Digital Media & Learning
Recent Grants
Digital Media & Learning 
Education in Chicago
National Policy
Number of Grants:
65
Academic Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Lab (Madison, Wisconsin)
$362,000 to consider the potential of learning environments involving mobile media. (2008)
Academic Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Lab (Madison, United States)
$1,800,000 in support of the development and testing of a comprehensive media literacy curriculum, research on the new curricula, the development of new approaches to assessment, and a national communications strategy to ensure widespread distribution of the product. (2006)
Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona)
$590,000 to work on the development of a new physical platform for learning that may replace the classroom. (2008)
Arizona State University College of Education (Tempe, Arizona)
$500,000 in support of the design and development of Our Courts, an innovative learning environment to teach social studies, civic engagement and 21st century skills. (2008)
Blueprint Research & Design (San Francisco, California)
$550,000 in support of building the field of digital media and learning (over two years). (2008)
Blueprint Research and Design (San Francisco, California)
$450,000 in support of developing four reports and case studies for public use that will help build the emerging field of digital media and learning. (2006)
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (Stanford, California)
$200,000 to conduct and evaluate a series of meetings to build the field of digital media and learning. (2008)
Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
$500,000 to design and build the physical and virtual site for a pilot digital media youth program in the Chicago Public Library that will serve to launch a Chicago learning network. (2009)
Chicago Public Library Foundation (Chicago, Illinois)
$495,000 to plan and implement a pilot digital media youth program in the Chicago Public Library that will serve to launch a Chicago learning network. (2009)
Common Sense Media (San Francisco, California)
$500,000 to engage parents in public discussions of research findings on the impact of digital media on the learning and development of young people. (2008)
Common Sense Media (San Francisco, California)
$250,000 to develop a strategy for engaging parents in the public discussion around the impact of digital media on the learning and development of young people. (2007)
Consortium for School Networking (Washington, D.C.)
$450,000 to assess the current policies and practices of school leaders to effect or regulate the use of digital media in schools. (2008)
Digital Innovations Group (New York, New York)
$165,000 for support of the Prototyping Evaluation, Teaching and Learning Laboratory to advance the effective use of digital media by nonprofit organizations. (2007)
Digital Innovations Group (New York, New York)
$450,000 to support the developing and operating of an online knowledge network to help build the field of Digital Media and Learning (over three years). (2007)
Digital Innovations Group (New York, New York)
$250,000 in support of building the field of digital media and learning. (2006)
Field Museum (Chicago, Illinois)
$308,000 to use virtual worlds to build scientific literacy and knowledge of sustainable development. (2008)
George Lucas Educational Foundation (San Rafael, California)
$450,000 to research and produce a series of video stories to document the emerging field of digital media and learning. (2008)
Global Kids (New York, New York)
$360,000 support to explore the role of philanthropy in virtual worlds. (2009)
Global Kids (New York, New York)
$400,000 to explore the role of philanthropy in teen-oriented virtual worlds. (2007)
Global Kids (New York, New York)
$103,000 to build the field of digital media and learning by engaging an international youth community in online and multimedia activities that explores everyday use of digital media and advances media literacy skills. (2007)
Global Kids (New York, New York)
$900,000 in support of building the field of digital media and learning by engaging young people in online and multimedia activities that explore their everyday use of digital media (over three years). (2006)
Harvard University, Graduate School of Education (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$900,000 in support of a study of the effect of digital media on young people's ethical development and the creation of curricula for parents and teachers (over three years). (2006)
Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, Illinois)
$400,000 to develop a prototype of an Electronic Learning Record to track young people's learning experiences across informal environments (over two years). (2007)
Illinois Institute of Technology, Institute of Design (Chicago, Illinois)
$430,000 to design and build installations in public libraries that support young people's learning through digital media (over two years). (2007)
Illinois Institute of Technology, Institute of Design (Chicago, Illinois)
$250,000 in support of designs for public libraries and schools of the future. (2006)
Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana)
$1,839,000 to analyze and support efforts to expand the immersive learning environment Quest Atlantis (over three years). (2007)
Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana)
$500,000 in support of an online immersive environment for young people to improve their media literacy skills and capacities (over two years). (2006)
Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana)
$240,000 in support of new approaches to research in digital media and learning through the design, development, and operation of a controlled study within a synthetic world. (2006)
Indiana University, Center on Congress (Bloomington, Indiana)
$300,000 in support of the Virtual Congress project (over two years). (2007)
Institute of Play (New York, New York)
$500,000 to complete the design and development of Gamestar Mechanic. (2008)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Comparative Media Studies (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$150,000 to develop and examine the value of professional development activities for learning environments that address media literacy. (2008)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Comparative Media Studies (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$1,800,000 in support of the development and testing of a comprehensive media literacy curriculum and a national communications strategy to ensure widespread distribution (over three years). (2006)
Mills College (Oakland, California)
$600,000 to fund the first phase of a research network on youth, new media, and public participation. (2009)
Mills College (Oakland, California)
$450,000 in support of a longitudinal quantitative study of the effect of digital media on young people's current and future civic commitments and engagements (over three years). (2006)
Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (Monterey, California)
$380,000 to support the publication of new volumes in the "MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning" and to introduce a new monographic series (over three years). (2008)
Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (Monterey, California)
$2,140,000 to build the field of Digital Media and Learning through a new journal, conferences, and convenings (over five years). (2007)
Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (Monterey, California)
$200,000 in support of the MacArthur Series on Digital Media and Learning and a new journal for the field. (2007)
National Writing Project (Berkeley, California)
$300,000 to build the field of digital media and learning through engagement with teachers. (2008)
New School University Parsons the New School for Design (New York, New York)
$250,000 for support of the Prototyping Evaluation, Teaching and Learning Laboratory to advance the effective use of digital media by nonprofit organizations. (2007)
New Visions for Public Schools (New York, New York)
$1,100,000 in support of developing the Gaming School, a 6-to-12th grade public school in New York City (over two years). (2007)
Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois)
$300,000 to conduct an analysis of the feasibility of creating a longitudinal quantitative survey of young people's participation with digital media. (2007)
Northwestern University School of Communication (Evanston, Illinois)
$140,000 in support of network analysis to map the field of digital media and learning (over sixteen months). (2007)
Northwestern University, Department of Communication Studies (Evanston, Illinois)
$309,000 in support of a quantitative study of how young people use the Internet to search, sort, and use information, and the implementation and assessment of an intervention targeting improved Internet use, participation, and skills (over two years). (2006)
Pew Research Center (Washington, D.C.)
