Powerful Ideas for Global Learning and Leadership in the 21st Century

Raleigh County School District: Globaloria Showcases Skills

Games for Change: Idit Rants Against Game-Based Learning Trends

Education Week: Educators Teach Coding Through Gaming

Huffington Post: Reflections on ConnectEd

EdSurge: 40 Tools to Learn Coding

Southwest Key Programs: 2013 Globey Awards at EAPrep

Silicon Valley Latino: Empowering Youth through Globaloria

Globaloria Students Awarded Silver Medals and Gold Keys in Scholastic Art and Writing Awards 2013

Adobe Featured Blogs: Adobe Supports Globeys

KXAN News: Globaloria Readies EAPrep Students for College

Huffington Post: Empowering Latinas in Computing

NCWIT Summit: Workshop Team Host Flash Talk

Microsoft Silicon Valley Microdocumentary

TechEdge Magazine Features Globaloria as Cover Story

Silicon Valley Latino: Advisory Board Member on Globaloria

SIIA Selects Globaloria for Innovation Incubator

Southwest Key Programs: Award-Winning Globaloria Students

Austin Statesman: Making Games, Building Skills

NSBA: Workshop Featured as Technology Innovator

Skoll World Forum: Idit Harel Caperton Featured Panelist

Huffington Post: GlassLab & Beyond

Getting Smart: Who’s the Learner of Game-Based Ed-Tech

Microsoft Partners in Learning: Rethinking MOOCs

Future of Education: Idit Harel Caperton on Social Learning

SXSWedu Features Workshop President & Partners

Huffington Post: Idit Harel Caperton Reflects on TED Prize

Globaloria Highlighted in EAPrep Video

Education Industry Association: Technology as a Force Multiplier in Learning

Obama Calls for More Kids to Make Games

MIT Alumni News Website Features Idit Harel Caperton

In a post on Slice of MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Association featured the work of Idit Harel Caperton (PhD '88) in developing "educational game-changer" Globaloria. Read the post here.

(National Press): Globaloria Celebrates Digital Learning Day 2013: Program Showcases Digital Learning in Action

Three thousand youth in 50 schools and community centers across the nation opened their classrooms to demonstrate the power of digital teaching and learning the Globaloria way on the second annual Digital Learning Day on February 6.

As part of Digital Learning Day, World Wide Workshop, partnered with the Alliance for Excellent Education to celebrate innovative teaching practices that make learning more engaging for students. World Wide Workshop's Globaloria program is the first and largest social learning network for developing digital literacy, STEM knowledge and global citizenship skills through game design. Read the full press release.

This event was featured in:

• Telemundo (WNJU) (TV News about TYWLS of Astoria, featuring Liz Gonzalez - in Spanish)
• KGO-TV ABC (TV News about Santa Teresa HS and Christopher School, San Jose, CA)
• WTRF - CBS (TV News)
• WOWK (TV News)
• WDTV 5 News (TV News about Preston High School, Kingwood, WV and Randolph Technical Center, Elkins, WV)
• Getting Smart (Education Blog of Tom Vander Ark)
• Huffington Post (Women in Tech Blog)
• Austin Statesman (News Article about WV Schools)
• San Antonio Express (News Article about Globaloria Schools)
• Yahoo News (Web News about Santa Teresa HS and Christopher School, San Jose, CA)
• One News Page (Web News about US Business)
• WBOY 12 News (News Article about Grafton High School, Grafton, WV
• The Inter-Mountain (News Article about Randolph Technical Center, Beverly, WV)
• Mountain Statesman (News Article about Taylor County Technical Center, Grafton, WV)
• Herald-Dispatch (News Article about WV Schools)
• Adobe Featured Blogs (Company Blog of Adobe)
• Creative Maze (Games Blog)
• Southwest Key Programs (Nonprofit Organization Blog)
• East Austin College Prep (School Website, EAPrep, Austin, TX)
• Captital High School (School Website, Capital HS, Charleston, WV)
• Adobe Middle East & North Africa Facebook Group (Facebook post on Globaloria Schools)
• Silicon Valley Education Foundation Facebook Group (Facebook post on Globaloria Schools)
• @MicrosoftSV (Twitter)
• @ESAGovAffairs (Twiiter)
• @AdobeEdu (Twitter)
• @AdobeMENA (Twitter)
• @AdobeNZ (Twitter)
• @DLDay2013 (Twitter)
• @mass_digi (Twitter)
• @GameDesignshare (Twitter)
• @LenardLo (Twitter)

Adobe Invites Donations to Support Globaloria

In a post on Adobe Featured Blogs, Adobe Foundation announces a matching gift program in which they will match 100% of donations to Globaloria, up to $50,000. The program is announced in conjunction with a call for more students to be given the opportunity that Globaloria provides to develop digital literacy. Read the post here.

