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...
Earlier 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...
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...
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...
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.”...
The 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...
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...
Connected 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...
“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...
In 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...
