Content tagged "youth"
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Justin Reich’s thread: “The #1 question is ‘how will you support your most struggling students?’”
“A growing body of evidence suggests that online learning works least well for our most vulnerable learners.”
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Podcast and video: Marina Bers, “Coding in Early Childhood: Storytelling or Puzzle Solving?”
Bers describes current research on a pedagogical approach for early childhood computer science education called “Coding as Another Language”.
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Marina Bers, “Coding in Early Childhood: Storytelling or Puzzle Solving?”
Prof. Marina Bers will describe current research on a pedagogical approach for early childhood computer science education called “Coding as Another Language”.
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Just Say No to “Just Say No”: Tensions in Organizational Approaches to Youth and Online Privacy in the Americas
This thesis examines organizational practices in the field of youth online privacy in the Americas. Mariel García-Montes describes harms created by protective, universalist, individualistic approaches that pose youth as conditional citizens, and makes a case for approaches based instead on youth agency, intersectional views of privacy, collective responsibility, and the recognition of youth as subjects of rights today.
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Video and podcast: “The Turn to ‘Tween’: An Age Category and its Cultural Consequences”
How are “tweens” represented in popular culture? And how does this relatively new category deal with race, class, and gender identity?
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The Turn to “Tween”: An Age Category and its Cultural Consequences
How are “tweens” represented in popular culture, including music, television, and YA literature? And how does this relatively new age category intersect with–or elide–issues pertaining to race, class, and gender identity?
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Children’s Civic Engagement in the Scratch Online Community
“By supporting channels for dutiful citizenship by way of policy, design decisions, or changing governance models, designers can create channels that foster dutiful citizenship while connecting with youth interests.”
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Better the Data You Know: Developing Youth Data Literacy in Schools and Informal Learning Environments
We need to support the public — especially youth — in developing data literacy, so that they are equipped to think critically and ethically about data.
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Podcast and liveblog: Sonia Livingstone, “The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age”
LSE’s Sonia Livingstone on how powerful forces of social reproduction result in missed opportunities for many youth in the risk society.
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Sonia Livingstone: “The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age”
Sonia Livingstone will examine how powerful forces of social reproduction result in missed opportunities for many youth in the risk society.
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Video of “Born Digital”, with John Palfrey and Ethan Zuckerman
How the digital generation is different from its analog ancestor and whether they have different notions of privacy, community, and identity.
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From Huelga! to Undocumented and Unafraid!: A Comparative Study of Media Strategies in the Farm Worker Movement of the 1960s and the Immigrant Youth Movement of the 2000s
Rogelio Lopez’s thesis, examining media strategies by emphasizing concrete media practices of movement actors.
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Podcast and Liveblog: “Born Digital” with John Palfrey
John Palfrey on how the digital generation is different from its analog ancestor and whether they have different notions of privacy, community, and identity.
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Podcast: Marcella Szablewicz, “Nostalgia for a Not-So-Distant Youth: Digital Games and Affect in Urban China”
Are games the imagined utopia they are made out to be in these nostalgic accounts or might these affective attachments prove to be a form of “cruel optimism”?
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Nostalgia for a Not-So-Distant Youth: Digital Games and Affect in Urban China
Marcella Szablewicz: “Are games the imagined utopia they are made out to be in these nostalgic accounts or might these affective attachments prove to be a form of what Lauren Berlant has called cruel optimism?”