Tech & Learning: How to Implement a Game-Design Program in Your School

In this post, Tech & Learning provides an overview of resources available to educators wanting to incorporate game-design in the classroom. Globaloria is cited as a comprehensive option offering curriculum, professional development, and support.

Press Release: National School Boards Association Showcases World Wide Workshop

The World Wide Workshop is one of six companies named to the 2013 National School Boards Association Technology Innovation Showcase. The Showcase is designed to educate school board members and district leaders about the innovative companies that are transforming education. Read the full press release here.

The Journal of Media Literacy Publishes Issue on Globaloria

A special report on Globaloria was published by The Journal of Media Literacy. The Workshop's efforts to increase media literacy through innovative education programs like Globaloria were recognized by the National Telemedia Council in the publication, "Globaloria: Students Making Game Media for Literacy and Learning." Read the report here.

Getting Smart: Digital Learning, Deeper Learning

In their report, "How Digital Learning Contributes to Deeper Learning," Tom VanderArk and Carri Schneider of Getting Smart identify specific ways that digital learning tools create deeper learning opportunities for students, and they cite Globaloria as a leading digital learning tool in fostering such deeper educational opportunities. See the infographic here and download the full report here.

Microsoft Highlights Globaloria for Building Youth Knowledge and Skill

Globaloria was featured in Microsoft's Catalyst magazine as a results-proven solution to engaging students in skill-building STEM education. The article outlines the Globaloria curriculum and demonstrated results, such as improving student cognitive learning abilities, in support of the Globaloria program tenet that coding is the "new literacy." Read the article here.

NMC Horizon Report Cites Globaloria

The New Media Consortium (NMC) Horizon Report discusses the top emerging technologies, trends, and challenges that will impact K-12 teaching and learning over the next five years. The report cites Globaloria as an example of impactful game-based learning already in practice.

Huffington Post: Idit Harel Caperton on Building and Spreading Knowledge that Matters

On her Huffington Post blog, Dr. Idit Harel Caperton questions whether computer coding knowledge is a double-edged sword. While the ability to communicate and collaborate across borders and language barriers can be valuable for solving global problems, it may also be applied toward negative ends. Dr. Harel Caperton suggests that a national commitment to teaching computing in schools, and starting early in a child's education, will promote these powerful skills for responsible, solution-oriented applications. This item was also featured on One News Page and CSEdWeek.

Education Week Spotlights Globaloria as a Computing Education Solution

Globaloria was spotlighted as a leader of computing education in the Reimagining K-12 blog on Education Week. In his post, Tom Segal recognizes Globaloria as a successful example of a school-integrated program that introduces students to coding within the context of the failing in and critical need for incorporating more computer programming in K-12 curricula. Click here to read the post.

Adobe Showcases Globaloria as STEM & Computing Education Success Story

Globaloria was featured on Adobe's K-12 Education Showcase website as a written success story of STEM learning through technology. The article highlights the mission of Globaloria to advance STEM and computing knowledge through programming with industry standard tools, such as Adobe Flash, and the educational benefits of hands-on learning for youth around the nation. Read the article here as well as the Adobe blogpost by Johann Zimmern, Worldwide Group Manager of K12 Education, Adobe.

View additional media coverage:

• T.H.E. Journal: Better Learning Through Game Design
• SIIA Ed Tech Daily: K-12 News
• East Austin College Prep News

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Press Release: Idit Harel Caperton Presents at EmTech Conference at MIT

World Wide Workshop founder and president Dr. Idit Harel Caperton was a featured presenter on a panel of leading thinkers on education technology innovation at EmTech 2012, a conference examining the significance of new technologies. Dr. Caperton's panel, entitled "EmTech Prism: Education and Learning" also featured One Laptop Per Child founder Nicholas Negroponte, Institute of Play managing director Brian Waniewski and edX President Anant Agarwal discussing technology's impact on the future of learning for students in the U.S. and around the world. Click here to read the press release and here to watch Dr. Caperton's talk.

