The Digital Natives Project is exploring the impacts of a generational demarcation
between those born with these technologies and those who were not. The project
will address the issues and benefits of this digital media landscape and gain valuable
insight into how digital natives make sense of their experiences online. This
information will help make recommendations to educators and legislators in a
way that supports young people and harnesses the exciting possibilities their
digital fluency presents. Digital Natives is a research project of the Berkman
Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and the Research Center
for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. 

Established in March, 2004, The Education Conservancy (EC) is a non-profit
organization committed to improving college admission processes for students,
colleges and high schools. By harnessing the research, ideas, leadership and
imagination of thoughtful educators, EC delivers appropriate advice, advocacy
and services. In a short period of time EC has established its presence and
enlisted significant interest and support nationwide.

Established by Kirsten Broadfoot, Assistant Professor of Communications,
Colorado State University, the Good Work Circle is an online community
dedicated to the support and education of individuals interested in constructing
and sustaining good work and good workplaces. Here you can ask for advice,
find resources to help you with designing your own good work and good
workplace, as well as connect to others working with the same principles
and commitments in place.

The Institute for Global Ethics (IGE) promotes ethical behavior around the
world from its offices in the U.S., U.K., and Canada. It serves business,
government, and educational institutions, publishes Ethics Newsline™ online,
and conducts frequent Ethical Fitness® seminars and training. 

The Interdisciplinary Studies Project is a multi-year research project at
Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education, funded by the Atlantic
Philanthropies.  The project examines the challenges and opportunities of
interdisciplinary (ID) work carried out by experts, faculty, and students in
well recognized research and education contexts. Building on an empirical
understanding of cognitive and social dimensions of interdisciplinary work,
the project develops practical tools to guide quality interdisciplinary education.

Hans Henrik Knoop, Royal Danish University of Education, Denmark

Hans Henrick Knoop is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Educational Psychology at the Royal Danish University.  Knoop has conducted
studies of “good work” in Denmark and Latvia.  Overall, his research is
aimed at gaining deeper understandings in three inter-related areas, all
supporting happiness and well-being in human life: complexity, growth,
self-organization and balance as key variables at all levels in nature,
psyche and culture; play, learning, creativity and social responsibility within
the framework of positive psychology; and psychological contributions to
organization and leadership at all levels. 

The New Media Literacies project (NML), funded by the John T. and Catherine
D. MacArthur Foundation, is currently thinking through basic guidelines
regarding digital literacy, guided by two questions: What do young people
need to know in order to become full, active, creative, critical, and ethically
responsible participants in a media-rich environment?, and what steps do
we need to take to make sure that these skills are available to all?  The
NML project promotes student-driven, creative, collaborative learning
environments facilitated through digital media and new network
technologies. Students learn not only technical skills but also conceptual
frameworks which will help them to think about the role of media in their
lives as consumers, producers, and participants. They will develop a
critical framework for thinking about representation and expression;
they will explore ethical issues surrounding participation and collaboration;
they will discover new models of media expression; and they will learn
more about the contexts within which media is produced and consumed.
The NML project is led by Dr. Henry Jenkins at MIT's Comparative Media
Studies program.

Noble and Greenough School is a coeducational, nonsectarian day and
five-day boarding school of 550 students in grades seven through twelve.
It is located on a 187-acre campus in Dedham, Massachusetts.  Since the
summer of 2005, GoodWork Project and the Nobles community have been
working closely together, using the GoodWork Toolkit at Nobles.  Here are
some examples of the work they have accomplished together: Workshop
with Academic Department Heads; Faculty Retreat; Class IV (9th grade)
Retreat and Parent Evening; Use of Toolkit Case Studies in Personal
Development curriculum; Extensive Research with Nobles Constituencies
(faculty, students, parents).

Project Zero's mission is to understand and enhance learning, thinking,
and creativity in the arts, as well as humanistic and scientific disciplines,
at the individual and institutional levels.

The Quality of Life Research Center (QLRC) is a non-profit research institute
that studies "positive psychology"; that is, human strengths such as creativity,
intrinsic motivation, and responsibility.  The QLRC is directed by Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi and Jeanne Nakamura at the Drucker School of Management
at Claremont Graduate University.

Under the direction of William Damon, The Stanford Center on Adolescence
aims to promote the character and competence of all young people growing
up in today's world. The Center's work provides guidance for parenting, for
improved educational practice, and for youth development in a wide variety
of community settings.

Under the direction of William Damon at the Stanford Center on Adolescence,
the Youth Purpose Project aims to establish youth purpose as an important
focus of scientific study and educational practice.  The project investigated
the types of commitments young people hold and how those commitments
develop. The Center's interest in purpose is fueled by the conviction that
it can play a powerfully generative role in development and can guard
against adverse outcomes.