August 18th, 2008
Davidson & Goldberg: The Next Digital Media and Learning Competition: HASTAC co-founders announce launch of 2008 Digital Media and Learning Competition.

July 21st, 2008
Jonathan Fanton: New Grants this Summer: MacArthur’s President announces new grants in Digital Media and Learning. 

June 10th, 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.

June 5th, 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.

May 29th, 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. 

May 29th, 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…
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May 27th, 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.

May 14th, 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…
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May 13th, 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.”

May 9th, 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

May 7th, 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. 

May 5th, 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

May 1st, 2008
Constance Steinkuehler: Digital Montessori for Big Kids: An assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin responds to Connie’s post on the “affordances” of virtual worlds. She describes her work studying adolescent boys in an after school online gaming club.…

April 29th, 2008
The Affordances of Virtual Worlds and 21st Century Learning Environments: Connie Yowell asks: What can we learn from young people about why they find virtual worlds so appealing?
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April 24th, 2008
Barry Joseph: Comparing Apples and Oranges in Virtual Worlds: Global Kids reflects on lessons learned from a massively multiworld simulcast of Kofi Annan’s receipt of the MacArthur Award for International Justice.

April 23rd, 2008
Dilan Mahendran: Expression, Music & Meaning in the Digital Age: In conjunction with our upcoming forum on New Media in the Lives of Everyday Youth at Stanford this evening, a researcher from the University of California…

April 17th, 2008
Sam Gilbert: Digital Youth and Online Privacy: How do we help young people think through the promises and perils of disclosure online? A Harvard researcher concludes our series on teaching media ethics and literacy in the digital age.

April 17th, 2008
Andrea Flores: Mad Men, Teaching Authorial Responsibility: A Harvard researcher outlines a curricular activity designed to teach authorial responsibility and copyright. This continues our conversation about teaching media literacy and ethics in the digital age. 

April 15th, 2008
Stephen Schultze: The Inspired Highlighter: We continue our conversation about teaching media literacy and ethics. Stephen Schultze describes a specific learning activity designed to help students explore norms of ownership, authorship, and copyright in the digital age.

April 15th, 2008
John Francis: Let’s Collaborate: John Francis describes the development of learning modules that introduce young people to ethical issues, media literacy skills, and ownership/authorship themes. This is the second of a five-part series about the collaboration between Harvard’s
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