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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November 27th, 2007
Jim Gee: The Repertoire of Human Identities and the Digital World: Jim Gee introduces a new series of posts from the Games, Learning and Society Group at the University of Wisconsin about the intersection between digital learning and identity. 

November 13th, 2007
Doug Thomas: Learning More Than You Think in Virtual Worlds: An associate professor at the Annenberg School of Communication at USC says kids may be learning more in virtual worlds than you think. Doug Thomas previews his talk at tomorrow’s public…

November 13th, 2007
Barry Joseph: Using Virtual Worlds to Foster Activism Through Youth Media: A panelist at tomorrow’s public forum on virtual worlds and learning talks about his work with youth creating Machinima. Youth from Global kids’ after school program worked in virtual worlds to create a film about…

November 8th, 2007
Public Forum to Explore Kids’ Learning in Virtual Worlds: At a public forum in Los Angeles on November 14th experts in media and education will explore what kids are doing in virtual worlds and what it means for their values, identity and sense of…

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 16th, 2007
Sonja Baumer: Self Production and Social Feedback Through Online Video-Sharing on YouTube: Psychologist Sonja Baumer analyzes how YouTube video production and sharing helps young people gain better self-understanding.
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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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August 9th, 2007
Heather Horst: Coming of Age in Networked Public Culture: How has digital media transformed the ways in which youth navigate their place in the world? 

August 9th, 2007
Katynka Martínez: Pacman, MacArthur Park, and El Imigrante: Katynka discusses new Los Angeles narratives created by urban youth. Who would be chasing Pacman if he were navigating the city streets of LA?

August 7th, 2007
Patricia Lange: Youth, Identity, and Online Community: Youth today are increasingly living mediated lives in which video cameras, video production and sharing figure prominently in recording and influencing every day, social encounters between co-located and dispersed youth. By studying the dynamics of…
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August 6th, 2007
Laura Robinson: Information the Wiki Way: How much do high school students vary in terms of their digital media evaluation skills when they assess the information on Wikipedia compared to other digital information? 
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August 6th, 2007
Connie Yowell: In Memory of Peter Lyman: We present the next series of blog posts in memory of Peter Lyman, a valued colleague and leader in the field of digital media and learning who died last month. Over the next few weeks,…

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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