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.
Mentoring is powerful — this has always been true – but it’s more critical today because young people need more guidance and preparation to navigate the demands and complexity of...
This artwork was created as part of the Connected Learning Alliance’s Make Learning Relevant campaign. Connected learning leverages the tools and networked opportunities of the digital age to provide more...
This artwork was created as part of the Connected Learning Alliance’s Make Learning Relevant campaign. The Connected Learning Alliance (CLA) envisions a world where all young people have equitable access...
This artwork was created as part of the Connected Learning Alliance’s Make Learning Relevant campaign. Incorporating student interests in the classroom and making the subjects they study relevant are keys...
This artwork was created as part of the Connected Learning Alliance’s Make Learning Relevant campaign. We are living in a historical moment of transformation and realignment in the creation and...
This artwork was created as part of the Connected Learning Alliance’s Make Learning Relevant campaign. Digital media adoption among American youth is near-ubiquitous. Rather than making them learn in “put...
This artwork was created as part of the Connected Learning Alliance’s Make Learning Relevant campaign. Connected Learning inspires us to re-think what is possible in education. How to leverage the...
This artwork was created as part of the Connected Learning Alliance’s Make Learning Relevant campaign. Students are often forced to look outside the classroom to find and explore their interests....
This artwork was created as part of the Connected Learning Alliance’s Make Learning Relevant campaign. Sam Dyson is the director of the Hive Chicago Learning Network, a MacArthur-funded initiative operated...
This artwork was created as part of the Connected Learning Alliance’s Make Learning Relevant campaign. Hands-on, production-centered, entrepreneurial activity is at the core of Connected Learning, in anticipation of what...
This artwork was created as part of the Connected Learning Alliance’s Make Learning Relevant campaign. Learning doesn’t just happen in the classroom. Kids are learning all the time in everything...
This artwork was created as part of the Connected Learning Alliance’s Make Learning Relevant campaign. Kris Gutiérrez is a professor of Literacy and Learning Sciences at the University of Colorado...
