Blog Posts

A Civic Imperative for Media Literacy: Moving Teens From Consumption...

Partners highlight the need to combine media literacy and civic education efforts, in order to...

Philly School Media Network Creates Authentic Platforms for Philadelphia Youth

The Philly School Media Network is building partnerships with local teachers and journalists to create...

Another Cause of Inequality: Slow Internet in Schools

By Heidi Moore Using digital tools in the classroom isn’t the future of learning, it’s...

Craft, Curiosity, and Community: Students Find Passion and Relevance Restoring...

A partnership wtih a nearby vintage auto shop creates opportunities for students to reconnect with...

Behind the Camera, Students Document Life and Learning

At Philadelphia’s Workshop School, students are developing media production skills to shape their school community...

Immigrant Teens in the South Bronx Learn the Art of...

Teachers in the South Bronx extend opportunities for student-driven online writing projects through the Youth...

A Lab That Grows Young Writers

An afterschool writing center offers fourth- and fifth-graders the opportunity to explore their creative capacity upon...

Designed Equity: Reflection on Youth-focused Game Jam in South Central...

Educator innovator Antero Garcia shares his observations about a game jam in LA and some...

Teachers Supporting Teachers at the time of COVID-19

Educators with experience teaching and learning online have been supporting their colleagues in making thoughtful...

Join the Marginal Syllabus for Social Reading in a Time...

Join other educators in four synchronous social reading opportunities—or annotation "flash mobs"—with a focus on...

Writing Together, at Home and Online

A sojourn at home can be the occasion for lots of creativity around topics and...

The Grapple Series, Session 2: Algorithms & Justice

Educators explore and discuss algorithms and their relationship to justice. Part of a collaboration between...

LEARN Marginal Syllabus (March)—“Untold Stories”: Cultivating Consequential Writing with a...

Learn about one teacher's pedagogical approach to literacy, writing, and metaphor that can help others...

Reflections on a Decade of Engaged Scholarship–The Final Report from...

This new report describes the connected learning approach and research in the context of broader...

The Grapple Series Session 1: AI…What?!

The Grapple Series: Exploring the Intersections of Artificial Intelligence & Humanity is organized by educators...

LEARN Marginal Syllabus (February)—Praisesongs of Place: Youth Envisioning Space and...

Our February reading for the 2019-20 Literacy, Equity + Remarkable Notes = LEARN Marginal Syllabus...

Become an “Exhibitionist” of Student Learning!

The Share Your Learning campaign advocates for public presentations to give students an authentic audience...

Gen Z Talks About Election 2020

The Let’s Talk About Election 2020 youth media challenge showcase officially opened January 20, 2020—exactly one year...

LEARN Marginal Syllabus (January)—Revising Resistance: A Step Toward Student-Centered Activism

Our January reading describes how one teacher helped students design their own learning, study issues...

Rating News Sources Can Help Limit the Spread of Misinformation

Study shows that expert ratings of news sources had stronger effects on belief than ratings...

LEARN Marginal Syllabus 2019-20 (December)—Miles Morales: Spider-Man and Reimagining the...

Our December text for Marginal Syllabus examines how a book, Miles Morales: Spider-Man, by Jason...

Civic Engagement Starts in the Classroom

KQED, the National Writing Project, and PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs are co-hosting the KQED...

LEARN Marginal Syllabus 2019-20 (November)—Whiteness is a White Problem: Whiteness...

The first reading for our 2019-20 Marginal Syllabus employs racial storytelling as a means to...

Why Annotate? LEARN: Marginal Syllabus 2019-2020

Marginal Syllabus 2019-2020 invites everyone interested in equity to read and annotate online texts with...