Spotlight on Digital Youth Network
Digital Youth Network (DYN) is a digital literacy program that leverages new media and technology (including robotics, digital media and design tools) to improve social and academic outcomes for urban youth at The University of Chicago Charter School campuses.
Due to its success, DYN will expand to New York City in 2009.
Featured by the George Lucas Foundation on edutopia.org:
Digital Youth Portrait: Jalen
In school, at home, and in the Digital Youth Network, Jalen thrives as an artist, animator, and digital-media creator.
http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-profile-jalen-video
Digital Media Empower Youth
Both in the classroom and in after-school pods, students learn to become critical creators in Chicago's Digital Youth Network. On Remix World, the program's social-networking site, participants share, critique, and discuss their work.
http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-youth-network-video
Kids Create--and Critique--on Social Networks
A digital literacy program encourages kids to remake social networking in the image of learning.
http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-youth-network-literacy
