The 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-BeingConnected Learning
When Learning is Irresistable: 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-BeingThe Power of Participatory Projects: Public Media and Gen Z
New research from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center shows the power of involving young people in community organizations as partners, not just beneficiaries. Gen Z in the Room: Making Public Media By...
Categories: Connected Learning, Critical Perspectives, Digital Learning, Equity, Featured, 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-BeingEducators are urged to teach “computer science for all!” In our new book, based on ten years of work at YR Media, we respond with a question: “Code for what?” What if...
Categories: Connected Learning, Critical Perspectives, Digital Citizenship, Digital Learning, Equity, Featured, Youth Well-BeingConnectedLib Toolkit 2.0: Bringing Connected Learning to Small and Rural Libraries
For the last seven years, I’ve been working with a talented and committed group of researchers and library practitioners on the ConnectedLib Project, a research-practice partnership focused on bringing connected learning to...
Categories: Connected Learning, Critical Perspectives, Digital Learning, Educational Practice, Equity, Featured, ResearchPerforming Mathematics Through Crafting: A Workshop From A Constructionist Approach
Fiber craft textiles have played an important role in the development of technology and the advancement of STEM areas. Crochet contributed to the transformation of non-Euclidean geometry due to the consolidation of...
Categories: Connected Learning, Educational Practice, Featured, ResearchEarlier this summer, our Creative Communities research group at the University of Colorado Boulder launched “A Facilitators’ Guide to Family Creative Learning, the ScratchJr Edition”. This guide, which can be downloaded for...
Categories: Connected Learning, Digital Learning, Educational Practice, Featured, New Trends, ResearchThere’s An App For That? Tackling Teen Mental Health With Digital Solutions
Emily was feeling stressed – her day was not going well. She’d bombed her math test and had a fight with her mom over whether she could stay out later than usual...
Categories: Connected Learning, Critical Perspectives, Research, Youth Well-BeingGetting Over Privacy: Surveillance Studies and Edtech
Writing for this blog in 2013, Dr. John Jones warned, “[D]igital technologies are increasingly important not just to learning, but to all facets of students’ lives[,] and reminders of the breaches of...
Categories: Connected Learning, Critical Perspectives, Digital Citizenship, Digital Learning, Equity, Featured, Research, Youth Well-Being
