This is an archive of resources related to connected learning that was developed as part of the MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Media and Learning Initiative and the Connected Learning Alliance between 2012 and 2025. For more recent resources, visit our home page, the Connected Learning Summit, or the Connected Learning Lab.
New toolkit, and associated report, shares effective practices for equitable, youth-centered digital learning. Rather than one silver bullet, this toolkit offers a range of approaches in five strategic areas where...
Are you under pressure to show outcomes from your youth library programs, but don’t know where to begin? Do you want to learn methods to capture qualitative and quantitative data...
High school English teacher Scott Glass of Glenbrook South in the suburbs of Chicago had always been interested in art and creating, but didn’t do a lot of it himself...
Jesse Stommel, executive director of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies at the University of Mary Washington and director of the Hybrid Pedagogy and Digital Pedagogy Lab, recalls starring...
Sofya Zeylikman is both a connected student and a connected educator, a senior studying furniture design at Rhode Island School of Design while leading workshops with kids “teaching them about...
Toymaking (creating “tools for the imagination”) is, for Cas Holman, all about learning. “Play and a playful pedagogy are so relevant to students. We don’t know what future jobs are...
One important aspect of learning that Makerspaces usually seem to deal with more effectively than schools is the importance of failure in learning – anyone who begins to tinker with...
Paola Ricaurte Quijano, Professor and researcher in the School of Education, Social Sciences and Humanities ITESM at University Tecnológico, Monterrey, Mexico – a huge private university with 90,000 students at...
Darren Kuropatwa, director of learning for Hanover School Division in Manitoba, Canada, remembers how he was first drawn the pedagogical potential of the Internet. When he noticed that the professional...
The late Doug Engelbart, who invented most of the elements of personal, connected computing as we now know them – the mouse, hypertext, on-screen editing, multimedia, networked knowledge work, and...
A project doesn’t have to be digital to embody connected learning principles: for example, the Lowline Project on the Lower East Side of Manhattan (“the world’s first underground park”), combines...
Pennsylvania high school English teacher Brianna Crowley’s path to becoming a connected educator started with a search for connection: “About five years ago, I started feeling restless. I felt as...
Some connected educators use wikis or mobile phones. Laura Ritchie, a Reader in Pedagogy at University of Chichester, uses cellos. This year, she’s running the ninth version of “Cello Weekend.”...
Traditional geographic community-based places of learning and knowledge are now also growing into places of learning and knowing through making. If you are interested in adding a makerspace to your...
Kim Jaxon, Assistant Professor of Composition and Literacy in the English Department at Chico State University, calls herself a “big geek.” I call her a connected educator for whom the...