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Get Ready for the State of the Union
Engage your students in dissecting and speaking back to the State of the Union Address...
10 Connected Learning Lesson Plans from the Remake Learning Network
Ten members of Remake Learning, a network of innovative educators and organizations in Pittsburgh, have...
Educating for Democracy: What We Can Do
In a challenging time for our democracy, how can we help students prepare for civic...
Writing Our Civic Futures (January): Defining Political Equality
In October, we launched Writing Our Civic Futures, a collaboration of the National Writing Project...
Writing Our Civic Futures (December): Bringing Students’ Lives to the...
Our December edition of Writing Our Civic Futures, our annotation collaboration with Marginal Syllabus, explores...
Youth Media Challenge Captures Stepping Up Stories
High school social studies teacher Peter Paccone shares how his students have "stepped up", and...
Writing Our Civic Futures (November): Reimagining Civic Participation
Last month we kicked off Writing Our Civic Futures, a collaboration of the National Writing...
KQED Youth Media Challenge: How Are You Stepping Up?
KQED and the Bay Area Video Coalition's Youth Media Challenge asks teens to create video,...
5 Secrets to Creating an Innovative After-school Program
Connected learning scholar Mimi Ito explores lessons learned from a successful long-distance collaboration to create...
Writing Our Civic Futures (October): Youth Voice and Participation
Our collaborative annotation project, Writing Our Civic Futures, is underway with a conversation about youth...
How Young Activists Deploy Digital Tools for Social Change
Middle Eastern and Muslim-American youth are creating new ways to use social media and other...
Starting at the Margins: An Invitation to Writing Our Civic...
With Writing Our Civic Futures, a collaborative project of the National Writing Project and Marginal...
Collaboration, Conversation, and Reflection at the 4T Virtual Conference on...
Get ready for this year’s 4T Virtual Conference on Digital Writing with a look back...
Learning and Teaching Today: Introducing The Current at Educator Innovator
The Current at Educator Innovator, our redesigned open publishing platform, is now live and ready...
Classroom Guide for Above the Noise
Engage students in issues of science and media literacy with KQED's entertaining and informative hype-busting...
From Connected Learning to Connected Teaching: A Necessary Step Forward
Nicole Mirra begins a framework of connected teaching, a set of moves and practices that...
Six Ways to Build Girl-Inclusive Makerspaces
Nikole Collins-Puri, CEO of TechBridge Girls, explores her organization's mission and outlines six key strategies...
Ideas for Student Civic Action in a Time of Social...
Steven Zemelman provides an easy guide to getting started with civic action projects, bringing together...
Maker Programs Strive to Reach All Students
Through training and outreach, maker programs aim for greater diversity among future innovators.
Moving Past Start-Up: Supporting Library Makerspaces Over Time
A group of YOUmedia makerspaces band together to innovate and support library makerspaces facing the...
Using Connected Learning to Empower Student Agency
From video chats to charity basketball games, educators are empowering youth civic engagement by connecting...
Writing Love and Ourselves in the Classroom and Beyond
Collaboratively explore the meaning of love and the power of personal narrative in our annotathon...
Annotate, Collaborate, and Learn with Marginal Syllabus and Educator Innovator
Join us this month as we launch our partnership with Marginal Syllabus with a Hypothesis...
Epic Learning: Large Class as Intentional Design
Northern California Writing Project teacher-consultant Kim Jaxon’s jumbo-sized composition class is designed to harness the...