April 3rd, 2008
Connected Reflections: Learning, Meaning, and Civic Engagement in the Digital Age: Four provocative ideas from a recent AERA panel are highlighted by MacArthur Program Officer Benjamin Stokes, who connects each idea to the profile of a leading thinker on this website.

March 31st, 2008
Joseph Kahne: Democracy for Some: Today’s schools give white, higher achieving, and higher income youth far more civic learning opportunities.  Will digital media be any different?  In exploring this topic, MacArthur grantee Joe Kahne has received significant media attention.  Professor…

March 27th, 2008
[Regblogged] danah boyd: how youth find privacy in interstitial space: We reblog danah boyd’s recent piece about the race going on between parental surveillance vs. technology to assert privacy. boyd reminds us that youth have been trying to find ways to communicate outside the watchful…

March 25th, 2008
[Reblogged] Howard Gardner: The End of Literacy? Don’t Stop Reading.: Howard Gardner asks “What will happen to reading and writing in our time?” We reblog his piece from the Washington Post last month that examines the future of literacy. Howard Gardner is…

March 19th, 2008
Rik Panganiban: The International Justice Center in Second Life: Global Kids’ Second Life Producer and Program Associate, Rik Panganiban, announces the launch this week of the International Justice Center in Second Life, an education and action clearinghouse supporting a global constituency…

March 18th, 2008
Steven Gerber: Internet Meets the International Criminal Court: In conjunction with the first International Justice Award and the new International Justice Center in Second Life, MacArthur’s Program Officer in Human Rights and International Justice discusses the International Criminal Court and its increasing connections…

March 13th, 2008
[Regblogged] John Palfrey: Civic Life Online: Continuing our discussion of civics this week, we reblog John Palfrey’s recent piece on how digital media can engage youth online. John reacts to the new volume in the

March 10th, 2008
Lance Bennett: Investigating Youth Civic Learning and Engagement Online: How can informal online environments effectively engage the citizenship and learning styles of younger generations? University of Washington Professor Lance Bennett details his team’s work on the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement’s Digital Media…
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March 6th, 2008
Kevin Denney: Archiving Learning: When are things ready for storing? A member of the Illinois Institute of Technology research faculty looks at understanding how people collect and store data and objects.
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March 3rd, 2008
Julia Stasch: Reflections on the HASTAC-MacArthur Competition Winners: Vice President Julia Stasch of the MacArthur Foundation reflects on the inaugural winners as a cohort. 

February 28th, 2008
[Regblogged] Cathy Davidson: When ‘No’ Means ‘Try Again’: Winners were announced last week in the inaugural Digital Media and Learning Competition. Here we reblog Cathy Davidson’s piece from the HASTAC blog on the challenges of providing comments and feedback…

February 21st, 2008
Inaugural Digital Media and Learning Competition Selects Winning Projects: HASTAC announces seventeen winners in the first Digital Media and Learning Competition. To see a list of winners and their project descriptions visit the competition website at http://www.dmlcompetition.net. 
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February 20th, 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…

February 14th, 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…

February 14th, 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…

February 5th, 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.

January 24th, 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. 

November 27th, 2007
Yasmin Kafai, Participatory Competencies in Virtual Worlds: From Collaborative to Collective Agency: An associate professor at UCLA and panelist at the recent public forum continues our discussion on learning in virtual worlds. She asks what new skills might be needed to learn how to successfully engage with…

November 20th, 2007
Event Follow up: What are Kids Learning in Virtual Worlds?: A large crowd joined us in Los Angeles last week for an engaging discussion about what kids are learning in virtual worlds. This was our third Public Forum in Digital Media and Learning.

November 13th, 2007
Week’s Theme: Posts by Forum Panelists (re: Virtual Worlds and Learning): Connie Yowell introduces posts by four panelists while describing how MacArthur’s third public forum on digital media and learning builds on the prior two.
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