Connected Learning
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How can our young people make the most of today’s abundance of information, creative potential, and social connection?
How ARE our young people making the most of today’s abundance of information, creative potential, and social connection?
Digital Youth Study
• 25 researchers
• 22 case studies
• 800+ Interviews
• 4,146 questionnaires
• 5000+ observation hours
• Fieldwork in 2005-2008
• Follow-up work 2008-present
Ito, et al. 2013
BOTH LEARNING
AND PARTICIPATION/
PRODUCTION
FRIENDSHIP-DRIVEN LEARNING
AND PARTICIPATION
INTEREST-DRIVEN LEARNING
AND PARTICIPATION
How are our young people making LEARNING in the midst of today’s abundance of information, creative potential, and social connection?
The entrepreneurial learner in the information age: John Seeley Brown
• Low floors • High Ceilings • Wide walls
From Duncan and Murnane, Whither Opportunity?
Attention
Participation
Collaboration
Crap Detection Network Know-how
Future Work Skills
2020
Connected learners have unprecedented opportunities for learning, social connection, and production.
What to do?
• Continue investments in infrastructure– but more importantly now, build the human infrastructure
• Support/help/encourage learning institutions to transform themselves
• Recognize learning wherever it happens
• Think ecosystem
• Leverage capacity for cultural and civic engagement
Continue…
Continue…
Continue…
Support Reinvention of (by) Learning Institutions
Invest in Recognition and Credentialing Systems That
Follow the Learner
!
Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Summer of Learning is a collective learning strategy that
involves all sectors working towards a shared vision primarily around the theme
of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) learning –
with citywide collaboration and meaningful partnerships.
Building on the full school day and the full school year, Chicago is incorporating
learning into summer youth programming, launching what could be the largest
citywide summer learning campaign in the nation.
Over 100 youth serving institutions have joined the Chicago Summer of Learning
Invest in a Learning Ecosystem
Leverage the Potential for Cultural and Civic Engagement
How can we help learners make the most of today’s abundance of information, productive capacity, and social connection?
…. stronger connections between learning and the world at large.
Connected Learning