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Deepening the Ways We Engage Youth as (Digital) Citizens
According to the recently released Common Sense Census, approximately six out of ten U.S. K–12...
November 11, 2014
Teens are continually finding new social media platforms.
But no matter the network, there are both concerns about how teens use new technologies and a realization of the opportunities for collaboration and peer learning. Social Media Week Chicago explored these issues and more in a panel at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Two of the panelists, Sam Dyson, director of the Hive Chicago Learning Network, and danah boyd, a principal researcher for Microsoft Research and author of “It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens” join WBEZ’s Tech Shift to share some of their observations.