This event was also featured in:

• SFGate
• Scientific American
• PRWeb

WiredAcademic: Idit Harel Caperton Guest Opinion Post is Calling for Integrating Instructionism and Constructionism in "Flipped Classrooms"

In her recent Opinion Post on WiredAcademic, Dr. Idit Harel Caperton makes a case for schools and technology/content providers to couple "Instructionism" and "Constructionism" to create more effective "flipped classrooms." Dr. Caperton argues that the instructor-led, tutorial model of education must be integrated with a project-based, learn-by-doing model in order to deeply engage and encourage students to learn how to learn and become architects of their own cognition and education.

Edutopia: Idit Harel Caperton Guest Blog on "Flipping Classrooms"

In her guest blog post on Edutopia, Dr. Idit Harel Caperton challenges entrepreneurs and educators to think more creatively about the opportunities technology offers to affect meaningful change in classrooms. Online learning has been heralded as transformative, but the learning models currently employed leave students with untapped potential for driving their own learning. Idit argues that the change must come from a flipped-classroom model that combines "Instructionism with Constructionism" by encouraging students to learn-by-doing to truly transform the instructor-led, tutoring-system model.

La Voz de Austin: East Austin 8th Grader Makes It To Carnegie Hall

In their August 2012 edition, La Voz de Austin has done a full-page profile on Globaloria student Michael Alvarez of the East Austin College Prep Academy. The article highlights his attendance at the 2012 National Scholastic Art & Writing Award at Carnegie Hall in June as a Gold Medalist and AMD Game Changer in the videogame category. Congratulations Michael! Click here to read the article.

Charleston Gazette, National Press Highlight West Virginia Globey and Inspiration Awards

Alison Matas of the Charleston Gazette, takes a close look at two finalist teams in the 2012 Globey Game Design Awards for the state of West Virginia. Ms. Matas' article is one of several that covered the two annual Globaloria events in Charleston on August 10: 1) Globey Awards, and 2) Education Leaders Inspiration Awards. Read the full press release hereand view recent media coverage here:

• WBOY TV
• The State Journal
• BrainPop Blog
• The Inter Mountain - Part 1
• The Inter Mountain - Part 2
• The Journal

Classroom Aid: Students Tackle Video-Game Design - Globaloria

Classroom Aid, a blog dedicated to "connecting the dots for digital teaching and learning," has taken a closer look at the Globaloria program, with emphasis on its increased profile as our nation increases focus on STEM-related education. In their post, Students Tackle Video-Game Design - Globaloria, the author describes many of the highlights of the program since its inception in 2006. Click here to read the article.

Huffington Post: Idit Harel Caperton Focuses on What is Working

In her most recent Huffington Post blog, Dr. Idit Harel Caperton has joined forces with Ms. Huffington and her Opportunity Campaign. Dr. Harel Caperton suggests that we can make great strides in closing the jobs deficit in our nation by raising a generation of learners who are digitally literate and computationally competent. Programs and initiatives such as Globaloria can serve economically and technologically deprived communities by placing an emphasis on "learning by doing," a process vital to building young people's critical reasoning and problem solving skills. This item was also featured in: Opportunity on HuffPost!

Rutgers University: World Wide Workshop Research Partner Awarded Major Federal Grant to Study Globaloria In Depth

Rutgers University, the longest participating research partner of the World Wide Workshop, has been awarded more than $500,000 in support of further investigations into digital learning. The principal investigator, Dr. Rebecca Reynolds of the Library and Information Science department at Rutgers University, was selected for the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program's Early Career Development Award. The three-year grant, which includes $399,995 in award dollars and a matching amount of $277,684, will examine the impact of gaming on learning among disadvantaged middle and high school students nationwide participating in Globaloria. Click here to read the press release from Rutgers University.

