PAST EVENTS
Totally Wired: How Technology is Changing Kids and Learning
Wednusday, December 12, 2007
Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
MacArthur Foundation in association with The MIT Press and The Monterey Institute for Technology and Education presented a public forum on how digital media is changing how young people learn and play, featuring Henry Jenkins, Professor, MIT, and author of Convergence Culture, Katie Salen, Professor, Parsons the New School for Design, and game designer and Howard Gardner, Professor, Harvard University, and author of Five Minds for the Future.
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THE WONDERS AND WORRIES OF KIDS BEING IN VIRTUAL WORLDS
What are kids learning in Virtual Worlds?
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Davidson Conference Center, University of Southern California
A MacArthur Foundation/Common Sense Media Forum Presentation In Association With Center on Public Diplomacy, USC
The featured panelists had a discussion on the aspects of kids having the exposure of Virtual Worlds and included following points:
What do Club Penguin, Whyville, The Sims, Second Life Like Virtual Worlds mean for kids?
What are kids really doing in virtual worlds?
How are they learning?
What does this mean for parents and educators?
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MAKING THE GLOBAL LOCAL: VIRTUAL WORLDS, MIGRATION AND LINGUISTIC DIASPORA
USC Center on Public Diplomacy Panel Supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Participates in Interdependence Day, Mexico City.
A panel was brought in to explore how the interdependence of our world is highlighted ever more dramatically by the role the virtual worlds are providing for social good – especially opportunities to explore new forms democracy, public diplomacy, migration and intercultural dialouge.
Watch a special video message from Gilberto Gil
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VIRTUAL WORLD EVENT ON PHILANTHROPY WITH THE MACARTHUR FOUNDATION
On June 22, MacArthur Foundation President Jonathan Fanton and Linden Lab CEO Philip Rosedale (a.k.a. Philip Linden) had a remarkable conversation about how virtual worlds could revolutionize philanthropy. 232 avatars congregated in an auditorium designed specifically for the 
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