An intriguing premise for those of you interested in the intersection of digital learning and school design:

We are faced today by a pressing question: How do institutions– social, civic, educational–transform in response to and in order to promote new kinds of learning in the information age?

The aforementioned question comes out of a recent “Digital Media and Learning” blog post by Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation.

Ms. Davidson and Mr. Goldberg are leading a project called “The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital World” that involves a collaborative website that seeks your feedback:

We will post drafts of the document to a collaborative website, soliciting feedback from policy makers, administrators, researchers, teachers, and students (of all ages). We will host face-to-face meetings to discuss both our evolving document and the feedback.

One session will take place at the international conference of HASTAC (”haystack,” an acronym for Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory). HASTAC is a virtual institution devoted to advancing humane and humanistic digital technologies and the knowledge they make possible through collaborative work between humanists, artists, scientists and engineers.

Hard to ignore the final school design call-to-arms they offer here:

We are committed to envisioning and co-developing learning institutions for the future.

A school-design-meets-the-future-of-learning dialogue that might be worth keeping an eye on.

And we also recommend peeking in at the blogging and research links being offered daily at the “Digital Media and Learning” blog hosted by MacArthur. Some truly provocative ideas being explored there!