The Connected Learning Lab
@thecllab.bsky.social
#ConnectedLearning 💡
We research, design, & mobilize learning technologies in equitable, innovative, and learner-centered ways. Check out: https://connectedlearning.uci.edu/
We research, design, & mobilize learning technologies in equitable, innovative, and learner-centered ways. Check out: https://connectedlearning.uci.edu/
📢 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.
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
📢 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.
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.
🌟 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!
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
🌟 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!
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!
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
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
👐🏼 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...
Apply by August 29: connectedlearning.news/sandbox-lite...
July 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
👐🏼 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...
Apply by August 29: connectedlearning.news/sandbox-lite...
📢📢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
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
📢📢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
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
📢 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
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
📢 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
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
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...
”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
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...
”Fandoms, participatory culture, and platform technologies are creating new modes of learning, connection, and commerce.”
connectedlearning.news/global-influ...
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
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
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
See our #ConnectedWellbeing Initiative; 11 teams developed youth-serving innovations that foster youth and community wellbeing: connectedlearning.news/cla052924
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
⭐CLA Blog - A New Theory of Player Response: connectedlearning.news/cla052025
@docfarber.bsky.social
#LearningThroughPlay
May 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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
⭐CLA Blog - A New Theory of Player Response: connectedlearning.news/cla052025
@docfarber.bsky.social
#LearningThroughPlay
🌟 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.”
”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
🌟 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.”
”Imagine how our world might change if our powerful responses to games were shared and celebrated as openly and thoughtfully as with books.”
#ConnectedLearning2025 is BACK and we’re accepting Showcases and Research Papers for this year’s hybrid conference! Deadline on June 23: clsummit.news/CFP-2025
In-Person Poster Locations:
📍 MIT’s Media LAB – MA
📍 NYU – NY
📍 Stanford University – CA
📍 UC Irvine – CA
#CallForProposals
In-Person Poster Locations:
📍 MIT’s Media LAB – MA
📍 NYU – NY
📍 Stanford University – CA
📍 UC Irvine – CA
#CallForProposals
May 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
#ConnectedLearning2025 is BACK and we’re accepting Showcases and Research Papers for this year’s hybrid conference! Deadline on June 23: clsummit.news/CFP-2025
In-Person Poster Locations:
📍 MIT’s Media LAB – MA
📍 NYU – NY
📍 Stanford University – CA
📍 UC Irvine – CA
#CallForProposals
In-Person Poster Locations:
📍 MIT’s Media LAB – MA
📍 NYU – NY
📍 Stanford University – CA
📍 UC Irvine – CA
#CallForProposals
“We learned early from listening to our young people and youth design group that we had to go where the young people were.”
Peer Health Exchange’s youth design team utilizes their web platform, selfsea, to connect and deliver health-based digital resources to teens: connectedlearning.news/Study-PHE
Peer Health Exchange’s youth design team utilizes their web platform, selfsea, to connect and deliver health-based digital resources to teens: connectedlearning.news/Study-PHE
May 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
“We learned early from listening to our young people and youth design group that we had to go where the young people were.”
Peer Health Exchange’s youth design team utilizes their web platform, selfsea, to connect and deliver health-based digital resources to teens: connectedlearning.news/Study-PHE
Peer Health Exchange’s youth design team utilizes their web platform, selfsea, to connect and deliver health-based digital resources to teens: connectedlearning.news/Study-PHE
💬 Workshop - Our lab and ASIS&T are holding a hybrid workshop to raise awareness about the importance of thoughtful engagement in the design of AI applications for culturally and linguistically diverse populations!
⏰ 12:30pm - 4:30pm PST on May 6
Sign-up: connectedlearning.news/diversity-ai...
⏰ 12:30pm - 4:30pm PST on May 6
Sign-up: connectedlearning.news/diversity-ai...
