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How Gaming Creates Opportunities for Learning That Endures
December 5, 2022 EdSurge
"If you can embed skill development within a genuinely motivating social set of rewards, learning is deeper and more enduring. Because, as humans, we're ultimately...
OPINION: Let’s help our middle schoolers learn from their digital worlds
January 16, 2023 The Hechinger Report
Many middle schoolers are spending as much (if not more) time online as they do in classrooms, often in spaces not designed for them. More...
New Minecraft server helps grieving kids feel less alone
December 18, 2022 Mashable
"Players were ushered into a central hub from which they could warp to other areas, like the memorial garden, where they could honor their loved...
A Minecraft Server for Grieving Kids
January 25, 2023 Tech & Learning
ExperienceCraft is a Minecraft server that is not all that different from other Minecraft multiplayer servers. Kids who join the server are able to build,...
Meet the teens making the digital world a kinder and gentler place
November 15, 2021 CNN
A new collaborative project called HX brings together top thinkers and researchers in the field of ethical technology to work on generating new language, ideas...
Interest Oriented Learning Episode 3 | ft. Vera Michalchik | Re-Educated Podcast
December 1, 2021 Re-Educated Podcast
In today's conversation, we discuss ways in which schools can assist students in finding their interests.
Connected Learning Resources
Research Tools
The Connected Learning Research Tools site features tools and instruments from 11 connected learning studies and projects.
Youth Connections for Wellbeing
The YCW project seeks to identify, support, test, and communicate new digital strategies for tapping young people’s insights, agency, and technology engagements to support wellbeing.
Raising Good Gamers
The Raising Good Gamers initiative was created to catalyze positive change in the culture and climate of online gaming for youth.
Affiliated Labs
Connecting the EdTech Research EcoSystem (CERES)
CERES is aimed at reducing growing inequalities in children’s learning and development and increasing access to education for children with disabilities.
Games Learning Society
The Games+Learning+Society (GLS) center is the premier center for transdisciplinary research and innovation in games and interactive media for learning, behavioral and social change.
Made with Play
Made with Play supports the research of online, play-based environments for youth and centers youth voice, equity, and inclusion in the creation of healthy, caring, kid-powered communities.
Creativity Labs
The Creativity Labs focuses on constructionist and design-based learning, and computational tools that support learning by leveraging youths’ interests in digital culture, design, and making.