June 22nd, 2009
Educating the Digital Generation: Kicking off our ongoing series “Game Changers,” afterschool leaders, teachers, and administrators talk about how the field must adapt to better prepare students for the future.

June 19th, 2009
Tools for Teaching Digital Literacies: A series of videos by Project New Media Literacies helps educators cultivate new media literacies in their students. 

June 17th, 2009
Digital Youth Portrait: Gamer, Video Producer: The Digital Generation Project presents video portraits of the lives of young students from around the country who are using digital media to learn, communicate, and socialize in new and exciting…

June 15th, 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.

June 8th, 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…

June 2nd, 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 29th, 2009
Edutopia Announces Digital Generation Project: Online video portraits chronicle the lives of today’s digital youth.

May 28th, 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.

May 25th, 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.

May 24th, 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. 

May 21st, 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…

May 20th, 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.

May 18th, 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…

May 14th, 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…

May 6th, 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. 

May 1st, 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.

May 1st, 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.

April 29th, 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. 

April 23rd, 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. 

April 15th, 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.