Connect With Your Teens Blog: 5 Educational Gaming Organizations to Follow

Jennifer Wagner of the Connect With Your Teens through Pop Culture and Technology blog attended the 2012 Games for Change Festival and was impressed by a small group of educational gaming organizations, including Globaloria, that are helping students develop digital literacies and STEM knowledge. Visit the Connect With Your Teens website to read more.

Press Release: World Wide Workshop Awarded Empowerment Grant from Motorola Mobility Foundation

World Wide Workshop has been awarded a $20,000 Empowerment Grant from the Motorola Mobility Foundation in support of the Globaloria network in Silicon Valley, California. One of 42 organizations nationwide, the grant recognizes the important work and mission of the World Wide Workshop and will enable more than 1300 youth in Silicon Valley to engage with technology in an effort to enhance their lives and expand their opportunities for success and leadership in today's digital world. Read the full press release here. This event was also featured in:

• Digital Journal
• PR Web
• SFGate
• Top Foundation Grants

Current.com: Solving Real-World Problems through Gaming, 2 of 3; Coding Literacy as a Human Right

The second of a 3-part series, this blog post by Daniela Capistrano of Current.com focuses on the ways in which coding literacy could revolutionize the way humanity approaches problems. "I think coding literacy is a human right," said Dr. Idit Harel Caperton in an interview with Current TV during G4C2012. "When you want people to learn how to read, they have to practice it every day in different ways. Coding is the new reading and writing." In the second feature, "'The Matrix is a system, Neo': 10 reasons why coding literacy should be a human right" Lair spoke with Dr. Caperton about the case for coding literacy as a 21st century human right. Click here to read the blog.

Current.com: Solving Real-World Problems through Gaming, 1 of 3

Following her talk at the 2012 International Games4Change Festival in NYC this week, Workshop founder Dr. Idit Harel Caperton and her Globaloria was selected to be featured among the top 5 games at Games4Change by CurrentTV journalist Daniela Capistrano ("5 ways to level up your life through gameplay") about the ways in which gaming can prepare young people of all backgrounds to succeed. "I can't imagine any kid growing up and learning how to read but not write. You become a better reader when you learn to write. It's how we teach people filmmaking and journalism. It should be the same with games," says Dr. Idit Harel Caperton. Click here to read the blog.

Education Week: Students Tackle Video-Game Design

Globaloria students and teachers in West Virginia, Texas and California are showcased in the summer 2012 issue of Education Week's Digital Directions. Read Ian Quillen's profile for a look into how this curriculum is helping to prepare students for college and career. "The specialization that often occurs in groups of students that design games—when they split the tasks of coding, graphic artistry, and concept design, for example—and the resulting communication lessons are becoming more widely recognized by mainstream educators," writes Quillen, who visited Globaloria classrooms at Tygarts Valley Middle and High School in Mill Creek, West Virginia. This article was featured in:

• DML Spotlight
• Education Week Digital Directions Featured Newsletter Story
• Education Week Digital Directions Online Feature

Knight Foundation Blog: Celebrating Student Game Designers with Our Partners and the San Jose/Silicon Valley Community

Workshop President Idit Harel Caperton and Knight Foundation Program Director Judith Kleinberg recently wrote about the Globey Awards in Silicon Valley. The Knight Foundation, along with the Silicon Valley Education Foundation (SVEF), Oak Grove School District and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley, are partners in the Workshop's efforts to cultivate digital literacies and computational abilities among youth in one of the most educationally-and technologically-underserved communities in the country. Click here to read the blog.

Huffington Post: Idit Harel Caperton Highlights Computing Industry's Opportunities for Young Women

In parts one and two of her blog on Huffington Post, Dr. Idit Harel Caperton makes the case that the booming global computing and gaming industries provide perfect career opportunities for the generation of young women currently in primary, secondary and higher education. By learning math, science and computer science now, girls can grow into successful developers, programmers and industry leaders—and we must support them in their efforts to do so now. This event was featured in:

• DML Spotlight
• Cooney Center Blog

National Press: Announcing the 2012 Globey Awards

Around the country, students and communities participating in Globaloria are gathering for the annual Globey Award ceremonies, where teams will learn whether the results of their hard work and creativity in game design over the past year has won them a seat in the winners' circle. Click to read the national press release and localized releases from San Jose, Florida, and Texas.

