HASTAC Digital Media & Learning Competition Winners Announced
Winners were just announced in HASTAC's Digital Media & Learning Competition. Global Kids received one of the first grants offered in 2008, to support RezEd.org.
The 2009 Award Recipients were drawn from two categories: Innovation in Participatory Learning ($30,000 to $250,000) and Young Innovators ($5,000 to $30,000). Innovation awards support projects that demonstrate new modes of participatory learning, in which people take part in virtual communities, share ideas, comment on each other's projects, and advance goals together. Young Innovator awards - designed to encourage young people aged 18-25 to think boldly about "what comes next" in participatory learning and to contribute to making it happen - will aid recipients in bringing their most visionary ideas from the "garage" stage to implementation.
More information at:
http://digitallearning.macfound.org/site/c.enJLKQNlFiG/b.5106073/k.A5AF/Award_Recipients.htm
We are especially excited to see one of the grants going to Alan Gershenfeld of E-Line Ventures, one of the members of Global Kids new Advisory on Digital Media. More info on his very cool project here.
