April 10th, 2008
Elizabeth Bagley: Consequential Digital Identities: How can digital media help provide pro-social roles for young people?  A researcher at the University of Wisconsin reflects on the recent AERA conference and explores how digital media is giving youth the chance to…

April 10th, 2008
Aran Nulty: New Media Technologies and Student Learning: New media technologies need to be a central part of how all students learn. Aran Nulty from the epistemic games research team at the University of Wisconsin shares her observations from two panels she attended…

April 9th, 2008
David Hatfield: Games, Diversity, and Democracy: Can games play a role in preparing young people to participate in our democracy? A researcher from the University of Wisconsin continues our series of reflections from the AERA conference held in New York last…
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April 8th, 2008
David Williamson Shaffer: Celebrating Seymour: Seymour Papert was honored in a special session at the American Education Research Association, and his work provides a powerful example for the digital future--and the Macarthur Digital Media and Learning initiative.

April 8th, 2008
Reflections on AERA:  Observations on learning, games, democracy, identity and education: Continuing our observations from the recent AERA conference, over the next week Spotlight will feature a series of posts from members of the Epistemic Games Group at the University of Wisconsin…
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April 3rd, 2008
Connected Reflections: Learning, Meaning, and Civic Engagement in the Digital Age: Four provocative ideas from a recent AERA panel are highlighted by MacArthur Program Officer Benjamin Stokes, who connects each idea to the profile of a leading thinker on this website.

April 1st, 2008
[Reblogged] John Palfrey: Digital Youth, Innovation, and the Unexpected: John Palfrey continues his discussion of the MacArthur Series on Digital Media and Learning. We reblog his latest post reacting to the volume on Digital Youth, Innovation,…

March 27th, 2008
[Reblogged] danah boyd: how youth find privacy in interstitial space: We reblog danah boyd’s recent piece about the race going on between parental surveillance vs. technology to assert privacy. boyd reminds us that youth have been trying to find ways to communicate outside the watchful…

March 25th, 2008
[Reblogged] Howard Gardner: The End of Literacy? Don’t Stop Reading.: Howard Gardner asks “What will happen to reading and writing in our time?” We reblog his piece from the Washington Post last month that examines the future of literacy. Howard Gardner is…

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 4th, 2008
Mimi Ito: 24/7: A DIY Video Summit: Mimi Ito previews the DIY Video Summit, convening Feb 8-10th at USC.
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January 27th, 2008
Douglas Thomas: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. For Avatars?: The Director of USC’s Institute for Network Culture previews Monday’s discussion in Second Life by asking what it means to consider human and civil rights in virtual worlds.