Resources

Parenting in the digital age: How parents address equity through discourses, practices and imaginaries

Presentor: Alicia Blum-Ross
Event: Parenting in the digital age: How parents address equity through discourses, practices and imaginaries - 06/12/2015

Panel co-organized by Alicia Blum-Ross at the Digital Media and Learning Conference, June 2015

This panel focuses specifically on the role of parents and guardians, contributing to a relatively small body of academic work on the ways in which families’ support for young people helps bridge opportunity gaps. The discussants explore the ways in which parents and children imagine and negotiate the opportunities and potential risks embedded in digital media practices.

Children’s rights in the digital age

Presentor: Sonia Livingstone
Event: Children’s rights in the digital age - 02/11/2015

Are children’s rights enhanced or undermined by access to the internet? Charters and manifestos for the digital age are proliferating, but where do children fit in? Sonia Livingstone addresses this and other concerns in this public lecture at the LSE.

NetworkEDGE 25 February 2015 – Sonia Livingstone on developing social media literacy

Presentor: Sonia Livingstone
Event: NetworkEDGE seminar - 02/25/2015

Drawing on cross-national interviews and informed by the tradition of research on media literacy, Sonia Livingstone discusses the idea of social media literacy. The empirical material reveals a social developmental pathway by which children learn to interpret and engage with the technological and textual affordances and social dimensions of SNSs in determining what is risky and why. In addition, their changing orientation to social networking online (and offline) appears to be shaped by their changing peer and parental relations, and has implications for their perceptions of risk of harm.

Beyond the ivory tower: how to bridge digital media and learning research with action & design projects

Presentor: Alicia Blum-Ross
Event: Beyond the ivory tower: how to bridge digital media and learning research with action & design projects - 04/21/2015

Two webinars facilitated by Alicia Blum-Ross, May 2015 [videos here and here] In these webinars, Alicia Blum-Ross and scholars from the Digital Media and Learning community explore the practicalities of initiating and implementing participatory and community-based research. They discuss both the benefits and the challenges that working in collaboration with organizations and individuals brings to […]

Managing your child’s digital footprint

Presentor: Alicia Blum-Ross
Event: Managing your child's digital footprint - 06/01/2015

Panel discussion with Alicia Blum-Ross at BritMums Live blogging conference, June 2015 Alicia Blum-Ross participates in this discussion, focussed on exploring the digital legacy we are creating for our children. It includes how data is being is and can be used, as well as examines the fine line between sharing publicly and protecting privacy. Managing […]

Sports Games: Reading, Writing, & Statistics

Presentor: Jane Canner, Mary Schearer, Nicole Guagliardi, Benjamin Motz, Crystle Martin
Event: Games + Learning + Society 2013 - 6/13/2013

Assessing the Common Core State Standards in Reading With The Sports Network 2 Classroom, Inc. (CI) developed and piloted an 8th grade learning game targeting the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in Reading. CI built on 20 years experience using workplace simulations to teach literacy, and developed The Sports Network 2 (TSN-2), leveraging advances in […]

Syncretic Approaches to Learning: Leveraging New Media and Youths’ Repertoires of Practice

Presentor: Kris Gutierrez, Bill Penuel, Lisa Schwartz, and Adam York
Event: DML2013 - 03/15/2013

There is a growing disconnect between the interests and everyday practices of our nation’s youth and formal schooling’s approaches to engaging youth in rigorous, meaningful and relevant learning.  In particular, despite the significance of youth practices with digital media, this activity remains largely outside of academic environments. Of concern, there are social and cognitive, as […]

Beyond the classroom: Learning in online communities.

Presentor: Matt Rafalow, Crystle Martin, Shree Durga, and Amanda Ochsner
Event: DML2013 - 03/16/2013

Online communities offer a rich and complex arena for interaction and learning. Participants are bound together through shared interests and activities, making these ideal contexts to examine dimensions of connected learning at work. These communities allow people to come together to develop knowledge and skills, both within the boundary of the activity and beyond, providing […]

2012 John Seely Brown Symposium on Technology and Society at the University of Michigan School of Information

Presentor: Mimi Ito
Event: JSB Symposium -

Cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito was the featured speaker at the 2012 John Seely Brown Symposium on Technology and Society at the University of Michigan School of Information. In her talk, she described “connected learning” environments that effectively support what JSB has called “entrepreneurial learning,” and considered some of the new kinds of learning pathways and relationships that can make these forms of learning scalable and accessible.

A Dive Into Connected Learning

Presentor: Mimi Ito, S. Craig Watkins, and Katie Salen
Event: Alliance for Excellent Education Webinar - May 29, 2013

This webinar focused on “connected learning,” which is a framework that draws on the power of technology to link young people’s interests, social networks, and academic achievement. Four experts—Mimi Ito, Craig Watkins,Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, and Katie Salen—discussed the research, design, and implementation of connected learning.