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AMD’s game changer?

6/2/2008

This morning, semiconductor producer AMD announced “AMD Changing the Game,” an education initiative designed to empower youth to learn critical life skills through games with social content. The launch accompanies AMD’s sponsorship and participation at the fifth annual Games for Change festival held June 3 – 4 at Parsons The New School for Design in [...]


Two grant opportunities for innovators in education

9/11/2007

Two grant opportunities for innovators in education landed on my desk recently. The first is a little bit of old news: The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation recently announced a public competition that will award $2 million in funding to emerging leaders, communicators, and innovators shaping the field of digital media and learning. [...]


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Digital Media and Learning Competition winners

17 projects will receive up to $238,000 in funding as part of the first ever Digital Media and Learning Competition funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and administered by HASTAC (the Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory). While my proposal wasn’t among the less than 2% of submissions awarded funding, [...]


DML competition: Learning 2.0 is hot

The application deadline for the Digital Media and Learning Competition closed this week with an unprecedented response — over 1000 applications. From the Spotlight on DML: People think you are all a little nuts. Digital learning? What on earth can you be meaning? A lot of head-banging. Digital learning? You wade in together. Run a [...]


Futurelab “Vision”

A quick note: Futurelab has a free magazine, Vision, that you can subscribe to or view online. My summer/autumn copy just arrived, and it is quite good. The current issue focuses on the future of digital learning and their impacts on youth. Read the article…


The future of search?

The semantic web approaches! Powerlabs, which will launch in early September, utilizes Powerset, a large-scale search engine that breaks the confines of keyword search and takes advantage of the structure and nuances of natural language, according to the company. At the moment, they’re accepting sign-ups for pre-release experimentation.


Leapfrogging to an innovation-driven society

In an interview with Frank Moss, director of MIT’s Media Lab, BusinessWeek uncovers a vision for the future driven by disruptive change. This thinking is behind a new breed of entrepreneurs who, says Moss: Resist the current temptation to make incremental changes to attract funding. It might get you off the ground, but I don’t [...]


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