March 18, 2010
PLAYBACK: C-SPAN Makes Video Archives Available Online, Redefining Education: Plus: The trustworthiness of Wikipedia; university dorms do away with land-line phones; explaining the vision of digital media learning; and Intel science winners—all in Spotlight’s Digital Media and Learning news round-up.
Category: Civic Engagement, Mobile, Participatory Learning, Schools, Social Media, STEM

March 17, 2010
How Would You Reimagine Learning?: New federal online portal asks the public for educational solutions and design ideas.
Category: Civic Engagement, Policy, Schools

March 15, 2010
Webinar on Networking and Negotiation as Skills in a Global Classroom: Project New Media Literacies presents the second installment of its professional development series for educators, “Networking and Negotiation as Skills in a Global Classroom,” on Thursday, March 18 at 7…
Category: Media Literacy, Participatory Learning, Schools

March 12, 2010
PLAYBACK: Survey: Teachers Choose Digital Classroom Resources Over Textbooks: Plus: Cyber-Bullying and the law; Teens check out digital space at public library; Learning through remixing and more—all in Spotlight’s Digital Media and Learning News Round-Up.
Category: After School, Libraries, Participatory Learning, Safety, Schools, Social Media

March 10, 2010
Can Cell Phones Help Teach Math?: When high school math teachers in rural North Carolina experimented with giving students problem sets via smartphones they found surprising and promising results.
Category: Mobile, Participatory Learning, Schools, Social Media, STEM

March 9, 2010
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?
Category: Civic Engagement, Participatory Learning, PolicyEric Gordon, David Booth,

March 8, 2010
Women in Sciences - Progress Stalled?: An in-depth article looks at the importance of women in STEM careers and what can be done to encourage more participation.
Category: Games, Identity, STEM

March 5, 2010
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.
Category: Mobile, Participatory Learning, Social Media

March 4, 2010
“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.
Category: Civic Engagement, Games, Identity, Digital Divide, Media Literacy, Mobile, Participatory Learning, Policy, Research and Studies, Social Media

March 3, 2010
What Does a 21st-Century Education Mean to You?: That’s the question the White House posed to the public this week. The government is using social networks to solicit feedback.
Category: Policy, Schools, Social Media

March 1, 2010
Has Digital Media Changed American Youth?: Guest author Katie Davis reports on a convening of researchers who met to discuss the potentials and perils of young people’s digital media activities.
Category: Civic Engagement, Ethics, Family, Participatory Learning, Research and Studies, Social Medianatalie,

February 26, 2010
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…
Category: Digital Divide, Media Literacy, Participatory Learning, Policy, Safety

February 25, 2010
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.
Category: Civic Engagement, Games, Family, Digital Divide, Media Literacy, Mobile, Participatory Learning, Research and Studies, Safety, Schools, Social Media, Virtual Worlds

February 24, 2010
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.
Category: Mobile, Participatory Learning, Social Media, Virtual Worlds

February 22, 2010
Add-Ons for Learning Online: Ten teams have been chosen to develop browser extensions that support social learning.
Category: Games, Participatory Learning, Social Media, STEM

February 19, 2010
Digital Writing Matters: New resources to help teachers use digital technologies to teach writing in the classroom. Plus, opportunities to publish student work.
Category: Media Literacy, Participatory Learning, Schools, Social MediaMechelle De Craene,

February 16, 2010
Barbie Gets Tech: Armed with pink glasses and a pink laptop, Barbie takes on the role of computer engineer—her 126th career.
Category: Identity, STEMjason, Laura S., Connie,

February 11, 2010
Kids Software, Video Games, Learning, and Literacy: Cultural anthropologist Mizuko Ito and games researcher James Paul Gee talk about games as learning tools in two recent podcasts.
Category: Games, Research and Studies, Schools

February 10, 2010
Meet the iGeneration: Younger than Millennials and more wired, this newly named demographic has high expectations of the world around them. Plus, teens at a tech conference plot the future.
Category: Identity, Social Media, STEM

February 9, 2010
Got Game? Digital Media and Learning Competition Offers $50,000 for Gaming Ideas: If you can bridge learning and gaming, apply by Feb. 15 for the chance to win cash awards and recognition from leading game makers. The public is also invited to offer feedback on entries.
Category: Civic Engagement, Games, Digital Media and Learning Competition, Participatory Learning