Austin Chronicle: Coding is Hard - But Not for the Middle Schoolers of Texas' EAPrep

The Austin Chronicle's James Renovitch, who covers gaming for the paper, joined the students, families and educators at East Austin College Prep Academy (EAPrep) in Texas for the 2012 Globey Awards ceremony on May 17. "I once tried to make a video-game. To put the entire experiment on a bumper sticker, it didn't work out. Coding is hard. And the fact that middle-schoolers were showing off their games, only made me feel worse..." writes Renovitch. Read on for his take on the winning games and the talented students of EAPrep.

Getting Smart: Out of Poverty Into Opportunity

In this featured post on Getting Smart, Idit Harel Caperton reflects on two underserved communities, McDowell County, West Virginia and East Austin, Texas, that have used the innovative Globaloria curriculum to position students for "projects and careers in some of the fastest-growing sectors of the digital economy."

Getting Smart: "Self-Learning" is the New "Schooling"

In a featured post on Tom Vander Ark's Getting Smart blog, Idit Harel Caperton considers how technology can help empower young people to be the drivers of their learning experiences—and how programs like Globaloria are making it possible for students across the country. Click here to read more.

KLRU-TV: Globaloria at East Austin College Prep Academy Highlight

Watch this short video showcasing Globaloria, and how it is empowering youth at EAPrep in Texas with the skills for college and career success through game design.

Bizjournal.com: Silicon Valley Globaloria Students Visit Adobe For a Firsthand Look at STEM Careers

Middle school students from across Silicon Valley visited Adobe Systems headquarters in San Jose to share the games they've created in Globaloria. The students, who are participating through San Jose area schools and Boys and Girls Clubs, received feedback and advice from Adobe executives on Flash programming and STEM careers. Read the full article and the blog post. This article was also featured as an Adobe Featured Blog

Boy Scouts Magazine Features Globaloria

Boys' Life, the official publication of the Boy Scouts of America, highlighted Globaloria in the games section of its April 2012 edition. Visit boyslife.org for an overview of all the resources included in this month's issue.

MindShift: Student-Created Video Games Enter Science Class

Jennifer Roland of KQED's MindShift blog explores how teachers across the country, including William Dorsey of West Virginia's Kanawha County, are using Globaloria to help students develop a deep understanding of critical concepts in science. Click here to read more.

ZDNet Asia: Unleashing Creativity Through Technology

Adobe's Vice President of WorldWide Education Marketing, Jon Perera, believes that today's students need to develop creativity to thrive in today's globalized and competitive workplace—and that programs like Globaloria are key to enabling educators to help students do so. Click here to read more.

EdWeek: Gaming: Leveling Up Global Competence

How can gaming and game design help students of all ages become culturally proficient and globally aware? Honor Moorman of the Asia Society highlights Globaloria and other initiatives in this Education Week blog post. This article was also featured by the Asia Society.

US News & World Report: High-Quality STEM Education for All: It Takes a Village

Read on for World Wide Workshop founder Idit Harel Caperton's take on the need for investment from the public and private sector to make high-quality STEM education a reality for students across the country.

Huffington Post: Idit Harel Caperton Calls upon President Obama to Institute Education Bonds

In a recent article for the Huffington Post, World Wide Workshop founder Idit Harel Caperton advocates for the introduction of Education Bonds to foster critical investment and engagement in our nation's biggest asset—the next generation of leaders. "We are playing catch-up -- not so much with other nations as with the future," she writes. Click here to read more.

Austin American-Statesman: Students Creating Their Own Digital Learning Tools in Preparation for Future Tech Jobs

The Austin American-Statesman's Katie Glueck recently visited East Austin College Prep Academy (EAPrep), where she spoke to students, teachers and principal Marisol Rocha about the positive impact the school's daily Globaloria class is having on student achievement and engagement. Read the full article here.

Southwest Key Programs: Globaloria Creator Idit Harel Caperton Discusses Her March 2012 Visit To East Austin College Prep, Texas

Dr. Harel Caperton is featured on the blog of Southwest Key Programs, which funds the schoolwide implementation of Globaloria at East Austin College Prep (EAPrep) in Texas. Read more to hear how EAPrep's start-up approach to education blends with Globaloria's entrepreneurial spirit and how partners including Southwest Key and AMD Foundation are making it all possible.

