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Tuesday 4th December 2007 12:00 pm

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.

Join us on Wednesday, December 12, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, MA, for a panel discussion, Totally Wired: How Technology is Changing Kids and Learning. Henry Jenkins, Katie Salen, and Howard Gardner will share their most recent thinking on the subject. It is in celebration of the publication of the MacArthur Series on Digital Media & Learning, which will be available online through MIT press starting December 12.

If you can’t join us for the event in person, you can watch it live on the web. In addition, the event is being live simulcast into Second Life at The University of Southern California’s Annenberg Island and Teen Second Life at the Global Kids Estate. A webcast of the event will also be made available in the days following the event.

If you plan to attend in person, please rsvp for the event by December 7.

Look for posts this week from panelists Katie Salen, Henry Jenkins, and Howard Gardner.

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