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MaMaMedia was an educational consulting firm run by Idit Harel, specializing in applications of
constructionist learning The British Constructivists, also called the Constructionist Group, or Constructionists, were an informally constituted group of British artists, working in a ''constructivist'' mode, with no formal membership or manifesto. The groups most active ...
theory. Founded in 1995, MaMaMedia.com was designed to foster
digital literacy Digital literacy is an individual's ability to find, evaluate, and communicate information using typing or digital media platforms. Digital literacy combines technical and cognitive abilities; it consists of using information and communication tec ...
skills for children using constructionist theory principles. It was awarded the GII Award for Education in 1999 "for helping kids become life-long learners". The site provided web users with a range of "playful learning" activities and projects. Between 1996 and 2000, the company developed and grew in the emerging Internet and print marketplaces, publishing the first print
magazine A magazine is a periodical literature, periodical publication, print or digital, produced on a regular schedule, that contains any of a variety of subject-oriented textual and visual content (media), content forms. Magazines are generally fin ...
for children about the Internet, ''MaMaMedia: A Kid's Guide to the Net''.


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