Over at the Spotlight blog, Sarah Jackson is writing about the HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation 2010 Digital Media & Learning competition underway:

At the competition site you can browse 50 or 300 word project descriptions in both the Game Changers and Learning Lab Designer categories. At quick glance I read about using social media to help kids dialogue on racial inequity, data literacy and visualization through visual arts education, and using LittleBigPlanet to teach about gravitational pull.

More suggestions from the competitions blog on how to get involved:

• Browse around the site.  You can search for projects by tag words that interest you, like robots or climate change, or look at the tag cloud for other clues.  You can see which projects are generating the most comments or see which ones were commented on most recently.
• Navigate, explore and share your thoughts.  Do you think the idea is a good one? Do you have any suggestions on how to make it better? Interested in collaborating?  The applicants will have a chance to incorporate your input during the resubmission period.
• All of the projects have distinct URLs, so you can tweet, blog and share applications and solicit feedback.

The public will also be able to vote for Peoples Choice competition awards in the spring.

The competition, an annual effort designed to find and to inspire the most novel uses of new media in support of learning, awards $2 million annually to innovators shaping the field of digital media and learning. You can view past projects here.

Register to add your comments at the competitions website. Read more about the competition on Spotlight.