Conference

Doug Belshaw Profile Picture
By Doug Belshaw 02/01/2012 - 4:25pm Comments
Last year I attended, on average, a conference or similar event every other week. As part of my role as Researcher/Analyst at JISC infoNet it’s an important part of what I do: finding out what’s going on in the UK education sector and...
Conferences as Catalysts for Educational Innovation and Change Blog Image
Doug Belshaw Profile Picture
By Doug Belshaw 02/01/2012 - 4:25pm Comments
Last year I attended, on average, a conference or similar event every other week. As part of my role as Researcher/Analyst at JISC infoNet it’s an important part of what I do: finding out what’s going on in the UK education sector and...
Conferences as Catalysts for Educational Innovation and Change Blog Image
Howard Rheingold  Profile Picture
By Howard Rheingold 09/20/2011 - 10:25am Comments
Antero Garcia, who teaches English at a high school in South Central Los Angeles, is a PhD candidate, focusing on critical literacies and civic identity through the use of mobile media and game play. He utilizes his classroom as a center of...
The Classroom as Hub of Technology-enabled Social Change Blog Image
Henry Jenkins Profile Picture
By Henry Jenkins 12/17/2009 - 8:50am Comments
Earlier this year, we issued a call for proposals for panels and presentations for the first Digital Media and Learning Conference, an annual event supported by the MacArthur Foundation and organized by the Digital Media and Learning Hub at...
Announcing International Digital Media and Learning Conference 2010 Blog Image
Jeff Brazil Profile Picture
By Jeff Brazil 02/23/2010 - 4:35pm Comments
More than 400 researchers, scholars, educators, practitioners, and youth experts from the emerging digital media and learning field have just returned from our first Digital Media and Learning Conference. We’re still trying to wrap our arms...
Remix: Digital Media and Learning Conference 2010  Blog Image
Jeff Brazil Profile Picture
By Jeff Brazil 02/25/2010 - 3:48pm Comments
In the wake of the Digital Media and Learning Conference, we’re seeing many great conversations taking place and intriguing questions being asked. Here’s a second wave of tweets harvested from the conference tweetstream. As before, these are...
Dispatches: Digital Media & Learning Conference 2010 Blog Image
Jeff Brazil Profile Picture
By Jeff Brazil 03/11/2010 - 4:15pm Comments
Hidden in the tweetstream from the Digital Media and Learning Conference 2010 are hundreds of provocative insights, comments, and observations, and we couldn't help but mine the archive for another round. The full stream can be found here: #...
Spin: Voices from the Digital Media & Learning Conference 2010 Blog Image
Howard Rheingold  Profile Picture
By Howard Rheingold 09/08/2011 - 12:20pm Comments
The 2012 Digital Media and Learning Conference, it's being announced today, will explore the richer, deeper learning enabled by the emergence of Web-enabled, mobile-based platforms that promote new models of peer-to-peer learning, anywhere/...
Digital Media & Learning Conference 2012
Howard Rheingold  Profile Picture
By Howard Rheingold 09/13/2011 - 7:50am Comments
Mitch Resnick is on the conference committee for the 2012 Digital Media and Learning Conference, "Beyond Educational Technology: Learning Innovations in a Connected World." As Professor of Learning Research at the MIT Media Lab, he develops new...
Mitch Resnick: Making, Tinkering, and Remixing i
Howard Rheingold  Profile Picture
By Howard Rheingold 09/20/2011 - 10:25am Comments
Antero Garcia, who teaches English at a high school in South Central Los Angeles, is a PhD candidate, focusing on critical literacies and civic identity through the use of mobile media and game play. He utilizes his classroom as a center of...
The Classroom as Hub of Technology-enabled Social Change Blog Image
Howard Rheingold  Profile Picture
By Howard Rheingold 09/29/2011 - 12:50pm Comments
Tracy Fullerton is an experimental game designer and associate professor in the Interactive Media Division of the USC School of Cinematic Arts where she directs the Game Innovation Lab. Her design research center has produced several...
Re-imagining Media for Learning Blog Image
Antero Garcia Profile Picture
By Antero Garcia 10/03/2011 - 11:40am Comments
I'm usually pretty optimistic about the possibilities available to innovative teachers and students. Lately, however, I've been worried about the wholesale apathy and universal shoulder-shrug that's been the response to "What do we do about...
Learning to Cheat as a Digital Literacy
Howard Rheingold  Profile Picture
By Howard Rheingold 10/06/2011 - 1:40pm Comments
Mark Surman is in the business of connecting things: people, ideas, everything. A community technology activist for almost 20 years, Mark is currently the executive director of the Mozilla Foundation, with a focus on inventing new ways to...
Democratizing Learning Innovation Blog Image
Doug Belshaw Profile Picture
By Doug Belshaw 02/01/2012 - 4:25pm Comments
Last year I attended, on average, a conference or similar event every other week. As part of my role as Researcher/Analyst at JISC infoNet it’s an important part of what I do: finding out what’s going on in the UK education sector and...
Conferences as Catalysts for Educational Innovation and Change Blog Image
Antero Garcia Profile Picture
By Antero Garcia 10/03/2011 - 11:40am Comments
I'm usually pretty optimistic about the possibilities available to innovative teachers and students. Lately, however, I've been worried about the wholesale apathy and universal shoulder-shrug that's been the response to "What do we do about...
Learning to Cheat as a Digital Literacy
Henry Jenkins Profile Picture
By Henry Jenkins 12/17/2009 - 8:50am Comments
Earlier this year, we issued a call for proposals for panels and presentations for the first Digital Media and Learning Conference, an annual event supported by the MacArthur Foundation and organized by the Digital Media and Learning Hub at...
Announcing International Digital Media and Learning Conference 2010 Blog Image
Jeff Brazil Profile Picture
By Jeff Brazil 02/23/2010 - 4:35pm Comments
More than 400 researchers, scholars, educators, practitioners, and youth experts from the emerging digital media and learning field have just returned from our first Digital Media and Learning Conference. We’re still trying to wrap our arms...
Remix: Digital Media and Learning Conference 2010  Blog Image
Jeff Brazil Profile Picture
By Jeff Brazil 02/25/2010 - 3:48pm Comments
In the wake of the Digital Media and Learning Conference, we’re seeing many great conversations taking place and intriguing questions being asked. Here’s a second wave of tweets harvested from the conference tweetstream. As before, these are...
Dispatches: Digital Media & Learning Conference 2010 Blog Image
Jeff Brazil Profile Picture
By Jeff Brazil 03/11/2010 - 4:15pm Comments
Hidden in the tweetstream from the Digital Media and Learning Conference 2010 are hundreds of provocative insights, comments, and observations, and we couldn't help but mine the archive for another round. The full stream can be found here: #...
Spin: Voices from the Digital Media & Learning Conference 2010 Blog Image
Howard Rheingold  Profile Picture
By Howard Rheingold 09/20/2011 - 10:25am Comments
Antero Garcia, who teaches English at a high school in South Central Los Angeles, is a PhD candidate, focusing on critical literacies and civic identity through the use of mobile media and game play. He utilizes his classroom as a center of...
The Classroom as Hub of Technology-enabled Social Change Blog Image