Technology Initiative Events
The Power of Youth Voice
What Kids Learn When They Create With Digital Media
November 18, 2009
The Academy of Natural Sciences
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
There are many questions around what it means for young people to be widely involved in digital media use today—whether it is playing video games, using the Internet for research or social networks, or using mobile devices.
The Power of Youth Voice: What Kids Learn When They Create With Digital Media is a public forum designed to open discussion in the Philadelphia area to educators, parents, researchers, students, and community members about the potential of learning through engagement with digital media.
By bringing in experts in the digital media and learning field and showing examples of how digital media is used to create powerful learning experiences for young people in and outside the classroom, we hope to encourage dialogue about a variety of opportunities to make learning meaningful and relevant to the next generation.
Forum Panel
- Renee Hobbs, founder of the Media Education Lab
at Temple University and professor at the School of Communications and Theater and the College of Education; - Nichole Pinkard, founder of the Digital Youth Network and senior research associate, as well as the chief technology officer and director of the Information Infrastructure System project at the Center for Urban School Improvement at the University of Chicago;
- Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, director of National Programs and Site Development at the National Writing Project, University of California, Berkeley
The panel will be moderated by Connie Yowell, director of education in the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's Program on Human and Community Development.
Register to Attend in Person—or Virtually
In addition to the live event, the forum will be broadcast in Second Life—a virtual world—and available via streaming video.
For those who attend in person, before the panel and discussion a reception will be held, during which examples of youth work involving digital media will be on display. The panel discussion and forum will begin at 7:00 pm.
To register—for the live event or the virtual event—go to the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation 
.
