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This year I am going to share my m-learning travelling fun with you and hopefully meet some very cool people along the way!

Wednesday 12 May 2010

Global Digital Media & Learning competition

Now in it’s 3rd year, the conference was opened by Cathy Davidson & David Theo Goldberg, Co founders of HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory).

The competition is funded by a MacArthur grant to the University of California, Irvine & Duke University and is administered by HASTAC. The comp is part of MacArthur’s digital media and learning initiative designed to help show how digital technologies are changing the way young people learn, play, socialise – very neat!

This yr it was launched in collaboration with Presidents Obama’s Educate to Innovate initiative, ‘challenging designers, inventors, entrepreneurs and researchers to create digital environments that promote building & tinkering in new innovative ways’.

10 winners of the Macarthur Digital Media and Learning Competition were announced today. The winners will share $1.7 million in funding to use games, mobile phone apps, virtual worlds & social networks to create learning labs of the 21st century. Find out about the winning projects

The day lasted from 9am – 6pm, long day but was a chance to meet, hear & look at some amazing projects & people, that have been part of the Global competition.

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