It’s rare to have the opportunity to work with a stable team of extraordinary scholars over the course of a decade. It’s even rarer for this group of scholars to span a...
Categories: Connected Learning, ResearchBlog Posts
Updating the 5Ws for a New Media Literacy
You probably remember learning in school about the 5Ws: Who, What, Where, When and Why? Those are critical questions for both educators who teach media literacy, and students wanting to evaluate resources....
Category: Digital CitizenshipSpeaker Series on Topics in Connected Learning Open to Public
This interdisciplinary graduate seminar, which is open to the public, aims to immerse students in the field of connected learning through interaction with many of connected learning's most respected scholars. Speakers will...
Categories: Connected Learning, EquityA 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 PracticeThe Joy of Search: Why We All Need to Be Better Searchers…and How to Be Better
I bet you’re probably a skilled online searcher—if you’re reading this, you might even be an expert at online search. But improving your search skills is one of those things that will...
Category: Digital CitizenshipHustle and Grow – Making a Creative Career in the Digital Economy
Over the last six or seven years the three of us were part of the Connected Learning Research Network finding out how young people in the US and the UK were using...
Categories: Equity, ResearchAnnouncing the Call for Proposals for Connected Learning Summit 2020
Call for proposals now open for the third annual Connected Learning Summit. With a unique focus on cross-sector connections and progressive and catalytic innovation, the Connected Learning Summit brings together leading researchers,...
Categories: Connected Learning, ResearchAnnouncing the 10th Anniversary Edition of HOMAGO
I’m delighted to announce the publication of a new Tenth Anniversary edition of Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media -- which came to be...
Category: Connected LearningHighlights 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 LearningFrom Concept to Reality: Announcing the Connected Learning Research Tools Site!
Announcing the new Connected Learning Research tools site, featuring tools and instruments from 10 connected learning studies and projects! We expect this site to be of interest to: University researchers (graduate students,...
Categories: Connected Learning, ResearchToday’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, ResearchWhat’s the Role of the School in Educating Children in a Datafied Society?
Of the many calls on schools, one is that they should teach children about their online privacy and data, so they are ready for the challenges of today’s increasingly datafied society. Such...
Categories: Critical Perspectives, Digital Citizenship, ResearchOpen Invitation to Connect with Experts at the CLS2019 Pre-Conference Day
You may already know that the 2019 Connected Learning Summit is happening this October 3-5, 2019 at UC Irvine, but what you may not know is that there is a pre-conference meet...
Category: Connected Learning“No Permission Necessary”: Bringing Young Activists to the Connected Learning Summit
Stepping in front of over 800,000 people gathered at the March for Our Lives in Washington D.C. (and many more watching via live-stream and on cable news networks), Emma González stood fearlessly...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Connected Learning
