digital youth research

Website for Digital Youth Research - kids informal learning with digital media. The project is focused on 3 general objectives; “1. To describe kids as active innovators using digital media, rather than as passive consumers of popular culture or academic knowledge. 2. To think about the implications of kids innovative cultures for schools and higher education, and engage in a dialogue with educational planners. 3. To advise software designers about how to use kids innovative approaches to knowledge and learning in building better software.

Includes a list of publications, some online, in categories such as Media and Culture, Digital Media and Learning, Youth Cultures, as well as a number of projects well worth watching. One that caught my eye was the project “Digital Media in an Urban Lansdscape,” a study into how L.A. urban youth are using new media both within school and outside of school. “Student interviews and observations in the classroom will help us understand, from the point of view of youth, what is important and interesting about new technologies and how the child uses them both within school and out of school“.