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