December 4th, 2007
Panel Discussion & Second Life Simulcast on Digital Media and Learning: Three experts will talk about how technology is changing kids and learning in a panel discussion in Cambridge on December 12th. The event celebrates the publication of the MacArthur Series on Digital Media & Learning.…

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 5th, 2007
Josh Fouts on Foreign Policy 2.0: Building Vibrant Communities Across Techno-Cultures: How can the 3-D Immersive Web and virtual worlds be used to better facilitate international understanding?

November 1st, 2007
Kim Gomez: Documenting 21st Century Learning: Concluding our series on the Digital Youth Network, a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago chronicles the research component of the project.

October 30th, 2007
Tené Gray: Artists as Teachers: Tené Gray discusses using professional learning communities to support the development of artists as teachers. 

October 29th, 2007
Nichole Pinkard: Girl Power, Encouraging Sixth Grade Girls to Give Video Games a Try: Digital Youth Network Director Nichole Pinkard talks about using traditional classroom context to introduce girls to game design.
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October 25th, 2007
Akili Lee: Designing a Social Networking Site: The Digital Youth Network’s program director talks about the creation of the program’s new media driven social networking website, Remix World, that allows youth to share and critique each other’s work.

October 23rd, 2007
Mike Hawkins: The Remix Renaissance: Brother Mike teaches multi-media literacy, radio, and spoken word/hip hop for the Digital Youth Network. In this post he discusses his work with students in Chicago in a multi-media arts class. His students created their…
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October 22nd, 2007
Nichole Pinkard: Preparing Urban Youth to be Multiliterate: A researcher with the University of Chicago’s Center for Urban School Improvement asks how we prepare young people for the multiliterate world of the future.  This begins a two-week long series on the Digital Youth…
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October 18th, 2007
Competition Closes with Over 1000 Entries: The application deadline for the Digital Media and Learning Competition closed this week with an unprecedented response. In this post Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg report in on…
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September 7th, 2007
Cathy Davidson: Digital Learning Is Not I.T.: Feedback from the Competition in Digital Media and Learning launch prompts this HASTAC leader to analyze “digital learning” versus “instructional technology.”
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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 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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July 5th, 2007
[REBLOGGED] MacArthur Highlights from the National Media Education Conference: MacArthur is supporting Henry Jenkins and Renee Hobbs to define media literacy practices in the 21st Century.

June 28th, 2007
Event Recap: Philanthropy in Virtual Worlds—photos, podcasts and more: On June 22, MacArthur Foundation President Jonathan Fanton and Linden Lab CEO Philip Rosedale (a.k.a. Philip Linden) had an historic conversation about how virtual worlds could revolutionize philanthropy.  At the event, Fanton also announced…

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?