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Mimi Ito: Launching the Futures of Learning Blog

Filed at 7:00 am on September 26, 2008 in Civic Engagement, Credibility, Games, Identity, Digital Divide1 comments

Ito announces a new blog that will review innovative institutions, projects, and research in the field of new media and learning.

I’m pleased to announce the launch of a blog that documents a new research effort that is just getting under way as part of the Digital Media and Learning Initiative. Futures of Learning is a collective blog authored by an international group of researchers.

For the next few months, we will be doing reading on research and practice in the area of new media and learning, as well as visiting different institutions and projects in the US and elsewhere that are innovating in this space. Along the way, we will be using this blog as a way to share some of what we are learning, and to solicit feedback on our work in progress. We will be posting book and article reviews and reports from our visits to various sites and conferences. Our goal is to help inform and grow a field of research and practice that is grounded in deep knowledge of the changing landscape of new media, as well as in an understanding of innovation in educational and design practice. We are focusing on two areas. One is an international review of research on how people are adopting digital and networked media. The second area is a review of learning institutions that are incorporating new media in innovative ways.

We welcome suggestions for literature and programs that we should be looking at!

Editor’s Note: Check out Mimi’s post on the recently released games and civics survey.

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1: Tee Gee at 7:34 am on Monday, October 6, 2008

can you tell me when the “Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking Out: Living and Learning with New Media” report will be available online?

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