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Anaheim public schools embrace projects that reflect creativity, critical thinking, and a sense of purpose. June Ahn at the University of California, Irvine, is the district’s research partner. With support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, his team is creating an AI tool that analyzes students’ performance and reflections so that teachers can understand a student’s growth...

"Earlier this year, we had Dr. Candice Odgers on our podcast. Unlike Haidt, she is an actual expert in this field and has been doing research on the issue for years. The podcast was mostly to talk about what the research actually shows, rather than just “playing off Haidt’s” misleading book. However, Odgers has become the go-to responder to Haidt’s misleading moral panic."

On October 8, 2024, TYDE hosted a virtual discussion with nationally renowned psychologists Jonathan Haidt and Candice Odgers, who explored the research behind social media and youth mental health. The conversation part of the 2024 Youth-Nex conference.

"Dr. Odgers commented on the tendency to focus on the perceived negative effect of social media on girls. 'There’s nothing more terrifying to society than little girls becoming women,' she said. Conversations about “saving” young women by banning access reflect 'bigger structural issues about how we support young people coming of age in this world,' she continued."

For public libraries, building connected learning-based teen services means reimagining offerings to reflect the culture and needs of diverse teens and their communities. Two new reports offer valuable insights and recommendations for public libraries working to foster teen engagement.

A professor at the University of California, Irvine, Constance Steinkuehler works in UCI’s Department of Informatics, focusing on multiplayer online video games and their ramifications on culture, cognition and learning. She also served as an advisor under the Obama administration on video games and digital media.

Recorded Live at the Anime Station store in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles on July 13, 2024, rapper Denzel Curry talks with UC Irvine cultural anthropologist Dr. Mimi Ito about his relationship to anime and anime culture in Japan and abroad.

"We are excited to announce the release of two reports that offer valuable insights and recommendations for public libraries striving to foster teen engagement through connected learning approaches. The reports, stemming from the Transforming and Scaling Teen Services for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (TS4EDI) project, provide a comprehensive look at the challenges and opportunities..."

How would you try to convince a naysayer of the value of arts education? Maybe you would plead for the value of these subjects in their own right, citing the mind-expanding powers of self-expression, technical exploration, and human understanding. Or, depending on how stubborn your opponent is, you might try ... pointing to the evidence that immersing children in the arts leads to better outcomes

This intersection of arts, entrepreneurship, and civic value is what drew researchers to include Inner-City Arts in their recent report, The Connected Arts Learning Framework, An Expanded View of the Purposes and Possibilities for Arts Learning. Funded by the Wallace Foundation and led by arts learning expert Kylie Peppler and her team at the University of California Irvine...