Category
Tech and Society
Lessons Learned from a Research-Practice Partnership
SCE’s executive director shares lessons learned from a research-practice partnership focused on how digital tools and practices can promote the development of skills for the workforce and positive community participation. Read the blog here. The Power ...
Is “Screen Time” Too Outdated and Out of Sync With Reality?
The New York Times reported on findings released by social and data scientist in the journal Human-Computer Interaction. The researchers say that the phrase, or even the concept of what we think of as “screen time”, ...
Is Technology Immersion Making Social and Emotional Learning More Important Now Than Ever Before?
This week’s EdSurge podcast delves into a 2018 Pew Research study on teens’ social and emotional experiences in the digital age. The report looks at whether teenage angst and the struggle through those awkward years is ...
DoSomething.org’s Untangle The Web 2019 Campaign Update
The jury is still out. For all its good, the internet is not always a productive, friendly, or supportive place. That’s why we partnered with DoSomething.org to empower young people to take ownership of their digital ...
Susan Crown Exchange Launches New Challenge: Youth Voice in the Digital Age
Digital life is a deeply personal and highly complex experience for young people. But when it comes to making digital spaces more welcoming or community-oriented, youth state that they remain largely on their own. They feel ...
New Infrastructure Takes Shape—Digital Citizenship
Over the last 10 years of partnering closely with experts in digital learning and social and emotional learning, SCE has witnessed practitioners and educators recognize that these soft and hard skills intersect, inform, overlap and enhance ...
Takeaways From Youth Listening Sessions on the Rights and Responsibilities of Digital Citizenship
To further understand the youth experience online, SCE partnered with Chicago Ideas to conduct youth listening sessions, with a particular emphasis on how youth view their “rights and responsibilities.” To support these youth-centered conversations, Chicago Ideas ...