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Tom Heywood,
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Globaloria Students Celebrate Digital Learning Day 2012February 1, 2012
Two thousand youth in 60 schools and community centers across the nation opened up their classrooms on February 1st to demonstrate the power of digital teaching and learning the Globaloria Way on the first-ever national Digital Learning Day. World Wide Workshop is partnering with the Alliance for Excellent Education to celebrate innovative teaching practices that make learning more engaging for students. Read the full press release. This event was featured in:
Memo to Mayor Bloomberg: Let Them Make Games!January 13, 2012
In this Huffington Blog Post, Idit Harel Caperton offers an innovation solution to Mayor Bloomberg's call to ensure "all students should leave [school] prepared to succeed in the next phase of their lives": Let them make video games! It is a results-proven, research based strategy that is transforming teaching and learning with great success, and that NYC students need and deserve. Read the full story here. Where Will the Next Generation of Innovators Come From?December 16, 2011
"Where Will the Next Generation of Innovators Come From?" Dr. Idit Harel Caperton asks in her Huffington Blog Post today, reminding us that "it's time to think bigger faster, because innovation begins in the mind. And it is up to all of us and our schools and community centers to equip young minds, as early as possible and as often as conceivable, with the tools and capabilities that can potentially empower everyone to innovate." Read the full article here. Google to Support Community-Wide Civic Engagement Game Design Projects in San JoseDecember 14, 2011
Google to support the Globaloria social learning network in San Jose/Silicon Valley -- a new initiative that teaches youth game design and programming to cultivate a broad array of STEM knowledge and digital skills among youth, community-wide civic engagement and regional innovation, and also help ease Silicon Valley's talent crunch. Read the full press release. This press release was featured in: Interview: Globaloria Founder Dr. Idit Harel Caperton On Video Games As The New Language ArtsDecember 14, 2011
Journalist Paul Glader, from Wired Academic, an independent news source and thought center about digital learning and education innovation, interviewed Idit Harel Caperton from Berlin, where he is now stationed, about her vision for the World Wide Workshop and Globaloria as the drivers for teaching the new language arts. Read the full interview here. Knight Foundation Supports News Literacy Integration into West Virginia SchoolsDecember 9, 2011
What started as a pilot project to test teaching news literacy alongside civics through game making is getting ready to be scaled as an integrated curricular unit in middle and high schools across West Virginia with grant support from the John S and James L Knight Foundation. Read the full press release here. This event was featured in: DLD: Idit Harel Caperton - Our Most Important Commodity is EducationNovember 1, 2011
Read this article and watch this video posted on Digital Life Design (DLD) of Workshop Founder, Idit Harel Caperton, speaking about leveraging social media and technology for social good. Learning to Read/Write STEM through Videogame MakingOctober 15, 2011
On October 15, 2011, the Boston Book Festival hosted a panel called LEARNING LEARNING. This essay is Idit Harel Caperton’s text and slides for her short talk entitled, "Learning to Read/Write STEM through Videogame Making", presented at the panel. T.H.E Journal: Don’t Play It, Make It!July 25, 2011
“A new generation of gamers is not just picking up skills by playing video games--they're learning by designing and creating the games themselves.” Read this article from T.H.E Journal about the infusion of game-design in schools, featuring Globaloria as a successful model for empowering disadvantaged youth with 21st-century and STEM skills. San Jose Mercury News: Globaloria brings new way to learn to Silicon ValleyJuly 25, 2011
Read this article by Mike Cassidy about how Globaloria is not only getting kids interested in learning (imagine), but also forcing them to exercise the kinds of skills they'll need if they ever hope to get a decent job in the 21st century. This story was featured in: Videogames and Jazz: Globaloria at the National Jazz Museum of HarlemJuly 13, 2011
The National Jazz Museum in Harlem and the World Wide Workshop team up for new youth program that blends music and digital literacy. Celebrated musician Jonathan Batiste to lead a series of Globaloria-Jazz Workshops teaching NYC youth to create videogames about the history of jazz. Read more here. This story was featured in: Knight Foundation Partners with the World Wide Workshop in CaliforniaJuly 13, 2011
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has issued a new grant to the World Wide Workshop to bring the Globaloria learning network to San Jose and the Silicon Valley region to ensure that young residents are digitally literate and connected. Read more here. This event was featured in: Announcing the Winners of 2011 Globaloria Game Design CompetitionsJune 20, 2011
