Where are They Now?

Global Kids (2008 DML Comp Winner) Announces New Badging System to Certify Informal and Interest-Driven Learning

slgrant — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:39:55 +0000

Through a generous grant from the MacArthur Foundation, Global Kids, Inc. is excited to announce that it is developing a new badging system for New York City and Chicago members of The Hive Learning Networks.

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SCRATCH@MIT

slgrant — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:30:04 +0000

SCRATCH@MIT CONFERENCE

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Aeon Quest is published!

Scott Comstock — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:41:36 +0000

Alright, I FINALLY finished Aeon Quest.

Digital Media & Learning Competition 4

Reflections on Digital Literacy from Youth Radio's Mobile Action Lab

Lissa Soep — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:15:44 +0000

As Youth Radio's Mobile Action Lab gears up for more youth-made app launches in 2012, we're marking the new year with some reflections on what we're learning about digital media literacies from our own design and development efforts. Some thoughts:

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Where Are They Now? Updates from Digital Media and Learning Competition Winners

slgrant — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:53:06 +0000

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The Shift from Audience to User in Youth-Made Media

Lissa Soep — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:39:17 +0000

As we mark the one-year anniversary of the launch of Youth Radio’s Mobile Action Lab, I’m thinking about the video our team produced for our application to the DML competition. In it, we included a clip from Douglas Rushkoff at SXSW 2010.“If you are not a programmer,” Rushkoff argued at that time, “You are one of the programmed... If we don’t create a society that at least knows there’s a thing called programming, then you will end up being not the programmers but the users, or worse, the used.” (March 12, 2010).

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Tim Lenoir of Virtual Peace @ UNC's Institute for Arts & Humanities

slgrant — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 17:03:00 +0000

Tim Lenoir, a Duke University professor and 2008 HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition winner for Virtual Peace, will present his work during an event hosted by the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's Institute for Arts and Humanities on Tuesday, September 20th, from 4-5:30pm in Hyde Hall on the UNC campus.

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Launched: HyperCities Los Angeles Research Collection

Todd Presner — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:49:46 +0000

Exciting news for HyperCities, a HASTAC/Macarthur Foundation 2008 Digital Media & Learning Competition winner: With the generous support of the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, the HyperCities Los Angeles Research Collection has launched.

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Sasha Costanza-Chock Moves to MIT's Comparative Media Studies

slgrant — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:19:49 +0000

Good news for MIT's Comparative Media Studies program: Sasha Costanza-Chock has joined the faculty as Assistant Professor of Civic Media. Sasha was instrumental in VozMob's (Mobile Voices/ Voces Moviles) project leadership (2009 Digital Media & Learning Competition winner). Together with 12 other Voz Mob members, Sasha made important contributions to participatory research methods that reflect the same collaborative design process and principles used in developing VozMob.

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Greg Niemeyer's Social App Lab launches City Sandbox: Q&A Site for Civic Action

slgrant — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:22:56 +0000

After developing BlackCloud.org, a 2008 Digital Media & Learning Competition winner, Greg Niemeyer went on to co-found Social App Lab, a new initiative at UC Berkeley's Center for Informational Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS). New this summer from Social App Lab, a team of thinkers, doers, and makers launched CitySandbox, a Q&A site for civic action.

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