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A 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 PracticeResearch-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, ResearchNew 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, ResearchResearchers at the University of Washington (Katie Davis, Ligaya Scaff, Milly Romeijn-Stout) and the University of Maryland (Mega Subramaniam, Kelly Hoffman) are delighted to announce the launch of the ConnectedLib Toolkit, a...
Categories: Connected Learning, Educational PracticeDesigning 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 PracticeHow to Be a Learning Instigator
When educator Michelle King teaches middle school students about America’s founding document, she kicks off the lesson by asking how people today break up with each other. A simple electronic text or...
Category: Educational PracticeConnecting Rural Educators: Professional Development Goes Digital
Many educators in our DML network will be familiar with The National Writing Project (NWP), a 45-year-old professional development network, whose focus is on improving the teaching of writing across all grade...
Category: Educational PracticeConnected Learning and 21st Century English Teacher Education
Much of the current rhetoric about technology and education relates to devices and software programs — what types schools should purchase, how much money districts should spend on them, how they should...
Categories: Connected Learning, Educational PracticeGoogle Report Reveals State of K-12 Computer Science Education
Computer scientists still are in high demand in the U.S., people of color still are disproportionately underrepresented in the field and whether and how computer science (CS) is taught varies wildly, according...
Category: Educational PracticeAmplifying Student Voice Through Digital Resources, Part 2
“Our stories that we tell are so powerful because when we are the one’s telling it, we have control over our stories and the messages that we are sending.” — Alejandra Ramirez...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeAmplifying Student Voice Through Digital Resources, Part 1
As I shared in a previous post, I’ve spent this semester working with 84 incredible freshmen and 10 writing mentors, exploring digital culture and identities in our first-year writing course. We read...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Educational PracticeCreativity is Fundamental for Lifelong Learning
Creativity is for everyone, according to Mitchel Resnick, the LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, where he directs the Lifelong Kindergarten research group. “It’s...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeReteaching Teaching: Pedagogy and Teacher Training for the Digital Age
Digital media and networks, like blackboards and post-it notes, are tools whose effectiveness depends on how they are used. Whether you call it “connected learning” or a “new culture of learning,” deploying...
Categories: Connected Learning, Educational PracticeTaking Control of Digital Identity
My college freshmen, all 84, are deep into a study of digital cultures and digital literacies as we head toward Week 4 of our semester. I designed this first-year comp class so...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational Practice