The World Wide Workshop Foundation congratulates the 78 finalists and 24 winners of three Globaloria game design competitions in 2011. Globaloria has been hosting the nation’s first and largest game-design competitions since 2009. Click here to read the press release. This event was featured in: Globaloria Students Demonstrate Tomorrow’s Skills to Today’s Education LeadersMay 31, 2011
A group of middle school and high school students and their teachers demonstrated the power of digital self-learning and tech-empowered teaching to help re-think and re-set educational priorities at the WV Department of Education at the State Capital today. Click here to read the press release. This event was featured in: SEED Magazine: Full Steam Ahead on CS-STEM LearningMay 24, 2011
Read this article by Dr. Idit Harel Caperton on how art, design and creative cognition can re-ignite STEM learning and innovation. This paper was also featured in DLD and was presented at the NCWIT 2011 Summit. Can Arts Education Be a Savior to the Economy?February 9, 2011
Read this special Column by Jim Denova, of the Benedum Foundation and Gregg Behr, of The Grable Foundation, advocating for Science, Technology, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) education, and holding up Globaloria as an exemplary model for the broader integration of arts across the educational spectrum. Click here to read more about the story. Frontier Supports Globaloria Education Network in West VirginiaMarch 25, 2011
Frontier Communications awards a new grant to the World Wide Workshop to expand the deployment of the Globaloria network throughout West Virginia. This grant helps connect schools in rural communities to broadband learning, and empower youth with the necessary digital literacies in civics, STEM, and 21st-century skills. Read the press release. Learn more about Globaloria broadband learning. This event was featured in: Globaloria 1st Annual Leadership Inspiration Award Winners AnnouncedMarch 24, 2011
The Entertainment Software Association Foundation and the World Wide Workshop Foundation are proud to announce the winners of the 1st Annual Globaloria Leadership Inspiration Awards. Click here to see the press release. First Annual Inspiration Awards AnnouncedFebruary 9, 2011
The World Wide Workshop Foundation and West Virginia Department of Education, sponsored by the ESA Foundation, announce the First Annual Inspiration Awards, a school leadership contest recognizing innovation among Globaloria principals and superintendents. Click here to read more about the award. Idit Caperton Receives 2010 Jessie McCanse Award for Individual Contribution to Media LiteracyFebruary 9, 2011
The National Telemedia Council is honoring World Wide Workshop Founder and President, Dr. Idit Caperton, for over 20 years of visionary research, entrepreneurship, and innovative new-media learning projects that have collectively reformed our thinking about education and education reform. Click here to read more about the award. Erik Huey of the ESA Foundation Remarks to the Third Annual Globaloria ColloquiumOctober 25, 2010
Erik Huey, Senior Vice President of Government Affairs at the Entertainment Software Association, gave an address to the assembled Third Annual Globaloria Colloquium on October 25th, 2010. You can read his speech here. World Wide Workshop Partners with the ESA Foundation to Expand Globaloria in West VirginiaOctober 7, 2010
The ESA Foundation awards a first grant to the World Wide Workshop to support scaling the integration of Globaloria in schools across West Virginia. Their support also facilitates the expansion of the annual Globaloria STEM Game Design Competition, and the launch of the Globaloria Inspiration Awards for outstanding schools and counties. Read the press release here and on the ESA website. For more information on all nine grant awards, click here. Knight Foundation Partners with the World Wide Workshop FoundationOctober 1, 2010
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has issued its second consecutive grant to the World Wide Workshop Foundation in order to expand the Globaloria Civics and News learning initiative among students in low-income and rural schools across West Virginia. Read more here. ‘Voices from the Field’ Documentary Series Named Finalist in 2010 Lights. Camera. Help. Film Festival in Austin, TX.July 15, 2010
With filmmaker Andrew David Watson, we have been documenting learning stories and reflections of young Globaloria students and their educators. In 32 video vignettes, they talk about how ideas in mathematics, science, civics, design and engineering as well as social media technology, became more comprehensible through conceiving and programming web-games on social issues. Read more here. Globaloria 1st Annual STEM Games Competition Winners AnnouncedJune 16, 2010
U.S. Senator John D. Rockefeller IV and the World Wide Workshop Foundation announce winners of the 1st Annual Globaloria STEM Games Competition. Click here to see the results. Read more in our press archive. |
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