi Ito: Launching the Futures of Learning Blog
Ito announces a new blog that will review innovative institutions, projects, and research in the field of new media and learning.9/11/08
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Patrick Whitney
Patrick Whitney: The Last Model T
The Director of IIT’s Institute of Design argues that the school system is the only institution that has not transformed in the last century.8/28/08
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Keith Krueger
Bosco & Krueger: Responding to the Digital Disconnect at School
The CEO of the Consortium for School Networking and a Professor Emeritus at Western Michigan University discuss a new initiative designed to assess how school leaders are affecting the use of Web 2.0 applications in schools.8/18/08
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David Theo Goldberg
