"Kids' Informal Learning with Digital Media: An Ethnographic Investigation of Innovative Knowledge Cultures" is a three-year collaborative project funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Carried out by researchers at the University of Southern California and University of California, Berkeley, the digital youth project explores how kids use digital media in their everyday live
New MacArthur report on teens and new media. There's a two page
summary of the findings of the three year research project into kids'
informal learning with digital media, a white paper, and the complete
text of the forthcoming book, Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking
Out: Living and Learning with New Media.
We're so proud of Cambridge and all it has contributed to science and
technology that we're throwing a Festival to celebrate. Join us for
Science in the City – the first annual Cambridge Science Festival
presented by the MIT Museum.
I am posting this because it is both horrific & potentially brilliant. University of North Carolina at Greensboro is providing a flashy, online gaming course as a medium to learn economics. I am all for learning using video games but the commercial for the course (dancing alien) is well...check it out.
Here's a good website to tie art and history together. Indianapolis Museum of Art created the website complete with chants and songs of various African tribes. A bit Dorling Kindersley in design, it nevertheless delivers content very accessible to younger students, I think.
Okay, so I love Science Museum of Minnesota...but hey, there's not too many large museums headed by a Cherokee director who is also a scientist and basketweaver. Science Buzz is an experimental project using tagging & blogging to get the public to think deeper into current events about science.
Get a sense of plantation life and Thomas Jefferson's family at Monticello Explorer. Although the website provides one particular view of history, this website deserves a visit - a beautiful journey into aesthetics and geography. Includes podcasts.
Want to get kids to really "see" history? The Los Angeles Conservancy launched a website dedicated to the history, architecture, and communities - helping the public see the city as a living museum. Accompanying kid and educator guide provides a multidisciplinary curriculum.
The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is experimenting with folksonomy. A new version will eventually roll out but consider the possibilities of using it with a class of students doing interdisciplinary learning in art, history, literature, etc!
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"Kids' Informal Learning with Digital Media: An Ethnographic Investigation of Innovative Knowledge Cultures" is a three-year collaborative project funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Carried out by researchers at the University of Southern California and University of California, Berkeley, the digital youth project explores how kids use digital media in their everyday live
New MacArthur report on teens and new media. There's a two page summary of the findings of the three year research project into kids' informal learning with digital media, a white paper, and the complete text of the forthcoming book, Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking Out: Living and Learning with New Media.
We're so proud of Cambridge and all it has contributed to science and technology that we're throwing a Festival to celebrate. Join us for Science in the City – the first annual Cambridge Science Festival presented by the MIT Museum.
I am posting this because it is both horrific & potentially brilliant. University of North Carolina at Greensboro is providing a flashy, online gaming course as a medium to learn economics. I am all for learning using video games but the commercial for the course (dancing alien) is well...check it out.
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