Principal Investigators:
Alex Halavais and Jason Schultz
Contact:
Alex Halavais
Description:
Research in DML presents new methodological opportunities and challenges. Research in the area often involves young subjects, new communication technologies, and the sharing of sensitive data, all of which make the Institutional Review Board process difficult. These two workshops aim to find solutions that will enable more effective IRB processes.
Excellent work is now emerging around mobile and learning, but it is often disconnected from investigations into mobile for social change. We ask: should these two investigations be better joined? Our goal is to catalyze scholarship by gathering leaders from two communities to generate a series of provocations for the field at large.
Principal Investigators:
David Theo Goldberg, Mimi Ito and Bill Maurer
Contact:
Mimi Ito
Description:
The Workshop on Networking Knowledge is a conjoint initiative by UCHRI, the MacArthur Research Hub on Digital Media and Learning, and the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion. The Workshop hosts ongoing meetings to address common themes in the impact of digital technology, new media, and networking practices on knowledge formation, circulation, transformation, and their implications across various domains. Workshops serve as a site for discussions of significant current and emerging work across these areas of interest.
We believe there remains a shortage of serious thinking and research on innovative classroom pedagogies that leverage, build upon, and cultivate the collaborative forms of interactive, non-hierarchical peer-to-peer learning that students today engage in online, in social networks, in game play, and in various do-it-yourself co-developed media.
This workshop will bring together representatives of major stakeholder organizations to consider the policy implications of the rapid growth in the use of mobile devices and social media applications by school age youth. Our goal is to develop a policy development resource pertaining to school’s Acceptable Use Policies (AUP).
Participants in this workshop will collaborate on a policy resource for educational leaders and policymakers. Organizational representative will be asked to explore endorsement and to assist in dissemination of the final product.
The Joan Ganz Cooney Center and the LIFE Center convened a meeting of twenty-two researchers and media producers for a daylong workshop to define “The New Coviewing: Promoting Children’s Learning through Joint Media Engagement.” The workshop, held at Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy, brought together a diverse group of learning scientists, developmentalists, communication scholars, and media producers to discuss shared uses of media between children and their parents, teachers, siblings, and friends.
