Spotlight on Digital Media And Learning

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.

Online Discussion: Civil Liberties and Virtual Worlds (January 28, Webcast and in Second Life)

MacArthur President Jonathan Fanton will host a panel discussion on “Philanthropy and Virtual Worlds: Considering Civil Liberties” on January 28.

Early Days of Competition Draw Crowd

Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg of HASTAC (www.hastac.org) report in on the interest generated by the launch of the Digital Media and Learning Competition last week. The Competition will award $2 million in funding to emerging leaders, communicators, and innovators shaping the field of digital media and learning.

Group Discussion on “Virtual Success”—will you know it when you see it?

Lucy Bernholz hosts a discussion with the funding community on what will philanthropy accomplish in virtual worlds, and how will we know?

Competition Launches: HASTAC calls for applications to new Digital Media and Learning Competition

The MacArthur Foundation is supporting the Digital Media and Learning Competition under the leadership of HASTAC (www.hastac.org).  Designed to support new projects that might not come to the Foundation’s attention through other channels, the Competition is designed to award $2 million in grants to enhance the field of learning enabled or advanced by digital media.

Katynka Martínez: Pacman, MacArthur Park, and El Imigrante

Katynka discusses new Los Angeles narratives created by urban youth. Who would be chasing Pacman if he were navigating the city streets of LA?

Emerging Details for June 22nd Event

Bookmark this post for emerging details on the event mentioned by Jonathan Fanton.

The Future of Learning Institutions

It is time to consider how learning institutions can be transformed and supported in new distributed configurations.

Schools are a Last Vestige of an Industrial Age

What will schools be like when they act like information age organizations?