Cincinnati.com: Globaloria: Inspiring Young People to Take Up Tech Careers Nationally

Globaloria was featured as an innovative approach to interesting young people in tech careers by Cincinnati.com's Enterchange blog. "Globaloria transforms middle and high school classrooms into network design studios in 60 schools in California, Florida, West Virginia, Texas and New York," writes blogger jkellogg. To read more, click here and scroll down to "Across the U.S.: High School Design Studios".

(National Press): Globaloria Students Celebrate Digital Learning Day 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:

• WBOY (TV News about Doddridge County HS, West Union, WV)
• WBOY (TV News about University HS, Morgantown, WV)
• WDTV (TV News about Tygarts Valley M&HS, Mill Creek, WV)
• CBS San Francisco (TV News about Christopher MS, San Jose, CA)
• WOWK TV (News Article about GW HS, Charleston, WV)
• WVNS-TV (News Article about WV Schools)
• The State Journal (News Article about GW HS, Charleston, WV)
• Charleston Gazette (News Article about GW HS, Charleston, WV)
• San Jose Mercury News (News Article about Herman MS, San Jose, CA)
• MSNBC (News Article about GW HS, Charleston, WV)
• The Inter Mountain (News Article about Randolph County, WV)
• The Inter Mountain (News Article about Tygarts Valley M&HS, Mill Creek, WV)
• The Inter Mountain (News Article about Philip Barbour HS, Philippi, WV)
• Williamson Daily News (News Article about Lenore K-8, Lenore, WV)
• World Journal (News Article about Herman MS, San Jose, CA, in Chinese)
• edSurge Weekly Newsletter for Innovators in Education
• Getting Smart, (The Education Blog of Tom Vander Ark)
• Knight Foundation Blog (News about Globaloria Schools)
• SWKey Blog (News about EAPrep, Austin, TX)
• Laura Minnigerode (Staff Blog, EAPrep, Austin, TX)
• Bill Dorsey (Educator Blog, Capital High School, Charleston, WV)
• Genvieve Dorsey (Educator Blog, STEM at Herman MS, San Jose, CA)
• Nyssa Arcos Evans (Educator Blog, EAPrep, Austin, TX)
• Deborah Super (Educator Blog, Elkins, WV)
• Mollie Ferguson (Educator Blog, Tygarts Valley MS, Mill Creek, WV)
• Sharon Cole (Educator Blog, Lincoln High, Shinnston, WV)
• @edSurge (Twitter)
• Photos (Flickr, Globaloria across the nation on Digital Learning Day)

Huffington Post: Memo to Mayor Bloomberg: Let Them Make Games!

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.

Huffington Post: Where Will the Next Generation of Innovators Come From?

"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.

Press Release: Google to Support Community-Wide Civic Engagement Game Design Projects in San Jose

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:

• Google Blog
• Google Gives Back Landing Page
• Gamasutra
• San Jose Business Journal
• Wired Academic
• Xperedon

Interview: Globaloria Founder Dr. Idit Harel Caperton On Video Games As The New Language Arts

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 Schools

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:

• Knight Foundation
• Editors Weblog

DLD: Idit Harel Caperton - Our Most Important Commodity is Education

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 Making

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!

“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 Valley

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:

• eSchool News

Videogames and Jazz: Globaloria at the National Jazz Museum of Harlem

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:

• Broadway World
• JazzTimes

Knight Foundation Partners with the World Wide Workshop in California

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:

• Dowser (see: Tech and Civic Engagement)
• The Knight Foundation Blog
• Philanthropy News Digest

Announcing the Winners of 2011 Globaloria Game Design Competitions

The World Wide Workshop 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:

• WV State Journal
• WV Department of Education News
• iCivics News
• WVNS TV
• The Register Herald
• Charleston Daily Mail (see: second-to-last "Thumbs Up")

Globaloria Students Demonstrate Tomorrow’s Skills to Today’s Education Leaders

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:

• WV State Journal
• The Charleston Gazette

SEED Magazine: Full Steam Ahead on CS-STEM Learning

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?

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.

Frontier Supports Globaloria Education Network in West Virginia

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:

• WV Metro News
• WV State Journal