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In addition to our inspiring keynotes, plenaries, and meetups, this year’s Connected Learning Summit features interactive workshops and roundtables offered by Connected Learning Alliance partners. Our partners are research labs, nonprofits, and research-practice collaborations leading the way in designing for a more equitable, participatory, learner-centered ecosystem. All workshops and roundtables will be offered in interactive… Read more »
In addition to our inspiring keynotes, plenaries, and meetups, this year’s Connected Learning Summit features interactive workshops and roundtables offered by Connected Learning Alliance partners. Our partners are research labs, nonprofits, and research-practice collaborations leading the way in designing for a more equitable, participatory, learner-centered ecosystem. All workshops and roundtables will be offered in interactive… Read more »
The Connected Learning Alliance is looking forward to our community of progressive educators, researchers, and technologists gathering to exchange learnings and ideas in the upcoming Connected Learning Summit. It is an annual gathering of innovators harnessing emerging technology to expand access to participatory, playful, and creative learning. This year’s summit will be held from October… Read more »
From the moment I joined the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub over 12 years ago, I knew I had found a special place that perfectly melded my education, professional experience, and values. The camaraderie, shared passion for our work, and unwavering support from each and every one of you that I have met along… Read more »
Announcing the Keynotes for the 2023 Connected Learning Summit
The Connected Learning Alliance is looking forward to our community of progressive educators, researchers, and technologists gathering to exchange learnings and ideas in the upcoming Connected Learning Summit. It is an annual...
Categories: Connected Learning, FeaturedA Race-Grounded Career Advising Framework
The Equitable Futures Innovation Network (EFIN) is a project of the Connected Learning Lab at UC Irvine, focused on fostering career equity in asset-based and identity-affirming ways (Nasir 2012). For the past...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Connected Learning, Critical Perspectives, Educational Practice, Equity, Featured, Research, Youth Well-BeingTimbuk2 Academy: Navigating Healthy Tensions to Build Partnership With Youth
This blog is the fourth of a series of case studies based upon the work of the Equitable Futures Innovation Network. The network brings together scholars and practitioners to identify cutting-edge practices...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Connected Learning, Educational Practice, Equity, Research, Youth Well-BeingThe positive benefits of youth interacting with technology are often ignored while the negatives are emphasized. It’s time for that to change. In a commitment to this effort, the Connected Learning Alliance,...
Categories: Connected Learning, Critical Perspectives, Digital Learning, Educational Practice, Equity, Featured, HX, New Trends, Research, Youth Well-BeingWhen Learning is Irresistible: An Invitation to Foster Inventive Mindsets
Image: Portland State University, Oregon MESA InventTeams In 2019 I stumbled upon the field of invention education when I joined a Lemelson-MIT (LMIT) research project examining how high school teams were using...
Categories: Connected Learning, Digital Learning, Educational Practice, Featured, New Trends, ResearchTimbuk2 – Anchored in a Historical Legacy of Care and Spirituality
“As a child that’s one thing that my parents really instilled in us as children is to know who you are and identify with what is most connected to you…We are Black...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Connected Learning, Digital Learning, Equity, Featured, New Trends, Research, Youth Well-BeingProceedings of the 2022 Connected Learning Summit Released
On behalf of the Connected Learning Summit Conference Committee, we are pleased to announce the publication of the Proceedings of the 2022 Connected Learning Summit. It is our honor to share with...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Connected Learning, Critical Perspectives, Digital Citizenship, Digital Learning, Edtech, Educational Practice, Equity, Featured, HX, New Trends, Research, Youth Well-BeingResponding to Race in Youth Career Development Practice
They're coming to us, without any work experience because of discrimination and lack of opportunities. Or with having had some work experience, but having struggled to successfully retain the job because of...
Categories: Connected Learning, Digital Learning, Educational Practice, Featured, Research, Youth Well-BeingTechnology’s Child: Making the Complex More Concrete for Research on Kids and Tech
I’ve been researching technology’s role in child development for nearly twenty years. For most of that time, whenever a non-researcher asked me for the verdict – is tech good or bad for...
Categories: Connected Learning, Critical Perspectives, Featured, HX, New Trends, Research, Youth Well-BeingMobilizing Teen-Centered Research Findings for Teen-Oriented Storytelling
The first and second authors of this blog post were teens in the the middle 2010s and the early 2000s, respectively. We experienced a media landscape vastly different from each other as...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Connected Learning, Digital Learning, Educational Practice, Equity, Featured, New Trends, Research, Youth Well-Being
