GridToday has a story about a new competition from the MacArthur Foundation that will award $2 million in funding to emerging leaders, communicators, and innovators shaping the field of digital media and learning.
Awards will be given in two categories:
Innovation Awards will support learning pioneers, entrepreneurs, and builders of new digital learning environments for formal and informal learning. These innovations might range from a teacher add-on for MySpace that allows for safe assigning of a class group to a discussion, to a platform co-developed by teachers and students to facilitate digital literacy and peer-mentoring between college students and high-school drop-outs earning their GED degrees, to a digital learning festival for the leaders of a worldwide youth environmental campaign.
Knowledge Networking Awards will support communicators in connecting, mobilizing, circulating or translating new ideas around digital media and learning. For example, a team of teacher bloggers who already reach hundreds of thousands of readers may now seek to provide multimedia coverage and translation of MIT professor Henry Jenkins’ recent white paper on media literacy.
We hope your readers will be interested in the new competition!
DIGITAL MEDIA AND LEARNING COMPETITION 2008
Focus: Participatory Learning
Application Deadline: October 15, 2008
Full information at: http://www.dmlcompetition.net
Application Deadline: October 15, 2008
The second HASTAC/MacArthur Digital Media and Learning Competition is now open! The focus is participatory learning.
Awards will be made in two categories:
Innovation in Participatory Learning Awards support large-scale digital learning projects
$30,000-$250,000
Young Innovator Awards are targeted at 18-25 year olds
$5,000-$30,000
Full information at: http://www.dmlcompetition.net