August 28th, 2008
Bosco & Krueger: Responding to the Digital Disconnect at School: The CEO of the Consortium for School Networking and a Professor Emeritus at Western Michigan University discuss a new initiative designed to assess how school leaders are affecting the use of Web 2.0 applications in…

August 18th, 2008
Second Digital Media and Learning Competition Focuses on Participatory Learning, Goes International: HASTAC co-founders Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg announce launch of 2008 Digital Media and Learning Competition.

August 12th, 2008
Thomas & Kafai: Tweens and Reproductive Health in Virtual Worlds: Professors at USC and the University of Pennsylvania describe a new research effort aimed at understanding how tweens explore and share information about reproductive health in the virtual world of Whyville.net.

August 6th, 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.
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July 23rd, 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.

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

June 24th, 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…

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

June 12th, 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.

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…
Comments: Clinton Schaff,

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.…