$315,000 in support of a national survey of adolescent game use and civic participation. (2007)
Princeton University Center for Research on Child Wellbeing (Princeton, New Jersey)
$195,000 to publish a volume of the "Future of Children" journal. (2008)
Princeton University, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing (Princeton, New Jersey)
$117,675 for the publication of a volume of the Future of Children journal, on media technology in the lives of children and youth. (2007)
Stanford University, School of Education (Stanford, California)
$750,000 in support of the longitudinal documentation and evaluation of the University of Chicago's Afterschool Digital Media Program (over three years). (2006)
TakingItGlobal (Toronto, Canada)
$87,000 to build the field of digital media and learning by engaging an international youth community in online and multimedia activities that explores everyday use of digital media and advances media literacy skills. (2007)
Tides Center (San Francisco, California)
$416,000 in support of enhanced communications to help build the field of digital media and learning. (2008)
University of California, Irvine (Irvine, California)
$220,000 to extend the Humanities Research Institute's work to operate, publicize, and support the winners of the 2007 Digital Media and Learning Competition. (2008)
University of California, Irvine (Irvine, California)
$750,000 to plan for a new research and innovation hub to build and sustain the emerging field of digital media and learning. (2008)
University of California, Irvine (Irvine, California)
$5,632,000 to operate, publicize, and support the winners of a competition to build the field of Digital Media and Learning (over four years). (2008)
University of California, Irvine (Irvine, California)
$2,350,000 to operate, publicize, and support the winners of an open-call competition at HASTAC to build the field of Digital Media and Learning (over 18 months). (2007)
University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Communication (Santa Barbara, California)
$260,000 to conduct a survey of digital information credibility assessment among children and young people. (2007)
University of Chicago, Center for Urban School Improvement (Chicago, Illinois)
$1,600,000 in support and expansion of afterschool digital media programs (over three years). (2006)
University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California)
$250,000 to explore philanthropy in virtual worlds. (2008)
University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California)
$400,000 in support of further development and adaptation for use in secondary education settings of Sophie, a multi-media authoring tool. (2007)
University of Southern California Center on Public Diplomacy (Los Angeles, California)
$250,000 in support of the fifth annual State of Play Conference fostering international discussion of the role of philanthropy in virtual worlds. (2007)
University of Southern California, Center on Public Diplomacy (Los Angeles, California)
$550,000 in support of a set of activities to explore the potential role of philanthropy in virtual worlds. (2007)
University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts (Los Angeles, California)
$485,000 in support of activities in libraries and museums that support learning through digital media. (2008)
University of Washington (Seattle, Washington)
$100,000 to research how digital media use affects young people's civic engagement. (2008)
University of Washington (Seattle, Washington)
$250,000 to support research on the effect of digital media use on young people's civic engagement. (2007)
University of Wisconsin - Madison, School of Education (Madison, Wisconsin)
$1,200,000 in support of the design and development of innovative game modules, curriculum, and tools to support young people's media literacy (over three years). (2006)
Wolfsonian-Florida International University (Miami Beach, Florida)
$45,000 to support a convening at the 2009 WebWise conference to build the field of digital media and learning. (2008)
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (Princeton, New Jersey)
$260,000 to conduct and evaluate a series of meetings to build the field of digital media and learning. (2008)
Number of Grants:
7
Chicago Teachers Union Quest Center (Chicago, Illinois)
$35,000 in support of the National Board Certification Program. (2007)
Chicago Teachers Union Quest Center (Chicago, Illinois)
$700,000 in support of the Fresh Start Program and other core programs (over two years). (2007)
Chicago Teachers Union Quest Center (Chicago, Illinois)
$280,000 in support of the Fresh Start Program. (2006)
Children First Fund (Chicago, Illinois)
$250,000 in support of a comprehensive summer enrichment program for students in grades K to 12. (2006)
Community Renewal Society, Catalyst (Chicago, Illinois)
$400,000 in support of "Catalyst," a news service that analyzes and reports on school improvement efforts in Chicago (over four years). (2006)
University of Chicago Department of Sociology (Chicago, Illinois)
$300,000 in support of research investigating the pathways of student mobility, the effects of mobility on schools with highly-mobile students, and the consequences of mobility on peer social networks. (2006)
University of Chicago, Consortium on Chicago School Research (Chicago, Illinois)
$1,425,000 for core operating support (over three years). (2006)
Number of Grants:
1
Center on Education Policy (Washington, D.C.)
$750,000 in support of general operations (over three years). (2006)
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