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#ConnectedLearning 💡

We research, design, & mobilize learning technologies in equitable, innovative, and learner-centered ways. Check out: https://connectedlearning.uci.edu/
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The Connected Learning Lab @thecllab.bsky.social · Jan 16
✨ The Connected Learning Summit is BACK — and we're bringing together leading researchers, educators, and developers tapping the power of emerging tech to expand access to participatory, playful, and creative learning! 💡

#CFP submissions open March 6: clsummit.news/CFP-2025

#ConnectedLearning2025
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🚨 CORRECTION: We are meeting at Donald Bren Hall 6011, Irvine, CA 92617!
thecllab.bsky.social The Connected Learning Lab @thecllab.bsky.social · Oct 10
📢 Calling @ucirvine.bsky.social staff, students, and locals — join us for the closing Connected Learning Summit keynote with Dr. Danaé Metaxa!

We'll be at 📍CLL Lab, Calit2 3330, UC Irvine. No registration and additional cost required; the keynote is open to the public and will run 1pm-2pm PT.
October 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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📢 Calling @ucirvine.bsky.social staff, students, and locals — join us for the closing Connected Learning Summit keynote with Dr. Danaé Metaxa!

We'll be at 📍CLL Lab, Calit2 3330, UC Irvine. No registration and additional cost required; the keynote is open to the public and will run 1pm-2pm PT.
October 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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🌟 From our Oct 5's #ConnectedLearning2025 In-Person event!

Thrilled to feature 9 showcases and 6 research papers from our community! Connected with folks at NYU, UC Berkeley, USU, and MIT and viewed the keynotes + plenaries.

📸 Thanks to Julie Herrick and @mimiito.bsky.social for the photos!
October 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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As a small team, it’s always bittersweet to say goodbye. 🥲

@jenna-abrams.bsky.social has been an integral part of the Connected Learning Lab for the past 6 years, and we’re happy to share she’s continuing her journey at @colorado.edu 🙌🏽🎉

Her farewell blog: connectedlearning.news/cla092325
A New Direction – Leaving the Connected Learning Lab - Connected Learning Alliance
After six years with UC Irvine and the Connected Learning Lab, I’m moving on to a new position out of state. It’s difficult to put into words how meaningful my time with the CLL and CLA has been, but ...
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September 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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📢📢 Calling all graduate students & postdocs! 

Connect with mentors & peers who share your experiences, learn from inspiring scholars, and build networks!

Applications are open for the Rising Scholars of #ConnectedLearning2025 Meetup, happening Oct 5, 2025!

connectedlearning.news/CLS-Rising-S...
August 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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We’re excited to announce that our friends at @cooneycenter.bsky.social are opening applications for their Sandbox for Literacy Innovations. Tech and media companies focused on children’s literacy learning are invited to apply by 8/29. Learn more: cooneycenter.org/sandbox-literacy
August 5, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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"Connected learning often happens in informal and peer driven contexts that often provide some of the richest and most inclusive learning opportunities for neurodivergent youth."
theclalliance.bsky.social Connected Learning Alliance @theclalliance.bsky.social · Aug 4
Our Director and the Director of the @thecllab.bsky.social, Mimi Ito (@mimiito.bsky.social), reflects on our #ConnectedLearning research, what #Neurodiversity means to her, and the first webinar for the Neurodiversity Potential Study Group in a new article: www.neurodiversity-npo.org/library/neup...
ニューロダイバーシティとコネクテッド・ラーニング ーアセットベース・パラダイムが交差する異文化対話 / Neurodiversity and Connected Learning – A Cross-Cultural Dialogue on Intertwined Asset-Based Paradigms — NPO法人ニューロダイバーシティ｜Neurodiversity NPO
*English follows Japanese ニューロダイバーシティとコネクテッド・ラーニング ── アセットベース・パラダイムが交差する異文化対話 伊藤瑞子（ カリフォルニア大学アーバイン校 コネクテッド・ラーニング・ラボ ） ニューロダイバーシティやコネクテッド・ラーニングとは何でしょうか、そしてこれらはインクルーシブ教育の推進にどのように貢献できるのでしょう...
www.neurodiversity-npo.org
August 4, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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✨ Registration for the Connected Learning Summit to come soon 👀— in the meantime, we’re reminiscing about the magnificent work highlighted in the most recent CLS.

