Youth and Media at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

06/25/2020

As youth grow up interacting online where the boundaries between leisure, play, and work blur, what are the challenges and opportunities they face?

Learn more in our new report here: https://cyber.harvard.edu/publication/2020/youth-and-digital-economy

By Andres Lombana Bermudez, Sandra Clio Cortesi, Christian Fieseler, Urs Gasser, Alexa Hasse, Gemma Newlands, and Sarah Wu.

A collaborative project between YaM at Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the Nordic Centre for Internet and Society.

03/30/2020

¡Comparte tu opinión con nosotros! https://bit.ly/2xm5aks

03/30/2020

Help us incorporate youth perspectives in
decision-making processes, and in our educational efforts! Every voice counts!

Survey in English: http://bit.ly/2whSdHH
Encuesta en español: https://bit.ly/2xm5aks
Enquête en français: https://bit.ly/33JJzOL

03/09/2020

Looking for young people ages 12-18 to fill out a survey (it takes 15-20 minutes but every single entry will be extremely appreciated)! http://bit.ly/2whSdHH

The survey, created by colleagues in the UN system, will help organizations better understand how to develop programs (e.g., internships, advisory boards, co-design groups) that youth find valuable and exciting.

PLEASE participate and encourage others to participate!

05/31/2019

Check out our new piece aimed at better understanding how young people engage with technologies! Read more https://cyber.harvard.edu/publication/2019/youth-and-artificial-intelligence/where-we-stand to explore initial emerging questions at the intersection of youth and AI in domains including education, privacy and safety, and creativity and entertainment.

11/11/2017

We had fun sharing sneak peeks from our Digital Citizenship Playlists for ! What you saw this week was in demo form-- stay tuned for the upcoming launch of the final product!

11/10/2017

micro-lesson from a sneak preview of our Digital Citizenship Playlist #4, "Change the World": empower learners to build a tool-kit for transforming their communities, including using digital media & pop culture to help drive change.
Visit the playlist (in demo mode) on the LRNG platform to learn & play around some more!

We all have things that we would like to change in our communities. Maybe the bus near our house doesn’t come often enough. Maybe our schools don’t do enough to address issues that are important in our lives. Maybe the local grocery store doesn’t sell ingredients that are necessary for the kinds of…

11/10/2017

micro-lesson from a sneak preview of our Digital Citizenship Playlist #3 on "Licensing for Digital Creators": when you parody a work, you modify it in an exaggerated way to make fun of it-- but the fair use protection you may enjoy under copyright law is no laughing matter!
Visit the playlist (in demo mode) on the LRNG platform to learn & play around some more!

Digital technologies give us many cool ways to create content. Whether we are writing code for a program that solves a problem or designing a mash-up of cheesy music videos, these technologies provide awesome ways to express ourselves and pursue our interests. But, with great power to create also co...

11/08/2017

micro-lesson from a sneak preview of our Digital Citizenship Playlist #2 on "The Power of Resumes": Encourage students to self-reflect: "list the four most memorable experiences of your life that you have had in each category: 1) happy, 2) sad, 3) silly, and 4) serious. Then, think about how these experiences have shaped the ways you think about the future that you want for yourself. How have they impacted your ambitions? Your goals?"
Visit the playlist (in demo mode) on the LRNG platform to learn & play around some more!

We are all unique. Some of us can speak multiple languages. Others are great musicians who can play songs that move people. Still others are experts at Words with Friends or Sudoku. Not only do these skills and experiences make our lives fun and interesting, but they also may prove appealing to empl...

11/07/2017

micro-lesson from a sneak preview of our Digital Citizenship Playlist #1 on "Building and Protecting Your Online Presence": Encourage students to talk data privacy. Here's one prompt for teens to try: "After examining your privacy settings, talk to a friend about these settings. Why do you each of you have your privacy settings the way that you have them? Are privacy settings sometimes situational (e.g., certain settings are appropriate in one case but not necessary in another)?"
Visit the full playlist (in demo mode) on the LRNG platform to learn & play around some more!

When you share information online, do you sometimes think about where this information is going, and who might be seeing it? What is the information that you share being used for? You have options for managing who sees your information and how it is used. Whether it’s friends, friends of friends, st...

11/06/2017

We are excited to be participating in National Media Literacy Week again this year! All this week, we will be sharing micro-lessons from our forthcoming Digital Citizenship Learning Playlists, co-designed with with youth from the Boston area (ranging in age from 12 to 18). Follow us for these sneak previews!

The Youth and Media team, in collaboration with youth from the Boston area (ranging in age from 12 to 18), co-designed four digital citizenship learning playlists: Building and Protecting Your Onli…

10/20/2017

The Student Privacy, Equity, and Digital Literacy Newsletter is back from hiatus! Read more about Scratch with Berkman Klein Center fellow Andres Lombana-Bermudez, recent Federal Trade Commission action, the Future of Privacy Forum, and more! https://tinyletter.com/spi