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The Digital Youth Network: cultivating digital media citizenship in urban communities,Brigid Barron; Digital Youth Network by Brigid Barron; Kimberley Gomez; Nichole Pinkard; Caitlin K. Martin; Kimberly Austin; Ten Gray; Amber Levinson; Jolie Matthews; Vronique Mertl; Kimberly A. Richards; Maryanna Rogers; Daniel Stringer; Jolene Zywica is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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An ambitious project to help economically disadvantaged students develop technical, creative, and analytical skills across a learning ecology that spans school, community, home, and online.The popular image of the “digital native”—usually depicted as a technically savvy and digitally empowered teen—is based on the assumption that all young people are equally equipped to become innovators and entrepreneurs. Yet young people in low-income communities often lack access to the learning opportunities, tools, and collaborators (at school and elsewhere) that help digital natives develop the necessary expertise. This book describes one approach to address this disparity: the Digital Youth Network (DYN), an ambitious project to help economically disadvantaged middle-school students in Chicago develop technical, creative, and analytical skills across a learning ecology that spans school, community, home, and online.The book reports findings from a pioneering mixed-method three-year study of DYN and how it nurtured imaginative production, expertise with digital media tools, and the propensity to share these creative capacities with others. Through DYN, students, despite differing interests an

Author

Brigid Barron; Kimberley Gomez; Nichole Pinkard; Caitlin K. Martin; Kimberly Austin; Ten Gray; Amber Levinson; Jolie Matthews; Vronique Mertl; Kimberly A. Richards; Maryanna Rogers; Daniel Stringer; Jolene Zywica

Publisher

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262324359

Subjects

Education, Computer Science, Science