Spotlight on Digital Media And Learning

Mariel García: My Digital Life

We begin our series on today’s young digital media innovators with a post from a student now studying cultural and virtual media in Mexico. A participant in Global Kids’ Online Leadership Program, here she reflects on her own work and contributions to the Youth Media Exchange community.

Connie Yowell:  Digital Media’s Young Innovators

MacArthur’s Education Director introduces a new series of posts highlighting the work of youth in digital media production.

Recent Links in Digital Media & Learning

We’ve gathered links in digital media and learning from around the web over the past few months that seem worth highlighting. They include photos of a recent virtual conference, a podcast and discussion on the implications of online play for literacy learning, and dynamic writing and research.

Erin Reilly: MIT’s Project New Media Literacies

The research director for MIT’s Project New Media Literacies gives an overview of their work with classroom teachers and after school mentors to bring media literacy theory into practice.

Jonathan Fanton: New Fall Grants

Foundation president announces new grants and wishes happy holidays.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Amira Fouad: RezEd.org Releases First Seasonal Report on Ethics and Virtual Worlds

Global Kids’ program manager discusses the first progress report for http://www.RezEd.org, the hub for learning and virtual worlds launched last spring.