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Who Has The Solutions For Thriving In A Digital World? Young People.
Let me take you inside a conversation at a recent board meeting for Susan Crown Exchange, a national foundation that supports organizations working at the intersection of adolescent well-being and technology. Two...
Categories: Featured, New Trends, Research, Youth Well-BeingThere’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-BeingEducation During COVID: The Voice Of Teachers Across Canada and the US
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic changed the delivery of education across the globe, raising concerns about its long-term consequences on academic achievement and the unequal effect on students from vulnerable...
Categories: Critical Perspectives, Digital Learning, Edtech, Educational Practice, Equity, Featured, 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-BeingThe Grind: My Teen Experience of LGBTQ+ Misrepresentation Within Social Media
Guest post by Eli H. (High School Senior) For anyone interested in how to better connect with teens, here's an idea: stop starting conversations with how “terrible” social media is, and...
Categories: Featured, HX, Youth Well-BeingWhat Does Well-Being Mean to Children in a Digital Age?
Much of the conversation around children’s use of technology focuses on the potential risks and harms of exploring the digital world. While protecting children is an essential focus, it cannot be the...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital Learning, Featured, Research, Youth Well-BeingDr. 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-BeingHX: Centering Youth, Equity, and Human Experience in a Digitally Networked World
We are researchers of youth digital media practices who have worked together for over a decade to support youth in fostering positive forms of technology engagement. More recently, we have reconnected around...
Categories: Equity, Featured, HX, Research, Youth Well-BeingMy [MESA] teacher is really helpful. He is like, I understand you’re in the pandemic, you know, you can turn in stuff late because I know stuff happens in life...he is really...
Categories: Educational Practice, Research, Youth Well-BeingWe are happy to announce a new collection of research papers and opinion pieces on the topic of Algorithmic Rights and Protections of Children, as an MIT Press Works in Progress collection...
Categories: Critical Perspectives, Equity, Featured, New Trends, Youth Well-BeingDoom scrolling: “When you keep scrolling through all of your social media feeds, looking for the most recent upsetting news about the latest catastrophe. The amount of time spent doing this is...
Categories: Critical Perspectives, New Trends, Youth Well-BeingTilted: A Card Game to Better Understand and Communicate About Tilt
Working with youth and games is something that we are passionate about. Our research team (GAMER Group and Digital Youth Lab) have led multiple projects at the UW Information School focused on...
Categories: New Trends, Research, Youth Well-BeingFrom Research to Promising Practices – Building Youth Connections for Wellbeing
About a year ago, the Connected Learning Lab published a report on Youth Connections for Wellbeing, which was developed collaboratively by Mimi Ito, Candice Odgers, and Stephen Schueller. The report discussed how...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Equity, Research, Youth Well-Being
