[DDN] Teen Digital Media Dialogues

[Rafi Santo]

This April, Global Kids will conduct a series of engaging online 
dialogues about teens and digital media.  Students and teachers can 
register now at www.FocusOnDigitalMedia.com, and we encourage you to 
register soon since space is limited.

As part of the MacArthur Foundation's major initiative on Digital 
Media and Learning, these short-term dialogues will support the 
inclusion of youth voices into the work of practitioners, researchers 
and policy makers that are thinking deeply about the role digital 
media is playing in the lives of today's youth.

Groups of 75 teens will be organized into groups that last for three 
weeks.  They will address content provided by our partner, the 
NewsHour EXTRA, the online youth presence of the NewsHour with Jim 
Lehrer, as well as content developed by Global Kids youth leaders and 
the dialogue participants themselves.

The 200 top participants will receive up to $50 for their 
involvement, rewarding those that contribute the most to the 
dialogues.

If you're an educator working with teens and technology, as some of 
you are, this is a perfect opportunity to have your students engage 
in a meta-process about these issues with other young people from 
around the world.

We've set up curriculum that educators can use in the classroom, as 
well as flyers if you want to promote the dialogues in schools.  As 
an incentive, 200 of the top contributors to the dialogues can get up 
to $50.  There is one week left for registration, so be sure to sign 
up now!

Check it out at: www.FocusOnDigitalMedia.org, and visit the teachers 
lounge, where you can find curriculum and other educator tools.

If you have any questions, feel free to email me off-list at 
Digitalmedia at globalkids.org.

Rafi

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Rafi Santo
Program Associate
Online Leadership Program
Global Kids
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