Funding opp: 2010 HASTAC/MacArthur Digital Media and Learning Competition
HASTAC
2010 HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning
Competition is drawing close (January 15th). This year's Competition
has both a game specific category (Game Changers) as well as a 21st
Century Learning Lab Designer category that also seeks serious games
and virtual world
applications. I have posted the call below and I hope you will
consider applying if you have an appropriate project or forwarding
along the call to your contacts, posting to blogs, etc.
PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY
2010 HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning
Competition
We are pleased to announce that all information regarding the 2010
international HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning
Competition—including detailed category explanations and guidelines,
critical deadlines, application materials, etc.—is now available at
www.dmlcompetition.net.
The theme of this year's Competition is Reimagining Learning and there
are two types of awards: 21st Century Learning Lab Designers and Game
Changers.
Aligned with National Lab Day as part of the White House's Educate to
Innovate Initiative, the 21st Century Learning Lab Designer awards
will range from $30,000-$200,000. Awards will be made for learning
environments and digital media-based experiences that allow young
people to grapple with social challenges through activities based on
the social nature, contexts, and ideas of science, technology,
engineering and math. Digital media of any type (social networks,
games, virtual worlds, mobile devices or others) may be used.
The Game Changers category—undertaken in cooperation with Sony
Computer Entertainment of America (SCEA) and Electronic Arts (EA),
Entertainment Software Assocation, and the Information Technology
Industry Council—will award amounts ranging from $5,000-$50,000 for
creative levels designed with either LittleBigPlanet™ or Spore™
Galactic Adventures that offer young people engaging game play
experiences and that incorporate and leverage principles of science,
technology, engineering and math for learning.
Each category will include several Best in Class awards selected by
expert judges, as well as a People’s Choice Award selected by the
general public. The online application system will open on January 15
and will include three rounds of submissions, with public comment at
each stage.
Please see www.dmlcompetition.net for all details.