Digital Media & Learning

MacArthur's grantmaking aims to determine how digital media are changing the way young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life. Answers are critical to education and other social institutions that must meet the needs of this and future generations. Read our strategy

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Digital Media & Learning Conference 2013

More information on the event is available on the DMLcentral website. Read More
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A Conversation with Cynthia Germanotta, President, Born This Way Foundation

You are invited to A Conversation with Cynthia Germanotta, President, Born This Way Foundation. Read More

.@MITpress report on #learning at not-school http://t.co/0bkPustS #digitalmedia #education

RT We're building #SimCityEDU w/ our partners @EA. Learn more: http://t.co/oWvZiBTg

.@US_IMLS’s #learninglab at @UofAlabama and @AMNH to bring #digitalmedia education & #mentors to students in #Alabama http://t.co/NFIjApQy

.@HuffPostEdu: Mimi Ito on a new framework for learning that is social, interest-driven http://t.co/l0zg5sr8 #connectedlearning @mizuko

"Connected Learning: An Agenda for Social Change"

From The Huffington Post
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Interdisciplinary Researchers Propose New Framework for Learning

Inequities in skills attainment, achievement gaps among ethnicities, and a disconnect between classroom learning and the everyday lives and interests of young people are troubling trends that signify the need for a new framework of learning. Read More

MT @comp_inst: The Urban Center for Computation and Data (@UrbanCCD) receives $500,000 from MacArthur (@macfound): http://t.co/yREM2lvo

RT Born This Way Foundation Interview http://t.co/TVvf9Cy8 @ladygaga @BTWFoundation @macfound @CalEndow @berkmancenter http://t.co/IWinWwAK

Representative Grants

DePaul University

Chicago, Illinois
2010

$1,800,000 To implement a Chicago Learning Network of schools, libraries, museums, after-school programs, online communities, and the home (over three years).

  • Reports on Digital Media & Learning

    Published by the MIT Press, these reports present findings from research on how young people learn, play, socialize and participate in civic life.

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Staff

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Julia M. Stasch

Vice President, U.S. Programs
Portrait of Constance M. Yowell

Constance M. Yowell

Director of Education
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An-Me Chung

Associate Director, Education
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Jennifer Humke

Program Officer
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Karen S. Hott

Senior Executive Secretary
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Julie W. Squire

Program Administrator