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Make Learning Relevant: Production-Centered
This artwork was created as part of the Connected Learning Alliance's Make Learning Relevant campaign. Production-Centered is one of the three "Design Principles" of Connected Learning along with Openly Networked and Shared...
Make Learning Relevant: Re-think Education
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 tools of...
Make Learning Relevant: Antero Garcia
Antero Garcia - Assistant Professor in the English department at Colorado State University, and former public high school in South Central Los Angeles - paints us a picture of teachers' roles within...
Make Learning Relevant: Interest-Powered
This artwork was created as part of the Connected Learning Alliance's Make Learning Relevant campaign. Interest-Powered is one of the three "Learning Principles" of Connected Learning along with Peer-Supported and Academically Oriented....
Make Learning Relevant: The Core Question
This artwork was created as part of the Connected Learning Alliance's Make Learning Relevant campaign. Connie Yowell is the Director of Education for U.S. Programs at the MacArthur Foundation, which supports the...
Make Learning Relevant: Cathy Davidson
Cathy Davidson - Innovation & Technology scholar, author, and soon-to-be head of The Futures Initiative for the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) - shares why education needs...
Make Learning Relevant: Test-Taking Factory
This artwork was created as part of the Connected Learning Alliance's Make Learning Relevant campaign. Connected Learning engages students, helping them identify and pursue connections between what they're learning in school and...
Make Learning Relevant: Connie Yowell
Connie Yowell, the U.S. Programs Director of Education for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, explains what it will take to build a learning approach for our times, one that's...
WWE Fandom: Developing Academic and Life Skills Through Creative Production
WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) is the largest professional wrestling company in the world, boasting fans in more than 145 countries. The television shows reach more than 13 million viewers in U.S. alone,...
Chicago City of Learning: Peer-Supported, Social Connection
This summer in Chicago, young people will be able to turn their interests into opportunities. Learn more about Chicago City of Learning at explorechi.org.
Chicago City of Learning: An Introduction
This summer in Chicago, young people will be able to turn their interests into opportunities. Learn more about Chicago City of Learning at explorechi.org.
Boss Level at Quest to Learn: Connected Learning in a Public School
Quest2Learn is a pioneering public school in New York City that offers a promising new model for student engagement. Designed from the ground up by a team of teachers and game designers, and...
The Harry Potter Alliance: Connecting Fan Interests and Civic Action
The Harry Potter Alliance (HPA) is a nonprofit organization, established in 2005 by activist Andrew Slack. Inspired by the student activist organization “Dumbledore’s Army” in the Harry Potter narratives, the HPA uses parallels from...
YOUmedia at the Harold Washington Library: Creating Pathways from Interests to Opportunities
YOUmedia is a teen learning space in various libraries, museums, and afterschool spaces throughout the country. This Case Study focuses on the flagship in the Chicago Public Library’s downtown Harold Washington Library Center....
Hive Fashion: Translating Interest Into Career Opportunity
Hive Fashion is a MacArthur-funded program for members of the Hive Learning Networks, a group of cultural and civic institutions -- libraries, museums, community-based organizations -- that work together to construct and...