August 6, 2008
James Paul Gee: The Our Courts Project: A professor at Arizona State University describes his work with Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor to engage kids with civics through digital learning.
Category: Civic-Engagement, Ecology-of-Games

August 4, 2008
Linda Burch: Engaging Parents In Young People’s Digital Media Lives: How can parents gain the understanding, skills and confidence to help young people grow and thrive in the new media culture? The Chief Education and Strategy Officer at Common Sense Media describes a new project…
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July 23, 2008
David Birchfield: Gaming SMALLab: A professor at Arizona State University describes a new partnership with Katie Salen and the Institute of Play to design a framework for game-like, mixed-reality learning.
Category: Ecology-of-Games

July 21, 2008
Jonathan Fanton: New Grants this Summer: MacArthur’s President announces new grants in Digital Media and Learning. 
Category: Civic-Engagement, Credibility, Ecology-of-Games, Identity, Race-Ethnicity, Unexpected

June 24, 2008
[Reblogged] John Palfrey: The Ecology of Games: We reblog John Palfrey’s recent piece on the Ecology of Games volume in the MacArthur Series on Digital Media and Learning, edited by Katie…
Category: Ecology-of-Games

June 18, 2008
[Reblogged]: Games for Change Festival Coverage: We reblog a local NY1 piece on the Fifth Annual Games for Change Festival. 
Category: Ecology-of-Games

June 12, 2008
David Shaffer: Epistemic Games, the Movie: A University of Wisconsin Professor shares a video about work developing “epistemic games” that help players learn to think like professionals in the knowledge economy.
Category: Ecology-of-Games

June 10, 2008
Andrew Flanagin: Digital Media & Learning at the ICA Conference: A UCSB Professor reports on the recent Digital Media & Learning reception held at the International Communication Association’s Annual Conference in Montreal.
Category: Civic-Engagement, Credibility, Ecology-of-Games, Identity, Race-Ethnicity, Unexpected

June 9, 2008
Cathy Davidson: TechnoTravels/Telemobility, HASTAC on the Move: HASTAC’s co-founder reflects on the highlights of their recent conference: education, inspiration, curiosity, and awe.
Category: Unexpected

June 5, 2008
Craig Wacker: Recent Conferences Important to Digital Media and Learning: A MacArthur program officer introduces two posts on recent conferences relevant to the field.
Category: Civic-Engagement, Credibility, Ecology-of-Games, Identity, Race-Ethnicity, Unexpected

June 4, 2008
Connie Yowell: Best of Links in Digital Media & Learning: MacArthur’s Education Director introduces a new monthly feature on Spotlight. Best of links will highlight exciting work in the field from around the web. 
Category: Unexpected W. Glennon,

May 29, 2008
Lucy Bernholz: Building the New Field of Digital Media and Learning: What does it mean to build a new field? The president of Blueprint Research & Design applies lessons from the past to field building in the global digital future. 
Category: Civic-Engagement, Credibility, Ecology-of-Games, Identity, Race-Ethnicity, Unexpected

May 29, 2008
Anne Balsamo: Networked Learning Sites: What is the future of libraries and museums in the digital age? How can digital media help these institutions enhance informal learning? A professor at the University of Southern California…
Category: Civic-Engagement, Credibility, Ecology-of-Games, Identity, Race-Ethnicity, UnexpectedKim Christen,

May 27, 2008
Ito & Goldberg: A Digital Media and Learning Networked Studio: David Theo Goldberg and Mimi Ito detail plans to develop a “research collaboratory” on digital media and learning.
Category: Civic-Engagement, Credibility, Ecology-of-Games, Identity, Race-Ethnicity, Unexpected

May 22, 2008
Jonathan Fanton: New Grants in Digital Media and Learning: MacArthur’s President announces new grants in Digital Media and Learning.
Category: Unexpected

May 14, 2008
Cory Ondrejka:  A Challenge for Public Good: Second Life’s co-founder and visiting professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication describes an invitation to the residents of Second Life to imagine new ways that virtual worlds can be used to make a…
Category: Civic-Engagement, Credibility, Ecology-of-Games, Identity, Race-Ethnicity, UnexpectedClinton Schaff,

May 13, 2008
Connie Yowell: Stanford Public Forum Video & Blog Coverage: MacArthur’s education director follows up on the recent public forum held at Stanford last month, “From MySpace to Hip Hop: New Media in the Everyday Lives of Youth.”
Category: Civic-Engagement, Credibility, Ecology-of-Games, Identity, Race-Ethnicity, Unexpected

May 9, 2008
Connie Yowell: Logging into the Playground: New research on parental views of the role of digital media in kids’ lives will be presented today at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center’s First Annual Symposium
Category: Civic-Engagement, Credibility, Ecology-of-Games, Identity, Race-Ethnicity, Unexpected

May 7, 2008
Jim Bower: Building a Virtual Community of Learners: The creator of Whyville concludes our series on the affordances of virtual worlds with discussion of why he believes users come back to the community and stay. 
Category: Civic-Engagement, Credibility, Ecology-of-Games, Identity, Race-Ethnicity, Unexpected

May 5, 2008
Yasmin Kafai: The Learning Affordances of Pimples in Virtual Worlds: An associate professor of education from UCLA shares learnings from her study of the annual virtual public health epidemic in Whyville.net, “Whypox.” This continues our series on the
Category: Civic-Engagement, Credibility, Ecology-of-Games, Identity, Race-Ethnicity, Unexpected