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Resources

​For each strategic area, we developed resources—including perspectives, how-to’s, and case examples—providing practical information on what this work looks like on the ground. Authored by both our research team and our youth-serving partners, these resources provide a knowledge base for designing youth-centered learning with digital technology.

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Community
Creating Big, Ambitious, Collaborative Projects
CapacitySkills
Professional Learning and Staff Capacity to Support Out-of-School Digital Learning Programs
Technology
Using Data to Improve Out-of-School Digital Learning Programs
Technology
The Space for Creativity
Pedagogy
Sandboxes, Studios and Ladders: Comparative Program Structures in Out-of-School Digital Learning Organizations
Pedagogy
Youth-led Advisory Boards to Promote Youth Leadership
Pedagogy
The Role of Trust and Ritual in Youth Digital Learning
CommunitySkills
Client-Based Work as Pedagogy in Informal Digital Learning
CommunitySkills
The 3D PrintShop - Client-based Work as Pedagogy at Digital Harbor Foundation
CommunitySkills
Free Spirit PRO - Client-based Work as Pedagogy at Free Spirit Media
PedagogySkills
Structuring Adult/Youth Collaboration in Ambitious Digital Learning and Making Projects
PedagogySkills
FUTUREWORLDS - Adult/Youth Collaboration at AS220
PedagogySkills
Learning Productions - Adult/Youth Collaboration at Beam Center
PedagogySkills
Game Design Studio - Adult/Youth Collaboration at WMCAT
Technology
The Right Tool for the Job: Deciding on Tech, Tools and Materials in Informal Digital Learning
Community
Linking Youth to Local Creative, Arts, and Technology Scenes
Pedagogy
Learning Productions: Beyond Project-based Learning
Community
Leveraging Partnerships to Support Youth Pathways in Technology
Technology
YOUmedia’s Out-of-School Digital Learning Software Guide
Capacity
Professional Learning Supports for Flexible and Responsive Drop-in Programming at YOUmedia
Pedagogy
Building FUTUREWORLDS: AS220’s Youth-Led Movement to Design and Create the Futures we Want to Inhabit
CommunityPedagogy
Using a Collective Impact Approach to Support Youth Pathways in Technology
Community
School Partnerships as On-Ramps to Informal Digital Learning
CommunityPedagogy
Not just a Flyer: Rethinking Youth Recruitment into Out-of-School Making, Media and Computing Programs
Capacity
Peer-to-Peer Professional Learning around Informal Digital Learning
Capacity
Educator Capacity to Support Youth Pathways in Media & Technology
Skills
Linking Social and Emotional Learning to Digital Learning through Collaboration and Empathy
Capacity
Data Routines for Improving Digital Learning Programs
Capacity
Why Teaching Artists?
CommunityPedagogy
Ambrose Printshop - Client-based work at WMCAT
CapacityPedagogy
Youth to Leader Pathway at AS220
Pedagogy
Learning, Interest and Voice at Free Spirit Media
Capacity
Building Staff Capacity through Peer Learning and Passion at the Digital Harbor Foundation
Technology
Distributing Youth Driven Media Projects via Social Media
PedagogyTechnology
Learning through Co-design: How Students and Educators Created a Digital Solution to Program Challenges
Pedagogy
Designing Community Art Projects at DreamYard
Pedagogy
Tapping Youth Interest to Cooperatively Design Out-of-School Digital Learning Programs