Check out our CLA Blog to discover Headstream’s core mission and their work as catalysts of change: connectedlearning.news/cla112123
Measuring Impact on Teenage Mental Health Entrepreneurship: Insights from the Connected Learning Summit - Connected Learning Alliance
This blog is part of the Connected Learning Alliance’s Post-CLS Blog Series, where we are highlighting work presented at CLS2023. Check back here to see more posts in this series.  The Connected Learn...
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August 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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“It’s not about what the AI is saying. It’s about what the teacher does with that information.”

🚨 ICYMI — New CLA Blog on our spring symposium: connectedlearning.news/cla073025

#AIinEducation
#FutureOfEducation
#StudentCareers
Igniting Student Potential: CLL Symposium Unites Researchers, Industry Leaders, and Educators Over AI’s Capacity for Self-Discovery and Empowered Learning - Connected Learning Alliance
“What we don’t know how to do is help build connections more equitably between mentors and kids. [How to] help young people reflect on what’s important to them for themselves, and know how to connect ...
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August 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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🤖 How can generative AI provide support for educational approaches driven by young people’s strengths? 🤝🏼

This May, we shined the spotlight on learner agency in our spring symposium!

Full recap (including a recording) of the event: connectedlearning.news/cla073025

#GenAI
#ConnectedLearning
Igniting Student Potential: CLL Symposium Unites Researchers, Industry Leaders, and Educators Over AI’s Capacity for Self-Discovery and Empowered Learning - Connected Learning Alliance
“What we don’t know how to do is help build connections more equitably between mentors and kids. [How to] help young people reflect on what’s important to them for themselves, and know how to connect ...
connectedlearning.news
July 31, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Fantastic article addressing youth agency and how we can empower young people to navigate their digital lives by focusing on kids’ needs rather than just the tech and more. ⤵
connectedlearning.news/screens-miss...

@digitalthriving.bsky.social
Yes, Teens Are Glued to Their Screens, But Here’s What We’re Missing | KQED
Adults can help teens develop healthier relationships with technology by focusing on values, habits and emotional awareness.
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July 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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👐🏼 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀: @cooneycenter.bsky.social is seeking for companies and organizations working on children’s literacy who are eager to build on research, co-design with kids, and create more effective tools for learning!

Apply by August 29: connectedlearning.news/sandbox-lite...
July 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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“[F]ewer than 1% of outputs from models in 2025 included a warning when answering a medical question, down from over 26% in 2022.” AI companies have stopped warning you that their chatbots aren’t doctors

connectedlearning.news/companies-st...

@technologyreview.com #EthicalAI #ResponsibleAI
AI companies have stopped warning you that their chatbots aren’t doctors
Once cautious, OpenAI, Grok, and others will now dive into giving unverified medical advice with virtually no disclaimers.
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July 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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“The Toolkit offers youth-serving library staff a free, customizable, and self-paced program to design and implement CL-inspired teen programs and services.”

Check out the ConnectedLib Toolkit 2.0 by the team at @ischool.uw.edu and @univofmaryland.bsky.social: connectedlearning.news/cla121222
ConnectedLib Toolkit 2.0: Bringing Connected Learning to Small and Rural Libraries - Connected Learning Alliance
For the last seven years, I’ve been working with a talented and committed group of researchers and library practitioners on the ConnectedLib Project, a research-practice partnership focused on bringin...
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July 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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📢📢LAST CALL for the @clalliance.bsky.social's #ConnectedLearning2025 Call For Proposals!

𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄 (𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟯𝟬, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱) for our hybrid edtech/ creative learning conference happening Oct 5-10: clsummit.news/cfp-2025

Local meetups at MIT, NYU, Stanford, and UCI!

