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The Digital Generation Project
Photo credit: Chris Walsh
The Digital Generation project is a useful new site for everyone who works with young people or is interested in seeing how they use technology. Supported by the John D. and Catherine. T MacArthur Foundation and started by Edutopia, the Digital Generation Project aims to document the stories of people from Generation Now, for whom YouTube, Facebook and MySpace are as familiar as letter-writing and long-distance trunk calls once were to the older generation. It will be useful for parents to learn about and track the kind of digital tools their kids are using, for teachers to understand and utilise these tools to change the classroom and to support students in their learning, and for researchers and other institutions working with young people to get an insight into their world.
The project is US-based, but of course the insights will be valuable no matter where you are. They are also on Twitter (@EdutopiaDG). I suggest you check out some of the resources on the site to begin with, especially those here on the ‘building digital media and learning’ site, and this digital youth research from the University of California at Berkeley.
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