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The Digital Youth Network: Cultivating Digital Media Citizenship in Urban Communities by Nichole Pinkard, Brigid Barron, Caitlin K. Martin, Kimberley Gomez (Hardcover, 2014)

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 and identities-the gamer, the poet, the activist-were able to find some aspect of DYN that engaged them individually and connected them to one another. Finally, the authors offer generative suggestions for designers of similar informal learning spaces.

Publisher
Jolie Matthews, Veronique Mertl, Tene Gray, Kimberly Austin, Amber Levinson, Kimberly A. Richards, MIT Press Ltd
ISBN-13
9780262027038
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208864680

Subject Area
Educational Technology
Author
Nichole Pinkard, Brigid Barron, Caitlin K. Martin, Kimberley Gomez
Publication Name
The Digital Youth Network: Cultivating Digital Media Citizenship in Urban Communities
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Strategy
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
344 Pages

Title_Author
Brigid Barron, Caitlin K. Martin, Nichole Pinkard, Kimberley Gomez
Series Title
The John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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