June 4th, 2007
The Future of Learning Institutions: It is time to consider how learning institutions can be transformed and supported in new distributed configurations.
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June 1st, 2007
Schools are a Last Vestige of an Industrial Age: What will schools be like when they act like information age organizations?
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May 31st, 2007
ThinkeringSpaces: Why is tinkering a useful way to learn?

May 31st, 2007
ThinkeringSpaces: A New Idea for Libraries: MacArthur Awards Institute of Design at IIT Grant to Rethink Libraries

May 29th, 2007
The Future of Institutions: How (if at all) should institutions change as a result of digital media?
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April 2nd, 2007
AERA Reception Hosted by MacArthur: If you’re in Chicago next week, we’re hosting a reception at the AERA conference, which will bring together education professionals from around the world.

January 12th, 2007
Larry Johnson:  Who’s Listening to the Avatars?: Recent online conversations revealed a great disparity of perceptions on questions of identity, credibility, and civic engagement between those who have spent time in virtual worlds, and those who haven’t.  Is it right to reject…
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November 24th, 2006
Kate Wittenberg: Shifting from Publisher Authority to Participation: The vast amount of information now available can be either a benefit or an obstacle to effective learning.  Already, online social networks use a different system for credibility than the academic world.

November 23rd, 2006
Woolsey:  Credibility Does Persist Online, but Needs New Tools: Most suggest that credibility dissolves in the digital domain.  I think the opposite is true.  Traditional lineages persist, and we can respond to concerns by limiting access or further developing the net.

November 22nd, 2006
Deanna Kuhn: What develops?: Both children and adolescents exhibit weakness in evaluating evidence and in the metacongnitive ability to assess their own knowledge.
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November 22nd, 2006
Ronald E. Rice: increasing the diversity of “credibility signals”: The indicators of credibility operate at two levels: first that of content, and second of the medium itself. Both are directly affected by the sheer scale of the Internet.

November 21st, 2006
Kate Wittenberg: who will create new models for establishing credibility?: Mechanisms for establishing credibility are undergoing rapid change in the digital environment. It is unclear, however, who will guide these new credibility mechanisms.  Here, I consider one hypothetical publisher.

November 21st, 2006
Woolsey:  Credibility is a Human Issue: Humans continue to be the major source for credibility judgements, even as tools are better and better.  Both the young and the old contribute to the problem.

November 21st, 2006
This Week’s Theme: Credibility in Digital Media: Spotlighting voices drawn from the MacArthur Series online dialogs on credibility conducted earlier this month.
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November 20th, 2006
Credibility Online is Important and Difficult: The editors of the MacArthur Series volume on Credibility break down the issue for contemporary youth.

November 17th, 2006
Jessie Daniels: The Epistemology of White Supremacy: How do young people make sense of claims about race, racism and white supremacy they encounter online? 
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October 20th, 2006
danah boyd: coverage from MacArthur’s launch of the Digital Media and Learning Initiative: Yesterday i had the fortune to participate in the launch so that i could bringing you, our dear new readers, some sense of what took place.  First an overview, and then i want to dive…
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