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Youth Voices Count with ‘Letters to the Next President 2.0’
Librarians, informal educators, and teachers are using Letters to the Next President 2.0 to engage their students with civic and political issues, and to amplify their students’ voices on the issues that matter to them. Nothing feels normal this election season, and teaching the election is no different. Like all of us, students, especially teens,…
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Hang Out, Mess Around, Geek Out—Studio NPL Puts Pro-Grade Media In The Hands Of Youth
An initiative to fill community spaces with programs using innovative equipment, software, and professionals is teaching youth how to learn by immersing them in digital arts. Libraries have changed since my childhood in the 1980s. It’s unlikely I’ll ever again hear the soft hiss of a microfiche viewer speeding through decades of newsprint. Card catalogs might…
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In San Francisco, Teens Design a Living Room for High-Tech Learning at the Public Library
When teens enter The Mix at the San Francisco Public Library, 19-year-old Dayra Banales is quick to step up and offer a tour, walking visitors past a row of new computers and through studios filled with video and audio equipment. She knows just about every inch of the space—after all, she helped design it. The…
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Making the Case for a Makeathon
TechHive is the YOUmedia Learning Lab based out of the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley, California. During the last weekend in May, TechHive’s staff and teen interns collaborated to plan, develop, raise funds for, and run a Makeathon. The idea for this event came from a shared desire to experiment with an alternative to…
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ARTLAB+ Teens Invited to White House Game Jam
On September 6th and 7th, 2014, ARTLAB+ teens were invited to participate in the White House Game Jam in Washington DC. Within gaming circles, a “game jam” is when designers gather to plan, design, and create games in a short period of time. This event was organized by the White House Office of Science and…