Digital Youth Network

The Digital Youth Network (DYN) is a hybrid digital literacy program that creates opportunities for youth to engage in learning environments that span both in-school and out-of-school contexts. The DYN model focuses heavily on the sixth- to eighth-grade experience through explicit connections to school-based curriculum, interest-based clubs that require youth to use new media literacies in order to participate, and remix competitions and “open shop” times (both virtual and place-based) where youth are supported in using new media literacies to explore their own questions and push their imaginations.

Location: Chicago, IL

Highlights:

Digital Youth Network gives students tools to be engaged, articulate, critical and collaborative. DYN facilitates opportunities for youth to become creators – designers, builders, and innovators – who can envision new possibilities.  To do this, DYN uses a model that spans the worlds of school, home, and after-school activities by providing youth with:

• Access and training in the use of new media literacy tools
• Meaningful activities where the development of new media literacies is essential for accomplishing goals
• A continuum of established new media mentors (high school through professionals) who develop students’ technical skills, serve as role models, and provide students access to the communities of practice surrounding technology-based careers

Links:

• Digital Youth Network - http://www.digitalyouthnetwork.org/

Submitted by lmeier on: Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 10:25 am

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digital literacy, digital youth network