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This webisode of StudentSpeak visits Free Spirit Media, a nonprofit organization that focuses on media literacy and digital communication skills with a curriculum in Chicago high schools that continues…
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This week’s StudentSpeak focuses on digital storytelling using the book “Neverwhere,” by British author Neil Gaiman. The students in Chicago’s YOUmedia program remixed the themes and ideas in the…
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On a recent visit to the Art Institute of Chicago, a group of teenagers didn’t take the usual guided tour. Instead, the teens took Art Institute staff on a guided tour of “their” museum. They were…
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This week’s StudentSpeak visits Wheeling High School in the northern suburbs of Chicago, where teens are solving real-world problems for scientists at Abbott Labs. Students in eight other schools…
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This week’s StudentSpeak webisode goes behind the scenes at a programming workshop in Chicago where teens are using new tools developed by Mozilla to remix and improve the web. The teens taking part…
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This week’s StudentSpeak webisode goes behind the scenes at FabLab San Diego, where teens are learning to experiment with technology in a hands-on programming course. “We give them the chance to…
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In this week’s webisode, StudentSpeak goes behind the scenes at the Mark Bradford Project, sponsored by Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Bradford, who’s known for abstract work that explores…
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FabLab San Diego in Partnership with UCSD Extension
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At FabLab San Diego, students and community members are invited to come “make almost anything.” The space is a digital design and fabrication laboratory that invites the public to experiment with…
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In this webisode, we follow students from YOUmedia as they attend Chicago’s first Youth Media Conference as citizen journalists, interviewing their peers about the role of media in their lives. Organized…
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In this webisode, Studentspeak follows 17-year-old Daniel Robbins as he takes his music to the next level with digital mixing equipment and software—and some social media marketing savvy. Robbins,…
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Scott Comstock understands what it’s like to be bored at school. “I was not a good student,” the self-described “paint -to-pixels” artist told Spotlight. “I spent most of my time in school drawing…
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Young people express their politics in new ways, often invisible to older generations. Their commitments are to social causes, and their actions are more often communicated across online networks…
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