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The MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning will explore the intersection of digital media and learning from the perspectives of experts, visionaries, and thought leaders chosen from across the globe. The working hypothesis of the effort is that digital media have advanced significantly in recent years, enabling new forms of knowledge production, social networking, communication, and play. Through the use of such media, young people are engaged in an unprecedented exploration of language, games, social interaction, and self-directed education that can be used to support learning.

The overall aim of the series is to explore the consequences of this exposure to and use of digital media for their sense of self, how they express their independence and creativity, and their ability to learn, exercise judgment, and think systematically.

For the closing of the NMC's Impact of Digital Media Symposium held entirely in Second Life, Howard Rheingold deliverred a keynote on The Pedagogy of Civic Participation.

This Symposium, as part of NMC's participation in the MacArhur Foundation Series on Digital Learning, included 12 days of presentations, art, music, discussion, and interaction held entirely in the NMC Campus in Second Life-- see the dgitial archives of the events.