An education research team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will receive $3 million from the MacArthur Foundation to study the impact of digital media on youth culture, learning, and literacy.
MacArthur’s total $50 million investment will support 24 national studies of different aspects of the digital revolution and its educational and societal implications.
“What MacArthur is actually trying to do, with this grant to us, is establish the field of video games and learning,” said James Paul Gee, principal investigator in the UW-Madison project.
“It’s a new field,” Gee said, “We will do the research to establish what the key issues, topics, and approaches in the field ought to be, and the implementation of new programs.”