May 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
💬 Workshop - Our lab and ASIS&T are holding a hybrid workshop to raise awareness about the importance of thoughtful engagement in the design of AI applications for culturally and linguistically diverse populations!
⏰ 12:30pm - 4:30pm PST on May 6
Sign-up: connectedlearning.news/diversity-ai...
⏰ 12:30pm - 4:30pm PST on May 6
Sign-up: connectedlearning.news/diversity-ai...
📢📢 We’re holding a Spring Symposium starting 4:45pm PT on May 6 at UC Irvine (Calit2 Auditorium)! Hear from leading innovators on AI-enhanced learning centered on developing young people’s understanding of their strengths and interests.
✨ RSVP + Info: connectedlearning.news/cll-spring-25
✨ RSVP + Info: connectedlearning.news/cll-spring-25
May 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
📢📢 We’re holding a Spring Symposium starting 4:45pm PT on May 6 at UC Irvine (Calit2 Auditorium)! Hear from leading innovators on AI-enhanced learning centered on developing young people’s understanding of their strengths and interests.
✨ RSVP + Info: connectedlearning.news/cll-spring-25
✨ RSVP + Info: connectedlearning.news/cll-spring-25
“Showing people continuous data […] left people with a vague impression of gradual change, but showing binary data for the same town […] brought home the striking shift,” @rachitdubey.bsky.social in UCLA study: How to break through climate apathy
connectedlearning.news/climate-apat...
connectedlearning.news/climate-apat...
April 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
“Showing people continuous data […] left people with a vague impression of gradual change, but showing binary data for the same town […] brought home the striking shift,” @rachitdubey.bsky.social in UCLA study: How to break through climate apathy
connectedlearning.news/climate-apat...
connectedlearning.news/climate-apat...
Having recently expanded to downtown Mexico City, ListoAmerica is powered by the interests of its youth members to explore their lived experiences and pursue interest-driven opportunities — anything from photo editing to robotics to designing custom t-shirts. 👕
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April 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Having recently expanded to downtown Mexico City, ListoAmerica is powered by the interests of its youth members to explore their lived experiences and pursue interest-driven opportunities — anything from photo editing to robotics to designing custom t-shirts. 👕
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🎓 #Postdoc Opp: Vanderbilt University is now hiring postdocs seeking to connect their STEM research experience to middle and high school students. Postdocs will teach, design innovative inquiry-based curriculum on multidisciplinary STEM topics and more.
See: connectedlearning.news/vanderbilt-p...
See: connectedlearning.news/vanderbilt-p...
April 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
🎓 #Postdoc Opp: Vanderbilt University is now hiring postdocs seeking to connect their STEM research experience to middle and high school students. Postdocs will teach, design innovative inquiry-based curriculum on multidisciplinary STEM topics and more.
See: connectedlearning.news/vanderbilt-p...
See: connectedlearning.news/vanderbilt-p...
Our Partnering with Future Ready with the Library case study is the final case study in our CCLL project and details the library staff partners we worked with, the programs they created, as well as evaluation methods recommended to each partner. 🔍
See: connectedlearning.news/cla102020
See: connectedlearning.news/cla102020
April 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Our Partnering with Future Ready with the Library case study is the final case study in our CCLL project and details the library staff partners we worked with, the programs they created, as well as evaluation methods recommended to each partner. 🔍
See: connectedlearning.news/cla102020
See: connectedlearning.news/cla102020
"One population that may be particularly vulnerable to negative mental health effects in the metaverse is adolescent girls[…]. The metaverse needs to be designed with guardrails and scaffolds that support youth as they enter these spaces, especially girls.” connectedlearning.news/cla100223
March 31, 2025 at 4:39 PM
"One population that may be particularly vulnerable to negative mental health effects in the metaverse is adolescent girls[…]. The metaverse needs to be designed with guardrails and scaffolds that support youth as they enter these spaces, especially girls.” connectedlearning.news/cla100223
From @ischool.uw.edu, the ConnectedLib Toolkit was co-created with public youth library staff to offer a free, customizable, and self-paced program for designing and implementing #ConnectedLearning -inspired teen programs and services. 🌠
See: connectedlearning.news/cla121222
See: connectedlearning.news/cla121222
March 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
From @ischool.uw.edu, the ConnectedLib Toolkit was co-created with public youth library staff to offer a free, customizable, and self-paced program for designing and implementing #ConnectedLearning -inspired teen programs and services. 🌠
See: connectedlearning.news/cla121222
See: connectedlearning.news/cla121222
See what’s buzzing🐝 in the #ConnectedLearning community — check out the latest volume of the CLA newsletter! ⤵
connectedlearning.news/Vol256
”What the axing of the Education Dept’s office of ed tech means for schools; the gender gap in teen experiences; what happens to libraries if IMLS goes away?”
