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6/04/09
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Sarah J.
Field Museum’s Virtual Reef a Hit
WhyReef piques teens’ interest in coral reefs and the ecosystem and helps them become scientific problem-solvers.6/03/09
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Sarah J.
How Museums and Libraries Are Using Digital Media
In an ongoing series of blog posts at Futures of Learning, MacArthur grantee Anne Balsamo and colleagues explore how museums and libraries are cultivating “technological imagination.”6/02/09
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David Birchfield
Promising Evidence for Using Immersive Games in Classrooms
Science students make greater gains in MacArthur grantee David Birchfield and colleagues’ SMALLab than in regular classrooms.5/29/09
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Sarah J.
Edutopia Announces Digital Generation Project
Online video portraits chronicle the lives of today’s digital youth.5/28/09
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Sarah J.
June 4th Webinar to Explore “Engaging the Digital Generation”
Teacher Vicki Davis and researcher Nichole Pinkard will be presenters at the upcoming Edutopia webinar on June 4th.5/25/09
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Sarah J.
Open Government 2.0
Obama asks public to take part in digital brainstorming session on government transparency policies; provides open access to government data.5/24/09
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Sarah J.
Reconciling a Media Sensation with Data
Grantee Eszter Hargittai counters the claim that Facebook users have lower grades using data from her recent study.5/21/09
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Seann Dikkers
More than Just Talk: Learning with Mobile Media
How will we use our cell phones in the future? Researchers Kurt Squire & Seann Dikkers discuss the work they are doing on the Mobile Media Learning Project to push the boundaries of mobile media research.5/20/09
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Sarah J.
‘Aha’ Moments - Gamer Contest Calls for Student Video Submissions
The Learning Games Network and AMD are asking student gamers to share how they think education can and will change with digital games.5/18/09
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Benjamin Stokes
Public Forum featuring Cory Ondrejka and Jonathan Fanton on MacArthur Island
Today’s forum examined the future of virtual worlds and philanthropy. Pictures and videos will be forthcoming.5/18/09
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James Paul Gee
Ideas are (Potential) Actions
Facts are tools for action in specific domains. This is pretty clear in fields like physics. But what about the humanities? Professor James Paul Gee, a MacArthur grantee, asks whether these ideas stand on their own.5/14/09
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James Paul Gee
‘Rise of Nations’: A Model for Assessment?
The video game Rise of Nations contains the kernel of what a new and deeper system of assessment might look like. MacArthur grantee James Gee says games like this should help us think in smarter ways about learning and assessment.5/11/09
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Barry Joseph
RezEd Review: A Year in Learning and Virtual Worlds
To inaugurate its second year, RezEd.org is releasing the latest RezEd Review, featuring edited transcripts of 22 RezEd podcast interviews from the past year.5/07/09
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Benjamin Stokes
Public Forum Invitation: join Fanton and Ondrejka on MacArthur Island, May 18
To mark the launch of MacArthur Island within Second Life, this forum will examine the future of virtual worlds and philanthropy. There will be a simultaneous broadcast in standard web video.5/06/09
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Sarah J.
