Educator Innovator

"Connected Learning TV" (http://connectedlearning.tv) is a webinar series with organizations, projects, and individuals who align with the Connected Learning vision. In this May 29, 2014 episode, we chat with some of the folks behind Pittsburgh's 2014 City of Learning program. Check out the full recap at http://bit.ly/1wf1AOs, and check out RemakeLearning.org for more info about Pittsburgh's City of Learning initiative.

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, Howard Rheingold - author, virtual community pioneer, and self-described "online instigator & expert learner" - chats with us about the need for an education system "upgrade," and the importance of teachers being "co-learners" with their students. You are welcome to connect with him on Twitter via @hrheingold. To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, Maria Teresa Kumar - Founding President and CEO of Voto Latino (a nonpartisan organization that empowers Latino Millennials to claim a better future for themselves and their community) - shares the vision of Voto Latino and its newly launched Innovator Challenge. To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, Dale Dougherty - Founder, President & CEO of Maker Media (the creators of MAKE Magazine and Maker Faire) - chats with us about the potential of the Maker Movement, and the importance of hands-on, production-centered learning. To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, Mimi Ito - Research Director of the Digital Media and Learning Hub, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Chair in Digital Media and Learning - chats with us about the research origins of Connected Learning, and the need for a focus on equity. To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, Janelle Bence - a high school teacher in Dallas and active member of the North Star of Texas Writing Project - chats with us about encouraging civic engagement among her students, and openly networked learning. To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, "Brother Mike" Hawkins - YOUmedia Coordinator/Lead Mentor for Digital Youth Network - chats with us about the power of mentorship, and the importance of Arts in K-12 education. "If you can make the learning meaningful--where that's what gets a young person out of bed in the morning--that's the kind of redefinition of the learning experience that we want to push and amplify." To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, Carina Wong - Deputy Director for Education at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - chats with us about "the power of networks," and lessons learned from the Gates Foundation investment in education. To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org

"Connected Learning TV" (http://connectedlearning.tv) is a webinar series with organizations, projects, and individuals who align with the Connected Learning vision. In this May 23, 2014 episode, we chat with some of the folks behind L.A.'s 2014 'Summer of Learning' program. Check out the full recap at http://bit.ly/1lQhbx1, and visit http://summeroflearning.la for more info about Los Angeles's Summer of Learning initiative.

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, Sam Dyson - director of the Hive Chicago Learning Network, a MacArthur-funded initiative operated by the Mozilla Foundation to enact connected learning through engaging teen programs - chats with us about what the future of equitable, interest-driven learning might look like. To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, Philipp Schmidt - open learning activist, and Executive Director of Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) - shares his insights on how peer-to-peer learning and open learning benefits "young learners of all ages." To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, Dominique James - a 19-year-old poet, performance artist, and self-published author - chats with us about her personal connected learning experiences in, and as a result of, her time in Chicago's YOUmedia programs. To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, Kris Gutiérrez - Principal Investigator within the Connected Learning Research Network, and Professor of Literacy & Learning Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder - chats with us about the notions of pursuing "horizontal expertise" and "learning as movement across environments." To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, Larissa Pahomov - an English Teacher at Philadelphia's Science Leadership Academy - chats with us about the challenges and rewards of an inquiry-driven, project-based classroom. To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, Akili Lee - Co-Founder of the Digital Youth Network (a hybrid digital literacy organization) - chats with us about helping students build on their personal interests and bridge between learning experiences outside of school and learning within school. To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, Joe Kahne - Chair of the Digital Media & Learning Research Hub's Youth & Participatory Politics (YPP) Research Network, and the John & Martha Davidson Professor of Education at Mills College - shares his thoughts on ensuring youth are prepared to be engaged citizens. To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, Jaleesa Trapp - a former alumni of, and now Program Coordinator for Intel's Computer Clubhouse Network - chats with us about making education more engaging and interactive. To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, Jennifer Woollven - a Professional Development specialist focusing on educational technology - chats with us about the links between project-based learning and Connected Learning, and how to move beyond a standardized testing mindset in schools. To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, we chat with Buffy Hamilton - better known online as 'The Unquiet Librarian' - about how libraries are uniquely poised to be great environments for Connected Learning. To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, David Theo Goldberg - head of the University of California Humanities Research Institute, and co-founder of the scholar network HASTAC - about the challenges higher education faces in engaging learners, as well as the spirit behind the Reclaim Open Learning initiative. To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org