Digital Media, Learning & Education

Recent Grants

Education in Chicago

Number of Grants: 11

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)

Chicago Teachers Union Quest Center (Chicago, Illinois)
$250,000 in support of Partnership Schools. (2005)

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, Center for Urban School Improvement (Chicago, Illinois)
$250,000 to support a pilot afterschool media literacy program. (2005)

University of Chicago, Center for Urban School Improvement (Chicago, Illinois)
$202,000 in support of professional development and principal leadership training in nine existing schools within New Communities Program neighborhoods (over two years). (2005)

University of Chicago, Consortium on Chicago School Research (Chicago, Illinois)
$1,425,000 for core operating support (over three years). (2006)

University of Chicago, Consortium on Chicago School Research (Chicago, Illinois)
$400,000 in support of studies on the effects of student mobility on academic performance (over two years). (2005)

Digital Media, Learning and Education

Number of Grants: 62

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 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 & Design (San Francisco, California)
$80,000 in support of field building, strategic planning, and analysis of trends in innovation, the development of expertise, and in distribution in digital media and learning (over six months). (2005)

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)

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)

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)
$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)

Global Kids (New York, New York)
$170,000 in support of building the field of digital media and learning by engaging young people in online discussions and written essays about their use of digital media. (2005)

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)
$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)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Comparative Media Studies (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$500,000 to develop a conceptual framework, website, and approach with models for achieving a new kind of digital media literacy among young people. (2005)

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)

Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (Monterey, California)
$575,000 to build the field of digital media and learning through papers, on-line discussions, and edited volumes on a variety of topics (over eighteen months). (2005)

New Media Consortium (Austin, Texas)
$575,000 to build the field of digital media and learning through papers, on-line discussions, and edited volumes on a variety of topics (over eighteen months). (2005)

New Media Consortium (Austin, Texas)
$17,500 to complete a literature review, monograph, and communications activities exploring visual and digital literacy in higher education. (2005)

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)
$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)

University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, California)
$145,420 in support of planning for a multi-site ethnographic study of how and to what effect young people use digital media (over three months). (2005)

University of California, Berkeley, School of Information Management and Systems (Berkeley, California)
$1,954,000 in support of a multi-site ethnographic study of how young people use digital media, and to what effect (over three years). (2005)

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)
$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)
$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, Annenberg Center for Communication (Los Angeles, California)
$1,346,000 in support of a multi-site ethnographic study of how young people use digital media, and to what effect (over three years). (2005)

University of Southern California, Annenberg Center for Communication (Los Angeles, California)
$80,580 in support of planning for a multi-site ethnographic study of how and to what effect young people use digital media (over three months). (2005)

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)
$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)

National Policy

Number of Grants: 2

Aspen Institute, International and Policy Programs (Washington, D.C.)
$250,000 in support of a National Commission on the No Child Left Behind Act. (2005)

Center on Education Policy (Washington, D.C.)
$750,000 in support of general operations (over three years). (2006)