Resources - Connected Learning Alliance

Connected Learning Guide

jpond — Tue, 14 May 2019 23:03:07 +0000

Connected learning provides a foundation for much of Chicago Learning Exchange‘s (CLX) work and is based on more than a decade of research into the factors that lead to deeper engagement in youth, regardless of their socio-economic background. CLX has created a Connected Learning Guide that translates that research into an easy-to-use reference for educators,... Read more »

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Reclaiming Digital Futures Report

jpond — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 17:57:54 +0000

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 youth-serving organizations need to focus decision making to achieve meaningful and impactful success in digital learning. For each strategic area, the toolkit offers guiding perspectives... Read more »

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Brokering Youth Pathways: A Toolkit for Connecting Youth to Future Opportunity

jpond — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 16:00:29 +0000

The Brokering Youth Pathways toolkit shares ways that various out-of-school educators and professionals have approached the challenge of brokering. The toolkit provides a framework, practice briefs, and reports that focus on a range of issues and challenges related to connecting youth to opportunity. The Brokering Youth Pathways toolkit is the result of two years of collaborative... Read more »

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Connected Learning Explained

jpond — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 22:55:22 +0000

Mimi Ito, director of the Connected Learning Lab at UC Irvine, shares examples of connected learning from her own life and explains the importance of combining personal interests, supportive relationships, and opportunities in order to maximize learning. Presentation recorded at the Designing 2030 summit held by the Concord Consortium in May 2018.

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Digital Civics Toolkit

jpond — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 01:43:00 +0000

The Digital Civics Toolkit is a collection of resources for educators to support youth to explore, recognize, and take seriously the civic potentials of digital life. The Toolkit draws on the research and work of the MacArthur Research Network on Youth and Participatory Politics (YPP). The Toolkit explores a range of civic opportunities and dilemmas via 5 modules focused... Read more »

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Evaluating Your Connected Learning Programs and Spaces Video Series

jpond — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 16:32:21 +0000

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 about your programs beyond counting turnstile clicks? Join Josie Chang-Order and Tim Podkul, research team members from the Capturing Connected Learning in Libraries (CCLL) project,... Read more »

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Lifelong Kindergarten: Q&A with Mitch Resnick

jpond — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 14:00:30 +0000

Mimi Ito, director of the Connected Learning Lab at UC Irvine, interviews Mitch Resnick, the director of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab, about his new book, “Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers and Play.” Mimi Ito is a cultural anthropologist, studying youth new media practices in the U.S. and... Read more »

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The Art of Screen Time: Q&A with Anya Kamenetz

jpond — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 14:00:30 +0000

Mimi Ito, director of the Connected Learning Lab at UC Irvine, interviews Anya Kamenetz about her latest book, “The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life.” Mimi Ito is a cultural anthropologist, studying youth new media practices in the U.S. and Japan. She oversees research activities of the... Read more »

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Podcast: Sonia Livingstone

Anh Nguyen — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 08:00:00 +0000

Sonia Livingstone is a full professor in the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science. She is seconded to Microsoft Social Research for fall 2013 as well as being a faculty fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Her talk will be based on her current book project, “The... Read more »

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Connected Youth and Digital Futures

Anh Nguyen — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 08:00:00 +0000

On 22 June 2016, the Department of Media and Communications hosted an event to launch a new book series, Connected Youth and Digital Futures with New York University Press. The first two volumes in the series are By any Media Necessary: The new youth activism by Henry Jenkins and his collaborators and The Class: Living and learning in the digital... Read more »

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