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Resources that catalogue best practices, techniques, etc that how to work with youth or other specific target groups. Participant management, digital citizenship, best practices, etc

What does learning in the 21st Century look like?

Vision and Principles

• Reimagining Learning in the 21st Century: A Fresh Perspective
• 21st Century Learning, Youth Networks, and Digital Media
• Democratizing Learning Innovation
• Making, Tinkering, and Remixing in Learning Innovation
• Video Games, Learning, and Literacy
• Digital Youth Culture, Social Learning, and New Media
• Learning with Social and Mobile Media: The Positive Potential of Peer Pressure and Messing Around Online

Strategies and Practices

Connected Learning
"An approach to education that advocates for broadened access to learning that is socially embedded, interest-driven, and oriented toward educational, economic, or political opportunity." More on Connected Learning.

Hive Learning Networks
The Hive Learning Network, a Mozilla project, founded through The MacArthur Foundation’s digital media and learning initiative is a collaborative network of civic and cultural organizations that co-create learning experiences that help youth explore their own interests while tapping the insights and mentoring of the city’s leading scientists, designers, and artists. More on Hive Learning Networks.

Learning Networks in Action

• Hive NYC Learning Network
• Hive Chicago Learning Network
• Hive Toronto Learning Network
• Hive Pittsburgh Learning Network

Projects in Action

A sample list of projects, large and small, rooted in these strategies and practices:

Kids+Creativity: Building a Regional Learning Network ~A tour of Pittsburgh's Kids+Creativity Learning Network, with stops along the way in some of the schools, museums, libraries, community centers, research institutions, and supporting agencies that make up the network.

Learning, Playing, Designing: Video Games in School ~Quest to Learn is a public school in New York City that uses video game-based learning models as the basis of the curriculum.

TransformED, a digital playground for teachers, provides a new approach to professional development for teachers that incorporates educational applications of digital media and technology, collaborative design thinking practices, and training workshops for novices and experts, all within an environment designed to energize and inspire teachers to imagine what's possible for the 21st century classroom.

The KickFlip Project ~Hive NYC members, City Lore and Reel Works team up for a summer project for skaters interested in digital filmmaking. Youth skaters learned filmmaking skills from their peers, the Reel Works teen filmmakers and produced short films on the NYC skateboarding scene.

Emoti-Con! NYC is an annual interactive conference jointly organized by Hive NYC members, MOUSE, Global Kids, The New York Public Library, and Parsons The New School for Design. The day-long event brings together youth participants from all Hive NYC member organizations to share, learn and showcase their technology and media projects.

Off the Wall Learning ~Institute of Play, in partnership with Hive NYC, develop a fresh, highly visual approach to sharing challenge-based learning activities that puts mentors/educators and youth on the same level.

Research

Digital Media and Learning Research Hub
Connected Learning Research Network