May 1, 2009
Special Issue Explores Participatory Culture and Digital Media: In the Spring 2009 issue of Threshold, MacArthur grantees define participatory culture and discuss its future.
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April 29, 2009
Saturday Webcast and Conference to Explore Participatory Culture: Project New Media Literacies will host Learning in a Participatory Culture conference this Saturday, May 2, 2009, on the MIT campus, from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm. 
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April 23, 2009
Museums and Libraries Partner with Researchers to Explore Impact of Digital Media: Webwise conference draws museum and library professionals to address the big issues facing cultural institutions in a digital age. 
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April 20, 2009
Creating the Next Generation of Writers: National Writing Project explores most effective ways to help young people become accomplished writers in new media environments.
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April 17, 2009
MacArthur’s Digital Media and Learning Competition Winners Announced: Can digital media be harnessed to save the global fish population, help children in developing countries access educational opportunities and teach at-risk youth to become entrepreneurs?
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April 15, 2009
Appreciating What the World Says Back to Us: MacArthur grantee James Gee calls for student assessments to move beyond measuring facts to assessing how students use external feedback to figure out how to take the next step.
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April 13, 2009
Learning How to Learn: Nichole Pinkard, Director of Innovation at the University of Chicago’s Urban Education Institute, discusses teaching and learning in a digital world, including the expanding notion of teacher and…
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April 10, 2009
A New Way to Impart Education Curriculum and Practice?: A group of researchers wonders whether sharing worthwhile instructional practices is more likely to occur if it emerges from digital social networks.
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April 8, 2009
Students, Put Down Those Pencils and Pick Up Joysticks!: In a March 25 op-ed in the New York Daily News, leaders of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop argue that video games are not…
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April 7, 2009
Digital Media and Learning Competition Showcase and Announcement of 2008 Winners: • 2008 winners to be announced on April 16 • 2007 winners to be showcased in Chicago on April 17
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April 1, 2009
Dialogues to Bridge Online Generation Gap: Parents, teachers, and teens: Sign up for the first-ever cross-generational conversation about digital ethics from April 13–May 4, 2009, and help shape a national conversation about the promise, and perils, of life…
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March 31, 2009
Positive Reviews of ‘Civic Life Online’: Reviews are coming in on the MacArthur Series volume, Civic Life Online, edited by Lance Bennett. The series examines how civic engagement among digital youth may differ from…
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March 26, 2009
News Programs Highlight ‘Our Courts’: Today, only three in ten Americans can name the three branches of government, let alone explain what they do.
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March 19, 2009
Assessing Development, Not “Static Stuff”: Professor James Paul Gee is leading a MacArthur-supported project to explore new models and tools for assessing 21st-century learning. Here, he continues a series of posts on the topic of assessment.
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March 13, 2009
Lucy Bernholz: Design Principles for Field Building: How do digital realities influence field building in digital media and learning?
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March 10, 2009
James Paul Gee: Games as their Test: In good video games, the game is already its own best test; no one needs to give a test after the game is over. Why can’t assessment work this way in other areas of learning?
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March 6, 2009
WebWise Conference Debrief—featuring photos of grant-supported projects: Last week, more than a dozen MacArthur-supported projects gathered at this year’s WebWise conference in Washington to demonstrate their work, and explore intersections with libraries and museums.
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February 23, 2009
Recent Links in Digital Media & Learning: As is our custom, we’ve gathered a few links in digital media and learning from around the web that might be of interest to our readers. They include a forum and article on simulation games,…
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February 13, 2009
Michael H. Levine and Carly Shuler: Pockets of Potential: Researchers from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Street Workshop detail the recommendations in their latest study that explores the potential of mobile…
Category: Civic-Engagement, Credibility, Ecology-of-Games, Identity, Race-Ethnicity, UnexpectedTom Hoffman, Carly Shuler,

February 13, 2009
NPR: Interactive Games Make Museums A Place To Play: We reblog a recent NPR story about the efforts of museums to harness enthusiasm around games to get people more engaged with their collections.
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