March 19th, 2008
Rik Panganiban: The International Justice Center in Second Life: Global Kids’ Second Life Producer and Program Associate, Rik Panganiban, announces the launch this week of the International Justice Center in Second Life, an education and action clearinghouse supporting a global constituency…

March 18th, 2008
Steven Gerber: Internet Meets the International Criminal Court: In conjunction with the first International Justice Award and the new International Justice Center in Second Life, MacArthur’s Program Officer in Human Rights and International Justice discusses the International Criminal Court and its increasing connections…

March 6th, 2008
Kevin Denney: Archiving Learning: When are things ready for storing? A member of the Illinois Institute of Technology research faculty looks at understanding how people collect and store data and objects.
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March 3rd, 2008
Julia Stasch: Reflections on the HASTAC-MacArthur Competition Winners: Vice President Julia Stasch of the MacArthur Foundation reflects on the inaugural winners as a cohort. 

February 28th, 2008
[Reblogged] Cathy Davidson: When ‘No’ Means ‘Try Again’: Winners were announced last week in the inaugural Digital Media and Learning Competition. Here we reblog Cathy Davidson’s piece from the HASTAC blog on the challenges of providing comments and feedback…

February 21st, 2008
Inaugural Digital Media and Learning Competition Selects Winning Projects: HASTAC announces seventeen winners in the first Digital Media and Learning Competition. To see a list of winners and their project descriptions visit the competition website at http://www.dmlcompetition.net. 
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February 20th, 2008
[Reblogged] Davidson & Goldberg: The Digital Media and Learning Competition: Tomorow HASTAC will be announcing the projects that have won the inaugural Digital Media and Learning Competition. In preparation, we reblog Cathy Davidson & David Theo Goldberg’s three-part series on the Competition from their HASTAC…

February 14th, 2008
[Reblogged] John Palfrey: The MacArthur Series on Digital Media and Learning: We reblog John Palfrey’s piece from last month about the new MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning just out this past December from MIT…

February 14th, 2008
Event Recap: Civil Liberties and Virtual Worlds—photos, podcasts and more: On January 28, the MacArthur Foundation co-hosted its second event in a virtual world.  The topic was ‘civil liberties and virtual worlds,’ featuring Jack Balkin of Yale Law School and Robin Harper of Linden Lab…

February 12th, 2008
Barab and Gresalfi: Examining the Effects of Game-Based Curricula Across the World: Sasha Barab and Melissa Gresalfi, professors in learning sciences at Indiana University, discuss their work scaling a multi-user game-based curricula, Quest Atlantis, in classrooms across the world.

February 7th, 2008
Suzanne Seggerman: Launching the New Knowledge Network: Suzanne Seggerman discusses the work of the Digital Innovations Group and Games for Change in creating the new social networking and learning space for the emerging field of digital media and learning. 

January 24th, 2008
Online Discussion: Civil Liberties and Virtual Worlds (January 28, Webcast and in Second Life): MacArthur President Jonathan Fanton will host a panel discussion on “Philanthropy and Virtual Worlds: Considering Civil Liberties” on January 28. 

January 22nd, 2008
Alex Quinn:  Designing Real World Games for the Real World: PETLab’s co-director discusses plans for social issue game designs for university and after-school.

January 17th, 2008
Colleen Macklin: PETLab, Prototyping Play: The chair of Design and Technology at Parsons School of Design discusses their partnership with Games for Change to create a new collaborative environment, PETlab, that gives everyone a chance to be a designer.
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December 10th, 2007
Kurt Squire: Building Academic Identities through After School Gaming: How can an after school program use commercial games like Civilization to transform struggling students?

December 10th, 2007
Constance Steinkuehler: Identity, Science Literacy, & the New Pop Cosmopolite: Are games needed to round out science education?

December 6th, 2007
Elisabeth Hayes: Becoming a new kind of girl through gaming: How can modding The Sims enable girls to develop tech-savvy identities?

December 6th, 2007
Rich Halverson: Games and Leadership: Can building pyramids and killing Lokthar the Ice Lord make you a better leader? 
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December 3rd, 2007
David Shaffer: More Than Who You Are: What does it mean to “become a new kind of person” through playing a game?

November 29th, 2007
Erica Rosenfeld Halverson: Identity Production in Youth Filmmaking: Youth are using digital media to work through complex issues of who they are and how they do (& don’t) fit into their communities.
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