Today’s digital and online media demand an approach to learning keyed to a networked and interconnected world. The growth of online communities, social and online media, open educational resources, ubiquitous...
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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.
Today’s digital and online media demand an approach to learning keyed to a networked and interconnected world. The growth of online communities, social and online media, open educational resources, ubiquitous...
The tenth-anniversary edition of a foundational text in digital media and learning, examining new media practices that range from podcasting to online romantic breakups. Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking...
Rockwood Library is a branch of Multnomah County Library in Oregon. In 2016, the library created a makerspace for teens with funding from two local sources, the Mt. Hood Cable...
This report synthesizes research and programs centered on youth occupational identity—their vision of their future selves in the workforce, what they like to do, what they believe they are skilled...
Anythink has been supporting connected learning programming in its Thornton, Colorado, library since 2012. The brightly lit library includes The Studio for young people to hang out, explore new digital...
How black and Latino youth learn, create, and collaborate online The Digital Edge examines how the digital and social-media lives of low-income youth, especially youth of color, have evolved amidst...
How online affinity networks expand learning and opportunity for young people Boyband One Direction fanfiction writers, gamers who solve math problems together, Harry Potter fans who knit for a cause....
Conventional wisdom about young people’s use of digital technology often equates generational identity with technology identity: today’s teens seem constantly plugged in to video games, social networks sites, and text...
To rigorously consider the impact of new media on the political and civic behavior of young people, The MacArthur Research Network on Youth and Participatory Politics (YPP) developed and fielded...
New media have come to play a prominent role in civic and political life. Social network sites, web sites and text increasingly serve as both a conduit for political information...
Although they may disavow politics as such, civic-minded young people use every means and media at their disposal to carry out the basic tasks of citizenship. Through a mix of...
This report explores how civic youth use Facebook, Twitter, and other online mechanisms to help them address issues that matter in their communities and in the world. Drawing primarily on...
Digital media and technology have become culturally and economically powerful parts of contemporary middle-class American childhoods. Immersed in various forms of digital media as well as mobile and Web-based technologies,...
This report summarizes the results of an ambitious three-year ethnographic study, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, into how young people are living and learning with...
