In addition to our inspiring keynotes, plenaries, and meetups, this year’s Connected Learning Summit features interactive workshops and roundtables offered by Connected Learning Alliance partners. Our partners are research labs, nonprofits, and research-practice collaborations leading the way in designing for a more equitable, participatory, learner-centered ecosystem.
All workshops and roundtables will be offered in interactive and engaging formats via video conference, facilitated by faculty and leaders from partner organizations and labs.. Sessions include sneak peeks & playtests of products in development, discussions of shared problems of practice, and hands-on learning experiences in innovative and equitable research and development approaches.
Don’t miss your chance to engage and learn with fellow leading innovators. Register now! The summit runs October 26-28 as a fully online event in order to welcome attendees worldwide. The event is planned in two separate time zone blocks, keyed to Asia/Australia and US/Europe.
Here’s a rundown of topics and offerings for CLS workshops and roundtables:
Focus on digital media, tools, platforms and games to support creative, youth-driven and playful learning:
- Tell Your Story Through Music (Workshop & Roundtable) with Cecilia Roudabush, June Kinoshita, and Peter Torpey from New Harmony Line
- Designing Sports Based Games for Learning (Workshop) with Marcelo Worsley and Vishesh Kumar from Northwestern University
- Exploring with OctoStudio: A Playful New Way to Support Creative Learning Anytime Anywhere (Workshop) with Rupal Jain, Carolina Rodgheiro, Natalie Rusk, Cecilé Sadler, and Thaís Xisto from the MIT Media Lab and João Adriano Freitas from the Brazil Creative Learning Network
- Bring a Book to Life: Equitable Facilitation Strategies through Tinkering (Workshop), with Ryoko Matsumoto from The Exploratorium/Tinkering Studio
- Mix, Mix, Remix: Harnessing Popular Culture for Cross-Cultural Dialogue (Workshop), with Sangita Shresthova at the University of Southern California
- Why does it have to be a game? (Workshop) with Scot Osterweil from the Learning Games Network
- Scaffolding Computing in the Classroom Through Connection With Children’s Literature (Workshop), with Colby Tofel-Grehl from Utah State University
- Young Adult Video Games and Learning: Insights from Research and Practice in Schools (Workshop), with Jen Scott Curwood, Premeet Sidhu and Marcus Carter from the University of Sydney, Christian Ehret from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Emily Mannard from McGill University
Creating equitable and inclusive spaces for healing and care in games, programs and learning organizations:
- Hacking New Social Futures: Speculative Dream Sprints as Sites for Futurecasting (Roundtable), with Arturo Cortez, Jade Cortez-Vargas, Humberto Echevarria-Rios, Alexis Hunter, José R. Lizárraga, Ashieda McKoy, and Scott Perkins from the University of Colorado Boulder, Edward Rivero from the University of California, Berkeley, and Godwin Amouzou, Isabella Herrera, and Mariel Reyes Galvez from the LiTT Lab at the University of Pennsylvania
- 10% of Youth Are Disabled; Do You Know How To Include Them? (Roundtable), with Stacy Branham from the University of California, Irvine
- A race-grounded approach to holistic youth career development: a tool for reflection and inspiration (Roundtable), with Miguel N. Abad, Janiece Mackey, Mimi Ito, and Elizabeth Mendoza from the Connected Learning Lab at the University of California, Irvine
- Celebrating Neurodiversity Through the Design of Connected Technologies (Workshop), with LouAnne Boyd from Chapman University, Mimi Ito from the Connected Learning Lab at University of California, Irvine, Joi Ito from the Chiba Institute of Technology, and Annuska Zolyomi from the IDEA Lab at University of Washington Bothell
- Measuring Impact on Teenage Mental Health Entrepreneurship (Roundtable), with Viviana Blumberg, David Ball, Maegan Lillis from SecondMuse/Headstream
- Unveiling Digital Realities: Exploring the Impact of Racially Traumatizing Content of Black Youth’s Education and Mental Health (Roundtable) with Amanda Leroy from the University of Rochester, Alexis Hunter and Tiera Tanksley from the University of Colorado Boulder
Engaging youth in research, design, and development
