About Digital Youth
"Kids' Informal Learning with Digital Media: An Ethnographic Investigation of Innovative Knowledge Cultures" is a three-year collaborative project funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Carried out by researchers at the University of Southern California and University of California, Berkeley, the digital youth project explores how kids use digital media in their everyday lives. Read more
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Michael Carter
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- Bio
For over three decades Michael has been engaged in technology and learning research and development. He shaped the curriculum that Oxford, Stanford and Yale delivered to their alumni online and created programs for executives with faculty from leading business at Pensare. At Apple he oversaw educational and new media research and funded laboratories world-wide. His academic career includes professing European history at Dartmouth and directing academic computing at Stanford. At Digital Pictures he created "What's My Story?" to help children learn to speak for themselves and at Zookazoo.com designs and produces games for kids to play and learn about endangered species and conservation. At the Monterey Institute for Technology and Learning he helped publish the six volume series "The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning" with the MITPress and with them is launching the "International Journal of Learning and Media," a peer reviewed scholarly online journal and community.
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- www.montereyinstitute.org
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