#ConnectedLearning

A growing network of individuals & organizations working to promote equity, access & opportunity for all learners.

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We are now on BlueSky as The Connected Learning Lab! 🦋 Moving forward, we’re only posting major CLA / CLL updates on this X account, so please follow us on…

1️⃣ BlueSky - https://t.co/nESVEjfNzp
2️⃣ LinkedIn - https://t.co/a5BRcmcQf7

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With the pressure and changing landscape of education, how can we commit to equity and support the next generation of scholars and young people? 🎓

✨ICYMI✨ Our most recent edition of Kaleidoscope moves beyond the conventional frame with Kris Gutiérrez: https://t.co/9EGNRNMwA6

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🌠 We’re wrapping up June with our monthly newsletter, full of insights, events, and opportunities!

📨 Read it now: https://t.co/M8rTkBdp5B

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 - Q&A with Kris Gutiérrez on what needs to follow the DEI backlash; Play Make Learn conference and more…!

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Equity work⚖ is under real pressure, and the field is splintering — some quietly dropping terms like diversity, equity, and inclusion… others holding on despite the backlash. Where do we go from here?

🚨 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐐&𝐀 𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐑𝐓 with Kris Gutiérrez👇
https://t.co/9EGNRNMwA6

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SO THRILLED to share with our #ConnectedLearning community, a new and beautifully hand-drawn children's show that centers the lived experiences of Black children as main characters.

✨ Watch Stuntboy, the Animated Mixtape: https://t.co/HUWgReAXoE

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✨ ICYMI ✨ Q&A spotlights @ConnectedCamps co-founder and UC Irvine researcher + professor Katie Salen. She believes online play deserves a diversity of options that cater for specific communities of young people— just like how physical playgrounds do! https://t.co/HaIeS2WRdq

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Your monthly #ConnectedLearning goodies🍬 are in!

Get our round up of insights, opportunities, events, and what’s new with the Connected Learning Alliance in the latest volume of our newsletter: https://t.co/2Ab4XjJ94a

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Tweens need to play. 🪁🤸‍♀️ Not consume, not scroll… they need to play 𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 — in spaces designed for who they are right now.

✨ JUST PUBLISHED: the 3rd edition of Kaleidoscope featuring Katie Salen Tekinbaş! https://t.co/HaIeS2WRdq

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✨NEW✨ from the @NDPotential, a recap of their webinar last fall with on amplifying support for neurodivergent students in higher education settings.

🔗 https://t.co/9ye8P2eQob (English Version available after Japanese Text)

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✨ NEW REPORT on “𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗢𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀”! 🏝💙

These spaces, whether they’re in games like Minecraft or media fandoms like the BTS army, function as refuges for neurodivergent young people.

Our new report: https://t.co/PI4ldSoFqF
Blog: https://t.co/nzHxHlBa1m

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✨ Our latest guide focuses on one of the core functions of OSTIs—coordinating between programs and organizations—and the impact these activities have on recruitment and retention of young people. https://t.co/N6lhUSUwWs

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�� Announcing our NEW guide on out-of-school time (OST) programs that focuses on the often-overlooked role of out-of-school time intermediaries (OSTIs) in strengthening coordination and connection.

Read our write-up in the latest CLA Blog: https://t.co/wbnatysBEd

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✨ ICYMI ✨ ~ Our new Q&A series, Kaleidoscope, spotlights Hopelab CEO Jaspal Sandhu. He argues we need to start somewhere else instead of “what’s wrong” with youth mental health — and young people have the power, vision, and imagination to know where. https://t.co/GyqlFwhOgC

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📥 Volume 271 of our #ConnectedLearning newsletter is now hitting the inbox!

The goodies? New Q&A with Hopelab CEO Jaspal Sandhu, plus the latest insights, opportunities, and events from our feed.

🔗https://t.co/WhAi9lCcXv

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”This is the impossible position teachers are in: having to make consequential decisions about AI integration without shared norms, adequate resources, or even a reliable definition of what kind of thing AI is supposed to be.”

👩🏽‍💻 New CLA Blog: https://t.co/mHYgjhqkcc

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💬From youth voice to youth power✊ When youth mental health is organized around crisis, deficit thinking is all you can see.

✨OUT NOW: The latest edition of Kaleidoscope Q&A with @Hopelab’s Jaspal Sandhu — sharing power with youth changes the narrative: https://t.co/GyqlFwhOgC

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New from the #ConnectedLearning community and containing essential research insights, critical perspectives, and design frameworks supportive of youth well-being in a technology-rich world from 40 contributors — Youth Well-Being by Design is now out! 🔥 https://t.co/wCDA0CaCua

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NEW 📔 collection takes into account of teen’s varying experiences with tech and spotlights the true drivers of stress and disconnection in young people’s lives.

✨ Get insights directly from the authors, @mizuko + Carrie James in the latest: https://t.co/wCDA0CaCua

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For game designers, researchers - or educators and students who are PASSIONATE about games🎮🕹🎲 - the Meaningful Play Conference 2026 is happening in October 13-15 in Pittsburgh!

They’re still accepting papers, games, talks, and poster sessions.

🔗 https://t.co/h8wRx3AzBW

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✨ ICYMI ✨ ~ In the first edition for our NEW Q&A series on LinkedIn, we dove into the hot-button issue at the forefront of edtech and education with Amanda Third: social media regulation and the research surrounding children’s digital practices.

https://t.co/ZNXB2w9HJ3

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NEW Q&A 🗣️📢 ~ an in-depth interview with Amanda Third on the new Australian law banning kids from social media.

”The problem, as I see it, is thus a failure of imagination.”

💬 Don’t forget to subscribe to Kaleidoscope, our new Q&A series on LinkedIn!
https://t.co/ZNXB2w9HJ3