"Warmer temperatures also lead to more kids being absent from school, especially low-income students.” As climate changes fuels hotter temperatures, kids are learning less https://lnkd.in/gD_7vREZ #ClimateChange #EducationalEquity #EquityInEducation
Connected Learning Lab
Research Services
Irvine, CA 1,613 followers
We research, design, & mobilize learning technologies in equitable, innovative, and learner-centered ways.
About us
The Connected Learning Lab (CLL) is an Organized Research (ORU) at the University of California, Irvine. The CLL is dedicated to studying and mobilizing learning technologies in equitable, innovative, and learner-centered ways. The CLL’s focus is defined by the “connected” in connected learning, which refers to both social relationships and emerging digital and networked technologies. Connected learning is when someone is pursuing a personal interest with the support of peers, mentors and caring adults, and in ways that open up opportunities for them.
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https://connectedlearning.uci.edu/
External link for Connected Learning Lab
- Industry
- Research Services
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Irvine, CA
- Type
- Educational
- Founded
- 2018
- Specialties
- education research, game-based learning, educational equity, educational technology, connected wellbeing, connected learning, and digital wellbeing
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Connected Learning Lab, University of California, Irvine
4100 Calit2 Building
Irvine, CA 92697-2800, US
Employees at Connected Learning Lab
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“The result is a generation of resilient but resentful young people who feel they should not be solely responsible for their safety. They want better support and resources from governments, authorities, tech companies and their families.” ‘Help! I’m overwhelmed!’ Hundreds of girls say they face sexual harassment online. This is what they want to change https://lnkd.in/gB7rWrtp #OnlineSafety #YouthVoice
Hundreds of girls tell CNN they feel unsafe online but have no one to turn to for help. This is what they want to change
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Connected Learning Lab reposted this
NEW Work-in-Progress Essay Collection Release - Youth Wellbeing in a Technology-Rich World - edited by Mizuko Ito (Connected Learning Lab) and Carrie James (Center for Digital Thriving) #YouthWellbeingTech Now open for public review and comments from colleagues and stakeholders who are invested in youth wellbeing as they grow up with smartphones, social media, gaming spaces, and other digital technologies. You can read the essays here: https://lnkd.in/gNCgcphK This essay collection came together as part of a movement to bolster young people’s wellbeing in a technology-rich world. Insights across the collection make the case for four necessary frame shifts around tech and youth wellbeing: 1. From Technological Determinism to Social Shaping of Technology 2. From Individual Screen Time to Sociotechnical Drivers of Wellbeing 3. From One-Size-Fits-All to Tailored, Asset-Based Solutions 4. From Top-Down to Community-Driven, Participatory Design Please feel free to share with scholars, designers, educators and other practitioners, and policy makers who are passionate about #DigitalWellbeing and #YouthMentalHealth 🌷 The review period ends September 30, 2024.
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"Underlying the report findings and recommendations is the recognition that for public libraries, building connected learning-based teen services means re-imagining offerings to reflect the culture and needs of diverse teens and their communities, going beyond the more traditional canon libraries have historically represented.” New CLA Blog - Fostering Teen Engagement in Public Libraries Through Connected Learning: New Reports Released https://lnkd.in/gQyNJc7U #ConnectedLearningThroughLibraries
East Providence (RI) Public Library: Welcoming Teens in Library Spaces - Connected Learning Alliance
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“We serve LGBTQ youth who typically have no support network and feel really isolated and lonely. They find us on social media mostly. …And they really report that it helps them… after one month in the program there’s 88 percent [saying] they’ve been helped and 84 percent [reporting that they] feel less lonely.” - Valerie Grison-Alsop, Founder and Executive Director of Give Us The Floor Watch the full recording from the #ConnectedWellbeing Symposium held this February 7: https://lnkd.in/gTnK8EvP #LGBTQ #LoveIsLove #MentalHealthMatters
Youth-Powered Wellbeing in a Digitally-Connected World: Highlights from the Connected Wellbeing Symposium - Connected Learning Alliance
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Connected Learning Lab reposted this
An amazing set of resources on youth-wellbeing in a tech-rich world is available now. This collection is in a public-review and comment period. Read, engage, weigh in! Big props to Carrie James and Mizuko Ito for this contribution to our ecosystem, as well as your thoughtful and transparent process. Katya Hancock Sierra Malia F. Pivotal Ventures Susan Crown Exchange Emily Weinstein Beck Tench Amber Kamilah #YoungFutures
A must read collection of essays that elevate both the benefits and challenges that tech presents for the overall wellbeing of teens. Am always a big fan of a "frame shift" if it means we thoughtfully dismantle assumptions. Deep gratitude for Carrie James and Mizuko Ito for leading this effort. Young Futures Org Katya Hancock Sierra Malia F. https://lnkd.in/djs_tEyJ
New Essay Collection Now Online for Public Comment – Youth Wellbeing in a Technology-Rich World - Connected Learning Alliance
https://clalliance.org
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“There’s this perception that parents just give their kids a phone to shut them up and let them get on with it. In our research, we didn't really see that, we saw parents engaging and using technology with their children and it being something they talk about together,” “Some children have lots of social interaction and don't need digital connections, whereas others have very busy parents. There is interesting research that says for those children, interacting on the phone can compensate – not all the way – but it can help quite a lot,” - Sonia Livingstone, Professor of Social Psychology at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) https://lnkd.in/grUHNbpP #DigitalMentalHealth #DigitalWellbeing #YouthWellbeing
What does “good” look like for young children’s digital lives? | LSE Research
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Connected Learning Lab reposted this
Connected Learning Alliance at UC Irvine recently released two reports offering valuable insights and recommendations for public #libraries striving to foster teen engagement through connected learning approaches. The reports are the culmination of a three-year project funded by an IMLS. Read the reports ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eUYCVCtB Learn more about the #IMLSgrant ➡️ https://lnkd.in/exqd-nKC
Fostering Teen Engagement in Public Libraries Through Connected Learning: New Reports Released - Connected Learning Alliance
https://clalliance.org
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In Access Is Capture, Roderic N. Crooks investigates how edtech functions in Los Angeles public schools that exclusively serve Latinx and Black communities. ”In the United States, access to technology as an engine of social, political, economic, and racial equality appears against the backdrop of a number of endemic, ubiquitous failures: the failure of Black and brown people to use the proper kinds of computers in appropriate and productive ways; the failure of working-class people to continually cultivate marketable skills; the failure of public schools to confer middle-class status on their racially segregated student bodies. These failures, each a deeply moral indictment, haunt empirical social science and constrain the public imagination. The failures that access to technology is supposed to fix are as varied and changeable as the uneven social terrain produced by racial inequality in the United States and its attendant economic, social, political, and cultural consequences. To fixate on access is a way to take race and other socially consequential forms of difference out of the frame, and to implicitly explain away inequality among people by looking at the distribution of things: computers, routers, cables, software packages, tutorial videos.” Read more of the excerpt in new CLA blog: https://lnkd.in/gur4zV7u Pre-order the book here: https://lnkd.in/gB8hy7Q9 #EdTech #RacialEquity
Roderic Crooks’ Access Is Capture: How Edtech Reproduces Racial Inequality - Connected Learning Alliance
https://clalliance.org
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“We can't improve [teen’s] mental health if we treat youth as powerless victims whose social media use needs to be controlled by others. Improving youth mental health means giving youth power, purpose, support and the ability to influence their own futures.” Empowering Youth: Agency and Voice Are Key to Mental Health and Online Safety➡️ https://lnkd.in/gtkdFpk6 #MentalHealthMatters #YouthAgency #YouthVoice