connectedlearning.news/Vol256
”What the axing of the Education Dept’s office of ed tech means for schools; the gender gap in teen experiences; what happens to libraries if IMLS goes away?”
March 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
See what’s buzzing🐝 in the #ConnectedLearning community — check out the latest volume of the CLA newsletter! ⤵
connectedlearning.news/Vol256
”What the axing of the Education Dept’s office of ed tech means for schools; the gender gap in teen experiences; what happens to libraries if IMLS goes away?”
connectedlearning.news/Vol256
”What the axing of the Education Dept’s office of ed tech means for schools; the gender gap in teen experiences; what happens to libraries if IMLS goes away?”
🆕 from Distinctive Voices, a program of the @nationalacademies.org, check out this incredible keynote from our director, @mimiito.bsky.social: “Kids and Tech: How to Tell Fact From Fiction”
connectedlearning.news/kids-tech-d59
#TeenMentalHealth
#YouthVoice
connectedlearning.news/kids-tech-d59
#TeenMentalHealth
#YouthVoice
March 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
🆕 from Distinctive Voices, a program of the @nationalacademies.org, check out this incredible keynote from our director, @mimiito.bsky.social: “Kids and Tech: How to Tell Fact From Fiction”
connectedlearning.news/kids-tech-d59
#TeenMentalHealth
#YouthVoice
connectedlearning.news/kids-tech-d59
#TeenMentalHealth
#YouthVoice
We’re HUGE advocates for teen programs backed by public libraries, no matter how big or small. 🫂 Check out our 2 reports and resource site providing practical recommendations to engage teens effectively and strategic frameworks to enhance teen services in libraries. connectedlearning.news/cla071524
March 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
We’re HUGE advocates for teen programs backed by public libraries, no matter how big or small. 🫂 Check out our 2 reports and resource site providing practical recommendations to engage teens effectively and strategic frameworks to enhance teen services in libraries. connectedlearning.news/cla071524
🆕 in #ConnectedLearning — Children’s Wellbeing in a Digital World 2025 report; empowering the IDD community through esports; a student explains how educators can adapt to AI and more from the latest CLA #Newsletter: connectedlearning.news/Vol255
March 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
🆕 in #ConnectedLearning — Children’s Wellbeing in a Digital World 2025 report; empowering the IDD community through esports; a student explains how educators can adapt to AI and more from the latest CLA #Newsletter: connectedlearning.news/Vol255
✨NEW✨Making Connections Case Study featuring STEM programming at Boys & Girls Clubs of Garden Grove! In the case study, we spotlight BGCGG’s mentorship model as well as the key problems of practice around strategic needs for youth-centered program development.
connectedlearning.news/MakingConnec...
connectedlearning.news/MakingConnec...
March 12, 2025 at 9:21 PM
✨NEW✨Making Connections Case Study featuring STEM programming at Boys & Girls Clubs of Garden Grove! In the case study, we spotlight BGCGG’s mentorship model as well as the key problems of practice around strategic needs for youth-centered program development.
connectedlearning.news/MakingConnec...
connectedlearning.news/MakingConnec...