The MacArthur Foundation launched its five-year, $50 million digital media and learning initiative in 2006 to help determine how digital media are changing the way young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life. Answers are critical to developing educational and other social institutions that can meet the needs of this and future generations. The initiative is both marshaling what it is already known about the field and seeding innovation for continued growth. For more information, visit www.digitallearning.macfound.org. To engage in conversations
about these projects and the field of digital learning, visit the Spotlight blog at spotlight.macfound.org.

This report was mentioned by Roy Pea when he spoke at the BECTA Research network conference last month in Sheffield and strengthens the need for a serious discussion about the role of education in the digital information age and has particlular relevance for the BSF and PCP programmes.

The full report can be found here:

http://www.macfound.org/atf/cf/%7BB0386CE3-8B29-4162-8098-E466FB856794%7D/DML_ETHNOG_WHITEPAPER.PDF

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