Spotlight on Digital Media And Learning

Digital Media & Learning Announcements: Call for Papers & Proposals

Opportunities for educators, researchers and anyone else interested in digital media.

How Technology can Help Students Learn “Global Competence”

New digital tools can help kids learn with their peers around the globe without ever leaving home.

PLAYBACK: Federal Appeals Court Rules Against Net Neutrality

Plus: One Book, One Twitter, Henry Jenkins on narrative in popular TV shows, Pennsylvania classrooms welcome PBS’s Digital Learning Library and more in Spotlight’s news round-up on digital media and learning.

PLAYBACK: A Look at the National Education Technology Plan and National Broadband Plan

Plus: Tips and tools from InspirED; Michiko Kakutani’s review of books on the influence of digital media; an interview with Eric Gordon of Participatory Chinatown—all in Spotlight’s news round-up on digital media and learning.

Survey: Students Take “Free-Agent Learner” Approach to Education

A national education survey found that students are increasingly creating personalized learning experiences, using a wide range of outside-the-classroom resources, technologies and collaboration with other students.

How Would You Reimagine Learning?

New federal online portal asks the public for educational solutions and design ideas.

How Mozilla and Open Source Culture Can Inform Open Government Initiatives

Open source software has an illustrious history, fervent advocates and a quixotic stance in a capitalist climate. Can it also be a model for open government and civic action?

“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.

Empowering Parents and Protecting Children in an Evolving Media Landscape

A new report from Harvard’s Youth and Media Policy Working Group at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society summarizes current research on kids and media safety, privacy and quality.

Measuring Classroom Progress: 21st Century Assessment Project Wants Your Input

Guest authors Daniel Hickey and Brian Nelson argue that the opportunity to institute true reform in assessment practices is now, and the Race to the Top Assessment Initiative should think more broadly about how we measure progress in the classroom. They welcome comments on findings from the MacArthur 21st Century Assessment Project.

What Would Your Students Include in the State of the Union?

Wondering how to turn the State of the Union into an engaging assignment? Vanessa Vartabedian, the community manager at the New Media Literacies Community Site, a research initiative based within USC’s Annenberg School for Communication, posted a great suggestion today: Join in writing a collaborative State of the Union.