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Engage and Learn with Leading Innovators at CLS Workshops and Roundtables
In addition to our inspiring keynotes, plenaries, and meetups, this year’s Connected Learning Summit features interactive workshops and roundtables offered by Connected Learning Alliance partners. Our partners are research labs, nonprofits, and...
Categories: Edtech, Educational Practice, Equity, Featured, Research, Youth Well-BeingA Race-Grounded Career Advising Framework
The Equitable Futures Innovation Network (EFIN) is a project of the Connected Learning Lab at UC Irvine, focused on fostering career equity in asset-based and identity-affirming ways (Nasir 2012). For the past...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Connected Learning, Critical Perspectives, Educational Practice, Equity, Featured, Research, Youth Well-BeingTimbuk2 Academy: Navigating Healthy Tensions to Build Partnership With Youth
This blog is the fourth of a series of case studies based upon the work of the Equitable Futures Innovation Network. The network brings together scholars and practitioners to identify cutting-edge practices...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Connected Learning, Educational Practice, Equity, Research, Youth Well-BeingA New Edited Collection from MIT Press: Algorithmic Rights and Protections for Children
With widespread consumer adoption of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Dall-E, public awareness has been growing about potential risks and opportunities for young people’s learning and development. From the first...
Categories: Critical Perspectives, Equity, Featured, Research, Youth Well-BeingA Pedagogy of Play: Supporting Playful Learning in Classrooms and Schools
There’s a growing body of research exploring the relationship between play and learning. From anthropology to cognitive science to evolutionary biology, evidence shows that play offers powerful opportunities for children’s cognitive, social,...
Categories: Connected Learning, Featured, New Trends, ResearchA Holistic College and Career Readiness Practice
“Bresee helps the youth and those who are most disadvantaged. Serving Koreatown, a primarily Hispanic community, and advocate for the need of bringing peace to our community. By focusing on the youth,...
Categories: Connected Learning, Educational Practice, Equity, Featured, Research, Youth Well-BeingThe 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-BeingWhen Learning is Irresistible: 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-Being
