Civic Engagement Category Archives - Connected Learning Alliance https://clalliance.org/blog/category/civic-engagement/ Make Learning Relevant Mon, 28 Aug 2023 15:49:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 A Race-Grounded Career Advising Framework https://clalliance.org/blog/a-race-grounded-career-advising-framework/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 00:15:21 +0000 https://clalliance.org/?p=89944775 The Equitable Futures Innovation Network (EFIN) is a project of the Connected Learning Lab at UC Irvine, focused on fostering career equity in asset-based and identity-affirming ways (Nasir 2012). For the past three years, this project has engaged in research-practice partnerships with career development organizations to surface, describe, and co-develop programmatic approaches and orientations that... Read more »

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]]> Timbuk2 Academy: Navigating Healthy Tensions to Build Partnership With Youth https://clalliance.org/blog/timbuk2-academy-navigating-healthy-tensions-to-build-partnership-with-youth/ Thu, 03 Aug 2023 00:09:17 +0000 https://clalliance.org/?p=89944760 This blog is the fourth of a series of case studies based upon the work of the Equitable Futures Innovation Network. The network brings together scholars and practitioners to identify cutting-edge practices for promoting racial equity within youth career development programs. Career development historically can get reduced into dialogues of how to increase access to... Read more »

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]]> Timbuk2 – Anchored in a Historical Legacy of Care and Spirituality https://clalliance.org/blog/timbuk2-anchored-in-a-historical-legacy-of-care-and-spirituality/ Mon, 15 May 2023 20:39:39 +0000 https://clalliance.org/?p=89944582 “As a child that’s one thing that my parents really instilled in us as children is to know who you are and identify with what is most connected to you…We are Black people. We are of African descent. That is the culture. That’s how I was raised. That’s what I know. That’s who I am.... Read more »

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]]> Proceedings of the 2022 Connected Learning Summit Released https://clalliance.org/blog/proceedings-of-the-2022-connected-learning-summit-released/ Tue, 25 Apr 2023 22:44:35 +0000 https://clalliance.org/?p=89944556 On behalf of the Connected Learning Summit Conference Committee, we are pleased to announce the publication of the Proceedings of the 2022 Connected Learning Summit.  It is our honor to share with you a proceedings that celebrates participatory, playful, and transformative learning. In 2021, the Connected Learning Summit became a fully online event, supporting inclusive,... Read more »

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]]> Mobilizing Teen-Centered Research Findings for Teen-Oriented Storytelling https://clalliance.org/blog/mobilizing-teen-centered-research-findings-for-teen-oriented-storytelling/ Wed, 15 Mar 2023 15:00:47 +0000 https://clalliance.org/?p=89944459 The first and second authors of this blog post were teens in the the middle 2010s and the early 2000s, respectively. We experienced a media landscape vastly different from each other as well as the present day. Media devices were more limited, Internet connections were constrained; user-generated content or social media was barely on the... Read more »

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]]> Call for Proposals Now Open for the Sixth Annual Connected Learning Summit https://clalliance.org/blog/call-for-proposals-now-open-for-the-sixth-annual-connected-learning-summit/ Tue, 07 Mar 2023 17:21:31 +0000 https://clalliance.org/?p=89944265 Call for proposals now open for the sixth annual Connected Learning Summit, which will run entirely online from October 26 to 28, 2023. Submissions open: March 6, 2023 Deadline for submissions: June 23, 2023 Notifications: August 2023 We invite submissions of Research Papers and Showcases that focus on digital technologies for learning, educational and commercial... Read more »

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]]> CLS2022 Accepted Paper – Key Lessons from Informal STEM Learning Programs: Social, Emotional, and Cultural Support Matters! https://clalliance.org/blog/cls2022-accepted-paper-key-lessons-from-informal-stem-learning-programs-social-emotional-and-cultural-support-matters/ Wed, 06 Jul 2022 17:05:11 +0000 https://clalliance.org/?p=89943514 Dr. Maïko Le Lay will present on the work described below at CLS2022, in the session “Connected Approaches to STEAM Learning” (Wednesday 7/27, 9:00am). In our ethnographic research conducted in informal STEM learning programs (ISL) located in predominantly Latinx-serving areas, we found that addressing social, emotional, and cultural elements is crucial to supporting underrepresented minorities.... Read more »

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]]> Equity Is Not Justice: Designing for the Struggle https://clalliance.org/blog/equity-is-not-justice-designing-for-the-struggle/ Mon, 23 May 2022 17:00:35 +0000 https://clalliance.org/?p=89943450 The CLL community, a vital center of creative work in HCI, games, and other kinds of learning technologies for nearly twenty years, has consistently countered illusory promises of the democratizing influence of technology with a real commitment to equity. As CLL Director Dr. Mimi Ito and co-author Dr. Justin Reich write, “apps, software, and devices... Read more »

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]]> New Report Reviews Impact of Asset and Action-Based Approaches to Civic Learning for Minoritized Youth https://clalliance.org/blog/new-report-reviews-impact-of-asset-and-action-based-approaches-to-civic-learning-for-minoritized-youth/ Thu, 17 Feb 2022 16:00:25 +0000 https://clalliance.org/?p=89943362 In their 2018 report, Let’s Go There, Cathy Cohen, Joseph Kahne and Jessica Marshall argue for the importance of “Lived Civics,” an approach to civic education that is centered on “attention to race, identity, and the lived experience of youth.” They review research evidence that youth of color are less likely to have civic learning... Read more »

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]]> “Black boys are losing their lives, but black girls…we’re losing our minds” — Youth Mobilizing Social Media for Healing in the Black Lives Matter Movement https://clalliance.org/blog/black-boys-are-losing-their-lives-but-black-girls-were-losing-our-minds-youth-mobilizing-social-media-for-healing-in-the-black-lives-matter-movement/ Wed, 10 Jun 2020 17:00:44 +0000 https://clalliance.org/?p=89940696 These days, it seems impossible to escape the crushing psychological weight of Black death and dying. Everywhere I turn – my social media accounts, local and international news, attendance at protests – the suffocating grasp of Black death and dying – reinforced and substantiated by anti-Black racism – is always there, waiting to strangle the... Read more »

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