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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May 31st, 2007
ThinkeringSpaces: Why is tinkering a useful way to learn?

May 31st, 2007
ThinkeringSpaces: A New Idea for Libraries: MacArthur Awards Institute of Design at IIT Grant to Rethink Libraries

May 29th, 2007
The Future of Institutions: How (if at all) should institutions change as a result of digital media?
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May 18th, 2007
Update on Competition and Knowledge Network: Stay tuned for more information coming this summer.
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April 6th, 2007
Howard Gardner: A Life-Altering Impact?: Howard Gardner continues the conversation about where the most profound effects of digital media will occur. He suggests that digital media may have the power to qualitatively change life experience.

April 4th, 2007
Is the Medium the Message?: Howard Gardner explores the question: Do the new digital media change everything?
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April 2nd, 2007
AERA Reception Hosted by MacArthur: If you’re in Chicago next week, we’re hosting a reception at the AERA conference, which will bring together education professionals from around the world.

January 19th, 2007
[Reblogged] podcast on MacSeries use of Learning Times: This podcast reflects across three volumes of the MacSeries’s online discussions.  Topics include moral panics, games, and modeling safe practices.

January 5th, 2007
Youth Discussion #2: Teens Reflect on Virtual Summer Camp: When you think of summer camp what images come to mind? Perhaps getting outdoors, leaving one’s home, physical challenges, and bugs? Well, for participants in last summer Camp Global Kids program, in the teen grid…
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December 26th, 2006
Youth Discussion: the Role of Adults within Online Teen Spaces: What role should adults play, or not play, within online teen spaces? Global Kids, which works with teens both in person and online, took the question to a number of teens familiar with
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December 3rd, 2006
How are young people using digital media in surprising ways?: “What surprises you about young people’s use of digital media?” In the MacArthur open forums, we asked teachers to post their answers to this question.  Here’s a quick sampling of their responses.
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December 2nd, 2006
Justine Cassell: disparity between girls’ use and career choices: Why doesn’t girls’ use of digital media result in girls believing they are good at the use of digital media?
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November 30th, 2006
Christian Sandvig: Is A&R the new R&D?: Young programmers may be the new rock stars, if digital media allow anyone to make their own software and content.  Is it true that the next big thing on the Internet can be “scouted” and…

November 29th, 2006
Steve Anderson: Future of Digital Education Panel: How is higher education evolving to accommodate digital technologies in the classroom, changing sensibilities among students and new forms of knowledge, learning and expression? A panel discussion in Second Life takes on these questions in…

November 28th, 2006
Justine Cassell: Disempowering Girls as Users of Technology: Girls’ use of technology threatens the established social order.  That’s the real reason behind the fear of girls using social networking sites.

November 28th, 2006
Ellen Seiter: Why Santa Brings Playstation, instead of a PC: There is a gaping home technology divide in this country.  And Santa knows that one Christmas present can’t fix it, no matter how generous.
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November 28th, 2006
This week’s theme: innovative uses and unexpected outcomes: Once upon a time not so long ago, one of the largest, most active groups of innovators in technological communications weren’t scientists or corporations but everyday citizens and amateur system operators.