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8/09/12
In Pittsburgh, A Modern-Day Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
How gamers, roboticists, technologists, and designers are working alongside educators in Pittsburgh to inspire new kinds of learning in and outside of school. We visit innovators at the city’s regional learning network that focuses on kids and creativity8/08/12
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Kelsey Herron
Maker Spaces in Libraries?
Maker spaces —workshop areas that encourage tinkering and creating—and other interactive community spaces have been popping up in unexpected places.8/07/12
Filed by
Christine Cupaiuolo
PLAYBACK: Learning Inside and Outside the Classroom
S. Craig Watkins implements connected learning principles on a digital media project with high school students; Howard Rheingold talks with Alec Couros about making learning visible; and Caine Monroy turns 10 with a celebration at his DIY cardboard arcade.8/06/12
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Sarah Jackson
YOUmedia Toolkit Now Available
A new toolkit now makes it easier to plan, build and sustain a digital learning lab in your school, library or museum space.7/11/12
YOUmedia Expansions Offer Teens Student-Centered Learning Opportunities with Digital Media
At YOUmedia at the Harold Washington Library in Chicago, kids explore, express and create using digital media, and then hook what they learn there back into the classroom. The idea is spreading. As Heather Chaplin reports, YOUmedia spaces are popping up at community centers, museums and libraries around the country.6/19/12
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Sarah Jackson
After School, New York City Youth Design Technology for a Better World
Young people in grades 6-12 in the New York City area gathered on June 2 to show off their technology and media projects at the 4th annual Emoti-Con! Festival, competing for prizes in innovation and potential for social impact.6/06/12
Filed by
Christine Cupaiuolo
Share Your Summer Project: Builders, Tinkerers, Scientists and Digital Media Creators
Have you heard about Project Terra Incognita? A team of sixth-grade girls is going to send an object into the stratosphere and photograph the curvature of the earth. Tell us about your summer project and we’ll tweet the idea.5/22/12
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Sarah Jackson
Every Child A Maker: New Maker Education Initiative Launches
A new nonprofit from the creator of the popular Maker Faires aims to bring opportunities for hands-on learning to schools, museums, and community centers across the country.5/18/12
Filed by
Sarah Jackson
Designing Winning Robots Requires Passion for Learning Outside the Classroom
In a powerful example of connected learning, members of Team Antipodes, an all-girl robotics club, live out their passion for technology, collaboration, and hands-on learning.4/14/12
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Christine Cupaiuolo
“We Came to Play”: Lessons on Connected Learning and Creativity from Caine’s Arcade
The viral success of “Caine’s Arcade” has not only changed the life of a 9-year-old boy with a warehouse-sized imagination—it’s changing the conversation about learning and play.4/09/12
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Christine Cupaiuolo
I, Robot: Master Lego Builders, All-Girl Robotics Teams and Architects of the Future
National Robotics Week gets underway, inspiring students to pursue careers in robotics and related STEM fields. Plus, meet the youngest Lego Master Model Builder; five reasons not to buy gendered Lego’s; and the rise of all-girl robotics teams.3/07/12
Filed by
Christine Cupaiuolo
The History and Future of MOOCs and the New Open Education Week
Around the world, massive open online courses—MOOCs—are drawing thousands of participants. Plus, the first-ever Open Education Week.3/01/12
Q&A: John Seely Brown on Interest-Driven Learning, Mentors and the Importance of Play
As the leading thinkers and do-ers meet this week at the third annual Digital Media and Learning conference, Spotlight talked with DML2012’s keynote presenter John Seely Brown, self-proclaimed “chief of confusion,” and one of the most enlightening thinkers on nearly any topic.2/24/12
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Christine Cupaiuolo
PLAYBACK: What Facebook Reveals and Conceals; Tyler Clementi and Digital Citizenship; Laptop Success and Fail Stories
Tyler Clementi, Dharun Ravi and digital citizenship; new articles from International Journal of Learning & Media; a laptop for every student works well in North Carolina, not so much in Alabama; and a Twitter chat on helping kids learn anytime, anywhere—all in this week’s PLAYBACK.1/27/12
Filed by
Sarah Jackson
