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4/10/08
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Aran Nulty
Aran Nulty: New Media Technologies and Student Learning
New media technologies need to be a central part of how all students learn. Aran Nulty from the epistemic games research team at the University of Wisconsin shares her observations from two panels she attended on games, student learning and mathematics education at the recent AERA conference.4/10/08
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Elizabeth Bagley
Elizabeth Bagley: Consequential Digital Identities
How can digital media help provide pro-social roles for young people? A researcher at the University of Wisconsin reflects on the recent AERA conference and explores how digital media is giving youth the chance to try on different identities through meaningful production and authorship.4/09/08
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David Hatfield
David Hatfield: Games, Diversity, and Democracy
Can games play a role in preparing young people to participate in our democracy? A researcher from the University of Wisconsin continues our series of reflections from the AERA conference held in New York last month.4/08/08
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David Williamson Shaffer
David Williamson Shaffer: Celebrating Seymour
Seymour Papert was honored in a special session at the American Education Research Association, and his work provides a powerful example for the digital future—and the Macarthur Digital Media and Learning initiative.4/08/08
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Craig Wacker
Reflections on AERA: Observations on learning, games, democracy, identity and education
Continuing our observations from the recent AERA conference, over the next week Spotlight will feature a series of posts from members of the Epistemic Games Group at the University of Wisconsin Madison.4/03/08
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Benjamin Stokes
Connected Reflections: Learning, Meaning, and Civic Engagement in the Digital Age
Four provocative ideas from a recent AERA panel are highlighted by MacArthur Program Officer Benjamin Stokes, who connects each idea to the profile of a leading thinker on this website.3/27/08
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danah boyd
[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.3/25/08
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Howard Gardner
[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.3/19/08
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Rik Panganiban
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.3/18/08
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Steven Gerber
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.3/06/08
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Kevin Denney
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.3/03/08
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Julia Stasch
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.2/28/08
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Cathy Davidson
[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.2/21/08
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Cathy Davidson
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.2/20/08
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David Theo Goldberg
