It’s the new Latin isn’t it? It’s like, if you couldn’t read or write 600 years ago, you were on the outside, you were a peasant. So in the new world you...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital LearningDigital Learning
YR Media’s Storytelling Tools Keep Students Connected During COVID-19 Pandemic
At a time when young people are witnessing the disastrous effects of COVID-19 play out in their communities while physically isolated from peers, educational institutions and other support systems, storytelling and media-making...
Category: Digital LearningWhy should students learn computer science? For creativity? Jobs? Justice? Innovation? The answers to this question shape what computer science education (CSed) looks like in practice. A new CSforALL publication explores how the rationales,...
Category: Digital LearningA Resource-Packed Guide on How Digital Learning Can Connect Youth to Opportunity
When kids first join the Maker Foundations program at Digital Harbor Foundation, a technology-focused out-of-school organization in Baltimore, they are given a pile of everyday items such as an electric toothbrush, a plastic cup, a...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeHighlights 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 LearningToday’s U.S. teens are more connected – to the internet, information and each other – than any previous generation, with 95 percent having access to a smartphone and 45 percent saying that...
Categories: Connected Learning, Digital LearningResearch-Backed Toolkit Helps Youth Organizations Integrate Digital Learning
The Beam Center in Brooklyn is an out-of-school maker program that teaches teenagers technical skills like welding, woodworking and microcontroller interface design; they collaborate on a range of cool projects from mushroom...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational Practice, ResearchThe Power of Learning Communities: Three Things I Learned from a Research-Practice Partnership
How do we best equip the rising generation to thrive in a rapidly changing, connected world? At Susan Crown Exchange (SCE) we are explicitly focused on this question. One thing we know...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational Practice, ResearchThe Importance of Bringing the Wisdom of Our Connected World to Education
At the beginning of this year, Jordan Shapiro published the book, The New Childhood: Raising Kids to Thrive in a Digitally Connected World. For those who are unfamiliar with Shapiro’s work, he...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital LearningNew Toolkit Shares Best Practices for Achieving Success in Youth-Centered Digital Learning
Researchers at the Connected Learning Lab of University of California, Irvine (June Ahn) and New York University (Rafi Santo, Juan Pablo Sarmiento) are excited to announce the launch of “Reclaiming Digital Futures,”...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational Practice, ResearchDesigning 2030: The Concord Consortium’s Big Dreams for the Future of Education
The Concord Consortium’s new initiative is setting its sights on the future of education. Designing 2030 is galvanizing plans to revolutionize STEM teaching and learning with the goal of reaching more students with...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticePower Up Your Personal Learning Network with Open Online Connected Courses
Are you tapping the power of open online networks to fuel your personal learning network? Have you connected with educators, designers, and researchers who are grappling with how to teach and embody...
Categories: Connected Learning, Digital LearningThe Power of Games for Creative Learning
One of the most important things any educator can do is foster an environment where learning and playing are nearly synonymous. Lessons that are fun and engaging are far more likely to...
Categories: Digital Learning, New TrendsConnecting Learning Across the World — Announcing a New Special Issue
We are delighted to share the news about a special issue of the bilingual, Open Access journal Digital Education Review that we co-edited, focused on learning in and across settings and time...
Categories: Connected Learning, Digital LearningNew MIT Book Series Seeks Authors
How large-scale online environments — such as massive open online courses (MOOCs), intelligent tutoring systems, learning games, collaborative programming communities, community tutorial systems, social learning networks and numerous informal communities of learners...
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