February 20, 2008
[Regblogged] Davidson & Goldberg: The Digital Media and Learning Competition: Tomorow HASTAC will be announcing the projects that have won the inaugural Digital Media and Learning Competition. In preparation, we reblog Cathy Davidson & David Theo Goldberg’s three-part series on the Competition from their HASTAC…
Category: Civic-Engagement, Credibility, Ecology-of-Games, Identity, Race-Ethnicity, Unexpected

February 14, 2008
[Regblogged] John Palfrey: The MacArthur Series on Digital Media and Learning: We reblog John Palfrey’s piece from last month about the new MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning just out this past December from MIT…
Category: Civic-Engagement, Credibility, Ecology-of-Games, Identity, Race-Ethnicity, Unexpected

February 14, 2008
Event Recap: Civil Liberties and Virtual Worlds—photos, podcasts and more: On January 28, the MacArthur Foundation co-hosted its second event in a virtual world.  The topic was ‘civil liberties and virtual worlds,’ featuring Jack Balkin of Yale Law School and Robin Harper of Linden Lab…
Category: Civic-Engagement, Credibility, Ecology-of-Games, Identity, Race-Ethnicity, Unexpected

February 12, 2008
Barab and Gresalfi: Examining the Effects of Game-Based Curricula Across the World: Sasha Barab and Melissa Gresalfi, professors in learning sciences at Indiana University, discuss their work scaling a multi-user game-based curricula, Quest Atlantis, in classrooms across the world.
Category: Ecology-of-Games

February 7, 2008
Suzanne Seggerman: Launching the New Knowledge Network: Suzanne Seggerman discusses the work of the Digital Innovations Group and Games for Change in creating the new social networking and learning space for the emerging field of digital media and learning. 
Category: Ecology-of-Games

February 5, 2008
Natalie Rodic: Youth Media Exchange: Natalie Rodic from Taking It Global discusses their work with Global Kids leveraging social networks to support youth media production on global issues.
Category: Civic-Engagement

February 4, 2008
Mimi Ito: 24/7: A DIY Video Summit: Mimi Ito previews the DIY Video Summit, convening Feb 8-10th at USC.
Category: UnexpectedDK,

January 27, 2008
Douglas Thomas: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. For Avatars?: The Director of USC’s Institute for Network Culture previews Monday’s discussion in Second Life by asking what it means to consider human and civil rights in virtual worlds. 
Category: Unexpected

January 27, 2008
Barry Joseph: Planned Activities for Virtual Worlds and the Public Good: Forecasting upcoming work by Global Kids to explore the potential of virtual worlds within the non-profit, learning, and philanthropic communities
Category: Unexpected

January 24, 2008
Online Discussion: Civil Liberties and Virtual Worlds (January 28, Webcast and in Second Life): MacArthur President Jonathan Fanton will host a panel discussion on “Philanthropy and Virtual Worlds: Considering Civil Liberties” on January 28. 
Category: Civic-Engagement, Credibility, Ecology-of-Games, Identity, Race-Ethnicity, Unexpected

January 22, 2008
Alex Quinn:  Designing Real World Games for the Real World: PETLab’s co-director discusses plans for social issue game designs for university and after-school.
Category: Ecology-of-Games

January 17, 2008
Colleen Macklin: PETLab, Prototyping Play: The chair of Design and Technology at Parsons School of Design discusses their partnership with Games for Change to create a new collaborative environment, PETlab, that gives everyone a chance to be a designer.
Category: Ecology-of-GamesTom Hoffman, Colleen Macklin,

January 15, 2008
Davidson & Goldberg: Models of Visionary Learning Institutions: HASTAC co-founders solicit feedback for their project on the future of learning institutions in a digital age.
Category: Unexpected

January 14, 2008
Andrew Flanagin and Miriam Metzger: Kids, Credibility, and Digital Media: Survey to provide first-ever comprehensive look at kids’ perceptions of the credibility of online information.
Category: Credibility

January 10, 2008
Eszter Hargittai and Peter Miller: Tracking Youth Digital Media Use: Through an extensive review of existing work and expertise on youth digital media uses, researchers from Northwestern University will assess the feasibility of a longitudinal study on the topic. They welcome pointers to work they…
Category: UnexpectedDK,

January 10, 2008
Jonathan Fanton:  Looking Forward to MacArthur’s Second Year in Digital Media and Learning: MacArthur’s President looks forward to an exciting second year of the program in Digital Media and Learning and announces support for new projects.
Category: Unexpected

December 20, 2007
David Buckingham: School’s Out?: A co-editor of new International Journal of Learning and Media (IJLM) asks: Do schools still have a place in the age of digital media?
Category: UnexpectedJune, Karen Moffat,

December 18, 2007
Tara McPherson: Researching Multimedia Using Multimedia: A co-editor of the new International Journal of Learning and Media (IJLM) discusses using the digital forms they study in presenting research.
Category: Unexpected

December 17, 2007
Katie Salen: The International Journal of Learning and Media (IJLM): Katie Salen announces the birth of a new journal from MIT press, co-edited by Salen, David Buckingham, and Tara McPherson.
Category: UnexpectedPoy,

December 14, 2007
Event Recap: How Technology is Changing Kids and Learning: Experts in the field of digital media and learning spoke Wednesday evening at the Brattle theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The event celebrated the publication of the MacArthur Series on Digital Media and Learning now available…
Category: Unexpected