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)
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 (Tempe, Arizona)
$1,782,000 to develop approaches to educational assessment that acknowledge learning in a digital media context (over three years). (2007)
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)
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)
Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
$485,000 to develop a multimedia approach to sharing best practices in learning. (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)
$980,000 in support of building the field of digital media and learning through engagement with parents and teachers (over two years). (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)
$75,000 to convene scholars and practitioners to improve the models and tools for assessing how games may influence young people's participation in public life. (2009)
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)
$165,000 for support of the Prototyping Evaluation, Teaching and Learning Laboratory to advance the effective use of digital media by nonprofit organizations. (2007)
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)
$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)
$400,000 to explore the role of philanthropy in teen-oriented virtual worlds. (2007)
Harvard Law School Berkman Center for Internet and Society (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$450,000 to develop a youth media policy working group. (2009)
Harvard University Graduate School of Education (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$650,000 to study the effect of digital media on young people's ethical development and to develop curricula for parents and teachers (over two years). (2009)
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)
$100,000 to develop a plan for a learning network of schools, libraries, museums, after-school programs, online communities, and the home in Chicago. (2009)
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)
Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana)
$727,000 to develop a school-based curriculum based on Foundation-supported learning environments (over three years). (2009)
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, 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)
$1,000,000 to develop the Quest to Learn School public school in New York City (over two years). (2009)
Institute of Play (New York, New York)
$610,124 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)
Mills College (Oakland, California)
$600,000 to fund the first phase of a research network on youth, new media, and public participation. (2009)
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)
$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)
$2,140,000 to build the field of Digital Media and Learning through a new journal, conferences, and convenings (over five years). (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)
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)
Social Science Research Council (New York, New York)
$612,000 to develop a plan for a learning network of schools, libraries, museums, after-school programs, online communities, and the home in New York City. (2008)
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)
$275,000 in support of National Lab Day and an online exchange system to ensure national collaborations and participation. (2009)
Tides Center (San Francisco, California)
$416,000 in support of enhanced communications to help build the field of digital media and learning. (2008)
United Negro College Fund (Fairfax, Virginia)
$100,000 to engage students and faculty in historically black colleges and universities in the public dialogue concerning digital media and learning (over 18 months). (2009)
University of California, Irvine (Irvine, California)
$2,970,000 to establish a Research Hub for the field of digital media and learning (over two years). (2009)
University of California, Irvine (Irvine, California)
$650,000 to plan a new research network investigating how young people's development, learning, and achievement are changing as a result of digital media. (2009)
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 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)
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:
5
Chicago Teachers Union Quest Center (Chicago, Illinois)
$600,000 in support of the Fresh Start Program and other core programs (over three years). (2009)
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)
University of Chicago Center for Urban School Improvement (Chicago, Illinois)
$1,000,000 to expand after-school digital media programs (over two years). (2008)
University of Chicago Center for Urban School Improvement (Chicago, Illinois)
$1,950,000 to support the Urban School Improvement Network and the digital media-informed curriculum at the Carter G. Woodson School (over three years). (2008)
Number of Grants:
0
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