June 15, 2009
Turning Point for Video Games with Learning Goals?: A lot has changed since 2004, when the Games for Change conference in New York City first started. Spotlight reporter Heather Chaplin reports on G4C in 2009.
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June 10, 2009
‘Modern-Day Fred Rogers’ Nurture Kids and Creativity: The Pittsburgh-based Grable Foundation leads an ad hoc group that is collaborating to educate and inspire children through innovative uses of technology. The foundation’s executive director shares an overview with Spotlight.
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June 8, 2009
Webcast to Help Teachers Reimagine Writing in a Digital World: On June 10th join editors of Teaching the New Writing, a new book from The National Writing Project, a MacArthur grantee. They will discuss new…
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June 4, 2009
Field Museum’s Virtual Reef a Hit: WhyReef piques teens’ interest in coral reefs and the ecosystem and helps them become scientific problem-solvers.
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June 3, 2009
How Museums and Libraries Are Using Digital Media: In an ongoing series of blog posts at Futures of Learning, MacArthur grantee Anne Balsamo and colleagues explore how museums and libraries are cultivating “technological imagination.”
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June 2, 2009
Promising Evidence for Using Immersive Games in Classrooms: Science students make greater gains in MacArthur grantee David Birchfield and colleagues’ SMALLab than in regular classrooms.
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May 29, 2009
Edutopia Announces Digital Generation Project: Online video portraits chronicle the lives of today’s digital youth.
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May 28, 2009
June 4th Webinar to Explore “Engaging the Digital Generation”: Teacher Vicki Davis and researcher Nichole Pinkard will be presenters at the upcoming Edutopia webinar on June 4th.
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May 25, 2009
Open Government 2.0: Obama asks public to take part in digital brainstorming session on government transparency policies; provides open access to government data.
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May 24, 2009
Reconciling a Media Sensation with Data: Grantee Eszter Hargittai counters the claim that Facebook users have lower grades using data from her recent study. 
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May 21, 2009
More than Just Talk: Learning with Mobile Media: How will we use our cell phones in the future? Researchers Kurt Squire & Seann Dikkers discuss the work they are doing on the Mobile Media Learning Project to push…
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May 20, 2009
‘Aha’ Moments - Gamer Contest Calls for Student Video Submissions: The Learning Games Network and AMD are asking student gamers to share how they think education can and will change with digital games.
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May 18, 2009
Public Forum featuring Cory Ondrejka and Jonathan Fanton on MacArthur Island: Today’s forum examined the future of virtual worlds and philanthropy.  Pictures and videos will be forthcoming.
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May 18, 2009
Ideas are (Potential) Actions: Facts are tools for action in specific domains. This is pretty clear in fields like physics. But what about the humanities? Professor James Paul Gee, a MacArthur grantee, asks whether these…
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May 14, 2009
‘Rise of Nations’: A Model for Assessment?: The video game Rise of Nations contains the kernel of what a new and deeper system of assessment might look like. MacArthur grantee James Gee says games like this should help us think…
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May 11, 2009
RezEd Review: A Year in Learning and Virtual Worlds: To inaugurate its second year, RezEd.org is releasing the latest RezEd Review, featuring edited transcripts of 22 RezEd podcast interviews from the past year.
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May 7, 2009
Public Forum Invitation: join Fanton and Ondrejka on MacArthur Island, May 18: To mark the launch of MacArthur Island within Second Life, this forum will examine the future of virtual worlds and philanthropy.  There will be a simultaneous broadcast in standard web video.
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May 6, 2009
Where Learning Happens: MacArthur grantee Brigid Barron sits down with Informal Science for a wide-ranging interview on looking for learning in unexpected places. 
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May 5, 2009
Virtual Worlds: Emerging Trends for 2009: MacArthur grantee Global Kids reflects on six trends in virtual worlds around learning and philanthropy.
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May 1, 2009
New Study on Use of Web 2.0 Applications in Classrooms: Study spotlights the discrepancy between attitudes toward Web 2.0 and use in the classroom.
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