#CallForProposals
June 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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📢 Call for Proposals Deadline EXTENDED! 📢

We’re doing our FINAL push for our Connected Learning Summit CFP!! 🔥 Submissions are open until the end of June for the Seventh Connected Learning Summit, happening October 5-10: clsummit.news/CFP-2025

#ConnectedLearning2025 #CFP #CallForProposals
June 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Nora Sun’s work is rooted in one core philosophy: peer-to-peer support and mental health education have the potential to improve — and even save — lives. 🫂

Student Voice of Mental Health Award Winner Nora Sun on the Power of Peer-to-Peer Support: connectedlearning.news/voice-peer-234

#PeerSupport
Nora Sun, Student Voice of Mental Health Honoree | JED
JED's '25 Student Voice of Mental Health college honoree speaks on making peer-to-peer support and mental health education more accessible.
connectedlearning.news
June 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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“[Adolescents] don’t want to be bad, they’re not trying to get away with something, but what is cheating is very unclear and what is the source and what isn’t. I think a lot of the teachers and parents don’t know, either.” - @gillianrh.bsky.social

connectedlearning.news/unknown-pion...
AI Is Still an Unknown Country — and Teens Are Its Pioneers - EdSurge News
Adolescents are early adopters of AI, but they crave guidance on using it ethically, a new study finds.
connectedlearning.news
June 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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“Like Rosenblatt’s reader-response theory, readers often respond differently and personally to how they interpret playable narratives.“

🎮 @docfarber.bsky.social and @tracyfullerton.bsky.social proposes a new framework of interprative play in their new book: connectedlearning.news/cla052025
A New Theory of Player Response - Connected Learning Alliance
In Tracy Fullerton’s and my new book, The Well-Read Game: On Playing Thoughtfully, part of The MIT Press’ Playful Thinking series, we propose a new framework of interpretive play. This framework is a ...
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June 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Happy to share our Director, @mimiito.bsky.social, joined the closing panel at Japan’s Global Content Industries conference on May 29th!

”Fandoms, participatory culture, and platform technologies are creating new modes of learning, connection, and commerce.”

connectedlearning.news/global-influ...
June 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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“If we give young people stories that honor their feelings, and help them navigate an increasingly complex world, the positive impact will last for years to come.”

✨ Fantastic article by Dr. Yalda T. Uhls, founder and CEO of the @scholarsnstory.bsky.social: connectedlearning.news/daniel-tiger...
The ‘Daniel Tiger’ effect: How quality kids’ TV impacts teen mental health—and why cuts to PBS could be disastrous
Public television can be crucial in shaping who children become and how they relate to the world around them.
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June 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Solutions for addressing #DigitalWellbeing are not one-size-fits all — young people in different communities have varying needs. 💙💡

See our #ConnectedWellbeing Initiative; 11 teams developed youth-serving innovations that foster youth and community wellbeing: connectedlearning.news/cla052924
May 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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New #ConnectedLearning2025 announcement!

✨ Please follow @theclalliance.bsky.social for future Connected Learning Summit news!
theclalliance.bsky.social Connected Learning Alliance @theclalliance.bsky.social · May 28
📢 #ConnectedLearning2025 Announcement!! 📢

We’re thrilled to announce the TWO keynote speakers for the 2025 Connected Learning Summit, happening October 5–10 both online and in person!

🔸Meryl Alper - Opening Keynote at MIT
🔸Danaé Metaxa - Closing Keynote at UC Irvine

See: clsummit.news/keynote
May 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Video games, like novels, can give meaning through its playable narratives and provide a mirror to its players, or a sliding “glass door” into other cultures.

⭐CLA Blog - A New Theory of Player Response: connectedlearning.news/cla052025

@docfarber.bsky.social

#LearningThroughPlay
May 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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🌟 ICYMI - our new blog with @docfarber.bsky.social on his latest book co-authored with Tracy Fullerton, The Well-Read Game: connectedlearning.news/cla052025

”Imagine how our world might change if our powerful responses to games were shared and celebrated as openly and thoughtfully as with books.”
May 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM