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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....
Teacher Voices For Connected Learning
By: Justin Reich Media: Education Week Date: March 11, 2014 Link: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/edtechresearcher/2014/03/teacher_voices_for_connected_learning.html One of the central challenges of advancing progressive, technology-mediated practices is helping teachers develop a vision of what change...
This film examines a fundamental human experience and key component of connected learning, 'play,' and explores whether it has been underestimated and whether, as a state of being, it holds answers for...
CL: Everyone, Everywhere, Anytime
This film examines the overflowing abundance of knowledge, expertise, and social connectivity in the networked age and the power of bringing people together who want to learn together through the internet and...
This film examines how creativity, shunned in the industrial age approach to schooling, is essential to learners in a networked society and a critical element of connected learning. We commissioned filmmaker Nic...
Connected learning is when you're pursuing expertise around something you care deeply about, and you're supported by friends & institutions who share this common passion that is tuned to the demands and...
Mimi Ito on Connected Learning, Children, and Digital Media
Cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito emphasizes the need to put aside prejudices against new media in order to harness their potential as learning tools. Rather than viewing new media as inherently hostile to...
CL: Hands-On, Learner-Focused, Life-Long
This film introduces the story of connected learning, the outcome of a six-year research effort supported by the MacArthur Foundation into how learning, education, and schooling could be reimagined for a networked...
Connected Learning: Real-World Engagement
This film examines the critical role of curiosity and engagement for today's youth and in connected learning, the outcome of a six-year research effort supported by the MacArthur Foundation into how learning,...
Webinar: A Dive Into Connected Learning
EVENT: Alliance for Excellent Education Webinar on Connected Learning DATE: May 29, 2013 Educators and researchers across the country are focusing on the best ways to engage students in learning...
The Powerful Combination of Interests and Peer Culture
By: Rachel Cody Pfister Published: April 5, 2014 The connected learning model emphasizes the importance of peer culture and interests in fueling members’ participation and learning in the rich activities and opportunities these communities...
The Hive Chicago Learning Network is a thriving community of youth-serving organization committed to connected learning for teens.
Day[9]TV: Elevating Game-Based Learning and Skill-Building
StarCraft 2 is one of the most popular PC-based real-time strategy games. Developed by Blizzard Entertainment in 1998, the game recently celebrated its 15th anniversary as a franchise. The longevity of the...
Tracking “Interests” in Interest-Driven Learning Communities
By: Ksenia Korobkova Published: February 19, 2014 Why the interest in interests? Learning researchers have long posited that when animated by passion, learning can be rich, relevant and resilient (Hidi, 1990; Renninger,...