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ConnectedLib 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-BeingHarnessing Video Games to Cultivate Social and Emotional Learning
In the book, How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design, scholar Katherine Isbister observed that because of player agency, “games have an additional palette of social emotions at their disposal.” Suppose a...
Categories: Connected Learning, Digital Learning, Edtech, Featured, Research, Youth Well-BeingThe 2022 Connected Learning Summit, held virtually, engaged over 300 participants in interactive discussions about research, design, and practice, as well as hands-on workshops and inspiring talks. Videos of the plenaries, keynotes,...
Categories: Connected Learning, Digital Learning, Edtech, Educational Practice, Equity, Featured, HX, New Trends, Research, Youth Well-BeingPower On!: Why CS Education Can No Longer Pretend to Be “Neutral”
Power On!, our newly released graphic novel (MIT Press, April 2022), follows the experiences of four high school friends from diverse backgrounds as they confront the harm technology has done in their...
Categories: Connected Learning, Educational Practice, Equity, FeaturedConnected Learning Summit 2022 (#CLS2022) kicks off next week with a pre-conference day July 27 featuring online meetups on common issues in research, design and practice. Discussions will be facilitated by Research...
Categories: Connected Learning, Digital Learning, Equity, Featured, ResearchBuilding Race-Conscious and Justice-Oriented STEM Spaces: Learning from Women of Color Educators
“What does it take to cultivate safe, empowering and culturally sustaining STEM spaces for Youth of Color from low income backgrounds?” In Fall 2018, I helped lead a multi-year, multi-site NSF study...
Categories: Connected Learning, Critical Perspectives, Educational Practice, EquityIn addition to inspiring keynotes and plenaries, 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...
Categories: Connected Learning, Digital Citizenship, Digital Learning, Edtech, Educational Practice, Equity, Featured, ResearchDr. 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-BeingPlenary and Keynotes for the Connected Learning Summit 2022 Will Challenge and Inspire
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, Critical Perspectives, Educational Practice, Equity, Featured, ResearchEquity 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, ResearchGames + Learning + Society Reunion
GLS2022 – June 15-17, 2022, UCI is hosting a reunion of the Games + Learning + Society community, in person, live and unedited, on site and up close. So, if you are...
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