- What does “age appropriate” mean to and for children? (Roundtable), with Sara Grimes from the University of Toronto, Allisyn Levy from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, Amanda Lenhart and Betsy Bozdech from Common Sense Media, and Darshana Jayemanne from Abertay University
- Teens rethinking their tech habits: Research and practice with youth voice at the center (Workshop), with Destinee Ramos and Emily Weinstein from the Center for Digital Thriving, Harvard Graduate School of Education
- Youth Media Humanizing Collegial Pedagogies: Students and Teachers Co-creating with Teach YR Media (Roundtable), with Monica Clark and Nana Boateng from YR Media, and Cherise McBride from Stanford University Impact Labs & Stanford University History Education Group
- Futures Visioning with Youth Media: A Manifesto Toolkit, Curriculum and Community (Workshop), with Monica Clark, Lauren Rascoe, and Nana Boateng from YR Media, and Marielle Burt from Stanford University
- Co-Designing the Digital Future with Kids, for Kids (Roundtable) with Medha Tare from the, Joan Ganz Cooney Center; Azi Jamalian from The GIANT Room; Jason Yip from the University of Washington, KidsTeam UW; Andres Bustamante from the University of California, Irvine; Susana Beltrán-Grimm from Purdue University; Jimmeka Anderson from NAMLE and Black Girls Film Camp
- Bringing a human-computer interaction perspective to connected learning (Roundtable), with Katie Davis and Rotem Landesman from the University of Washington
Building equitable partnerships and collaborations between designers, practitioners, developers and researchers
- Colleges, companies, and community organizations collaborating to elevate all (Roundtable), with Amon Millner from Olin College of Engineering, Jason Coleman from Project SYNCERE, and Kayla DesPortes from NYU
- An Introduction to Design-Based Implementation Research for Connected Learning Environments (Workshop), with Bill Penuel from the University of Colorado Boulder, and June Ahn and Kylie Peppler from the University of California, Irvine
Fueling the connected learning movement through networks and ecosystems
- How Learning Festivals Catalyze Innovation and Community (Workshop), with Lauren Ziegler and Yu-Ling Cheng from Remake Learning
- Strategies for Making Connections To and From OST Experiences and Across Learners’ Lives (Roundtable), with Maggie Dahn, Mimi Ito, and Kylie Peppler from the University of California, Irvine
- Connected Wellbeing: Youth powered wellbeing in a digitally connected world (Roundtable), with Colin Angevine from the Connected Wellbeing Initiative
- Remotely Connecting Global Youth Researchers: Important Learnings and Troubling Tensions (Workshop), with Dane Stickney & Ben Kirshner from the University of Colorado Denver and Transformative Student Voice, Dr. Konstantinos Sipitanos from the University of Crete, and Milahd Makooi from JeffCo Public Schools, Arvada, Colorado.
- Sparking and Sustaining Connected Learning through Libraries: Insights and Questions (Roundtable), with Kimberly Hirsh and Amanda Wortman from the Connected Learning Lab, University of California, Irvine, Linda Braun from The LEO Group, Mega Subramaniam from the University of Maryland College of Information Studies, Katie Davis from the University of Washington Information School, and Leah Larson from the University of Minnesota Extension
- Focus on ICT and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (Roundtable), with Dr. Jonghwi Park from the United Nations University, Lim Cher Ping from The Education University of Hong Kong, Dr. Nadya Shaznay Patel from the Singapore Institute of Technology, and Dr. Sawaros Thanapornsangsuth from the School of Environment and Society at Tokyo Institute of Technology
Navigating AI in connected learning, digital media and schools
- AI Ethics in Education (Roundtable), with Anna Keune and Santiago Hurtado from the Technical University of Munich
- Glitching the System: Disrupting Anti-Black AI through Abolitionist Tech Design with Black Youth (Roundtable), with Tiera Tanksley from the University of Colorado, Boulder
- Promoting Algorithmic Justice in K-12 Education: Designing and Auditing Machine Learning-Powered Applications (Workshop), with Yasmin Kafai and Luis Morales-Navarro from the University of Pennsylvania
Check out our schedule and register today!
