November 13th, 2007
Barry Joseph: Using Virtual Worlds to Foster Activism Through Youth Media: A panelist at tomorrow’s public forum on virtual worlds and learning talks about his work with youth creating Machinima. Youth from Global kids’ after school program worked in virtual worlds to create a film about…

November 8th, 2007
Public Forum to Explore Kids’ Learning in Virtual Worlds: At a public forum in Los Angeles on November 14th experts in media and education will explore what kids are doing in virtual worlds and what it means for their values, identity and sense of…

August 27th, 2007
Early Days of Competition Draw Crowd: Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg of HASTAC (www.hastac.org) report in on the interest generated by the launch of the Digital Media and Learning Competition last week. The Competition will award…
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August 22nd, 2007
Group Discussion on “Virtual Success”—will you know it when you see it?: Lucy Bernholz hosts a discussion with the funding community on what will philanthropy accomplish in virtual worlds, and how will we know?
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August 16th, 2007
Sonja Baumer: Self Production and Social Feedback Through Online Video-Sharing on YouTube: Psychologist Sonja Baumer analyzes how YouTube video production and sharing helps young people gain better self-understanding.
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August 14th, 2007
Competition Launches: HASTAC calls for applications to new Digital Media and Learning Competition: The MacArthur Foundation is supporting the Digital Media and Learning Competition under the leadership of HASTAC (www.hastac.org).  Designed to support new projects that might not come to the Foundation’s attention through other channels, the…
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August 9th, 2007
Heather Horst: Coming of Age in Networked Public Culture: How has digital media transformed the ways in which youth navigate their place in the world? 

August 9th, 2007
Katynka Martínez: Pacman, MacArthur Park, and El Imigrante: Katynka discusses new Los Angeles narratives created by urban youth. Who would be chasing Pacman if he were navigating the city streets of LA?

August 7th, 2007
Patricia Lange: Youth, Identity, and Online Community: Youth today are increasingly living mediated lives in which video cameras, video production and sharing figure prominently in recording and influencing every day, social encounters between co-located and dispersed youth. By studying the dynamics of…
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August 6th, 2007
Laura Robinson: Information the Wiki Way: How much do high school students vary in terms of their digital media evaluation skills when they assess the information on Wikipedia compared to other digital information? 
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August 6th, 2007
Connie Yowell: In Memory of Peter Lyman: We present the next series of blog posts in memory of Peter Lyman, a valued colleague and leader in the field of digital media and learning who died last month. Over the next few weeks,…

June 12th, 2007
Emerging Details for June 22nd Event: Bookmark this post for emerging details on the event mentioned by Jonathan Fanton.
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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 10th, 2007
The Unlimited Frontiers: In Howard Gardner’s final post, he explores how the American Context shapes the affects 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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