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3/05/10
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Christine Cupaiuolo
Startl Extends Deadline for Three-Month Accelerator Program for Start-Up Companies
Interested in building educational digital products and services? Need help taking your project to the next level? Apply now for Startl’s incubator program.3/04/10
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Sarah Jackson
“The Digital World of Young Children: Emergent Literacy”
A new report from the Pearson Foundation examines how digital media is affecting early literacy around the globe.2/25/10
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Barbara R.
Toward a New Ecosystem of Learning: Reflections on the Digital Media and Learning Conference
Highlights include talks on the participation gap by S. Craig Watkins, and Sonia Livingstone on learning and risk taking.2/24/10
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Sarah Jackson
Hacking Education From the Outside In
Startl supports the development of new “learner centric” educational products and technologies. Read an interview with co-founder Pheonix Wang.2/04/10
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Sarah Jackson
New Media Literacies Announces a Monthly Webinar Series for Educators
Looking for a way to jumpstart your curriculum? Have ideas about how to bring your classrooms into the 21st century? MIT’s Project New Media Literacies (NML) needs you.2/02/10
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Sarah Jackson
PBS’s Frontline Airs Digital Nation Tonight
Frontline explores “what it means to be human in a world immersed in technology” with its documentary “Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier.”1/28/10
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Christine Cupaiuolo
Startl Opens Applications for Design Boost & Accelerator Programs
We wanted to introduce you to Startl, a new social enterprise that aims to identify innovators and accelerate the development of digital media and learning products. Startl was incorporated in 2009 with initial funding from the MacArthur, Hewlett and Gates foundations, and it launched a website and blog earlier this month.1/27/10
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Christine Cupaiuolo
Responses to Kaiser Study on Media Usage
Last week’s news that media usage among young people is up—to seven and a half hours a day—sparked a number of responses from digital media experts.1/21/10
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Christine Cupaiuolo
Kaiser Study: Kids Age 8 to 18 Spend More Than Seven Hours a Day With Media
A new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation found that young people age 8 to 18 are spending more time with media than ever before: more than seven and half hours a day—and one hour more than five years ago.1/15/10
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Christine Cupaiuolo
Classroom Advice: Turned-Off Devices Equals Turned-Off Children
Education professor Stephen Heppell has a simple message for schools: embrace technology.1/14/10
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Christine Cupaiuolo
PLAYBACK: Educational Paperback Association Embraces New Name, New Mission with Digital Media
Plus: Pew Research Center updates internet user demographics; Digital Media & Learning Competition timeline extended; Futurelab researchers discuss computer games in the classroom—all in Spotlight’s Digital Media and Learning News Round-Up.1/12/10
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Christine Cupaiuolo
Cooney Center Launches Competition for Innovators in Children’s Educational Media
The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop is accepting applications for the inaugural Cooney Center Prizes for Innovation, a national competition intended to identify, inspire, nurture and scale breakthrough ideas in children’s digital media and learning.12/17/09
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Christine Cupaiuolo
