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A 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-BeingTimbuk2 – 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-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-BeingCall for Proposals Now Open for the Sixth Annual Connected Learning Summit
Call for proposals now open for the sixth annual Connected Learning Summit, which will run entirely online from October 26 to 28, 2023. Submissions open: March 6, 2023 Deadline for submissions: June...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Connected Learning, Critical Perspectives, Digital Citizenship, Digital Learning, Edtech, Educational Practice, Equity, Featured, HX, New Trends, Research, Youth Well-BeingDr. Maïko Le Lay will present on the work described below at CLS2022, in the session “Connected Approaches to STEAM Learning" (Wednesday 7/27, 9:00am). In our ethnographic research conducted in informal STEM...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Connected Learning, Digital Learning, Equity, Research, Youth Well-BeingEquity Is Not Justice: Designing for the Struggle
The CLL community, a vital center of creative work in HCI, games, and other kinds of learning technologies for nearly twenty years, has consistently countered illusory promises of the democratizing influence of...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Connected Learning, Critical Perspectives, Digital Learning, Educational Practice, Equity, Featured, ResearchIn their 2018 report, Let’s Go There, Cathy Cohen, Joseph Kahne and Jessica Marshall argue for the importance of “Lived Civics,” an approach to civic education that is centered on “attention to...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Featured, ResearchThese days, it seems impossible to escape the crushing psychological weight of Black death and dying. Everywhere I turn - my social media accounts, local and international news, attendance at protests -...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Critical Perspectives, EquityWhat Does Digital Civic Engagement Mean in the Era of COVID-19?
Is creating a TikTok video really an example of civic engagement? How about changing your Facebook profile image in service of a cause? Are young people really as disconnected from their civic...
Categories: Civic Engagement, ResearchHighlights From the 2019 Connected Learning Summit
The 2019 Connected Learning Summit, held at the University of California, Irvine earlier this month featured some provocative talks, inspiring attendees to consider what role they can play in addressing some of...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Connected Learning, Digital Learning“No Permission Necessary”: Bringing Young Activists to the Connected Learning Summit
Stepping in front of over 800,000 people gathered at the March for Our Lives in Washington D.C. (and many more watching via live-stream and on cable news networks), Emma González stood fearlessly...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Connected LearningStudy Finds Sizable Impact of Civic Media Literacy Education on Democratic Engagement
Youth, through efforts that leverage the power of social media, are often driving many of the most important social movements of our era -- from the #Dreamers, to #BlackLivesMatter, to the push...
Categories: Civic Engagement, ResearchOnline Course for Educators: Youth and Civic Media
Interested in learning to help your students research issues they care about, engage in rich dialogue, and participate effectively in the digital world? The Civic Engagement Research Group at UC Riverside and KQED Education are teaming...
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