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About Q2L | Quest to Learn
Quest to Learn supports all students in the pursuit of academic excellence, social responsibility, respect for others, and a passion for lifelong learning. The school is committed to seeing every student achieve the excellence required for college and career, and enabling every student to develop the skills and habits of mind needed to navigate successfully today's increasingly complex, information-rich global world. Quest to Learn supports a uniquely vibrant learning community that brings together students, educators, game designers, curriculum specialists and parents. This community is committed to student success with a singular focus, but also recognizes that student success ultimately depends on the commitment of each and every community member to his or her own continuous learning and participation. The learning community Quest to Learn supports extends far beyond the walls of the school, deep into the cultural fabric of the New York City, and beyond, across the globe.
Howard Rheingold | Exploring mind amplifiers since 1964
Teach the Web
Week 9: #teachtheweb #4life MAKE Project this week: Become a Webmaker Mentor. Create a portfolio of your Teach the Web work and apply for the Webmaker Mentor Badge. Include your posts to the #teachtheweb community, event documentation and notes on how you will continue to teach the web. more → Week 8: Make it Real MAKE Project this week: Make an invitation for the people you care about to explore the web with you. Week 7: Playtesting MAKE Project this week: Try out your activities from last week on friends, family members or group of learners, then create a make (or several makes) that reflects on that experience. Week 6: Peers Working in the Open MAKE Project this week: Use remix as a form of constructive criticism. Week 5: Webmaking as Learning MAKE Project this week: Use your learning goals from last week as the basis for an activity or resource. Week 4: Add the Web to Anything Week 3: the Open Web Plan your makes with your collaborator and then do it! Week 2: Connected Learning in Practice
Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator
10/15/12 - $798,400 for 15 NYC Projects Give Teens Digital Tools
Contact: Ani Hurwitz, VP, Communications 212.686.0010 x224 | afh@nyct-cfi.org nycommunitytrust.org | @nycommtrust $798,400 for 15 NYC Projects Give Teens Digital Tools The Hive Digital Media Learning Fund was started by the MacArthur Foundation and The New York Community Trust in 2010 so that, together, educators and young people can design new and exciting ways to learn, create, and participate beyond the classroom. In addition to MacArthur and The Trust, donors include the Joan Ganz Cooney and Beth M. Uffner funds in The Trust, Renate, Hans, and Maria Hofmann Trust, the Mozilla Foundation, and the David Rockefeller Fund. The following grants were made in October 2012: Downtown Community Television, $18,900 for Young Women Speak Out, a youth-produced website where girls make, share, and respond to media about issues that affect them. Parsons the New School for Design, $39,000 for gadgITERATION, a program that teaches fashion design and technology skills to middle school students.
danah boyd | apophenia
Like everyone who cares about Crisis Text Line and the people we serve, I have spent the last few days reflecting on recent critiques about the organization’s practices. Having spent my career thinking about and grappling with tech ethics and privacy issues, I knew that – had I not been privy to the details and context that I know – I would be outraged by what folks heard this weekend. I would be doing what many of my friends and colleagues are doing, voicing anger and disgust. But as a founding board member of Crisis Text Line, who served as board chair from June 2020 until the beginning of January 2021, I also have additional information that shaped how I thought about these matters and informed my actions and votes over the last eight years. As a director, I am currently working with others on the board and in the organization to chart a path forward. Texters come to us in their darkest moments. First: Why data? Storing data immediately prompted three key questions: I’m a scholar. 1.
John Seely Brown: Chief of Confusion
