Using Participatory Media to Engage
Youth with Challenging Content
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Contact Info:
Cathy Arreguin:  cathyarreguin@mac.com
Kelly Czarnecki: kczarnecki@cmlibrary.org
Amira Fouad: amira@globalkids.org
Barry Joseph: barry@globalkids.org
Beth Wellman: wellman.beth@gmail.com
Cathy Arreguin
Kelly Czarnecki
Amira Fouad
Barry Joseph
Beth Wellman
Digital Media & 
Learning Conference
February 2010
Science through Second Life
Breaking Boundaries 
with Virtual Worlds
- A Science Class and a Teen Jail - 
StSL
uCreate
Dream It Do It
The Edge Project
StSL
Skype
Comic Life
Second Life
Blogs
1) Take out a pen & paper
2) Make a short list of the places you learn
3) Draft a visual map of the places you learn
4) Take pride in your work
"Last night i stayed up to watch to watch a program on the national geographic chanell called "The Human Footprint"and it was talking about the "human foot" print it showed through examples and numbers how much resources the average american uses through out there life time and the numbers where first suprising but when i thought about it ,it all added up."
The scientist in me - "If I was a scientist and i was investigating an ecological problem in the enviroment i would start in my community and observe any problem that i see. After i make my observations i will take action in solving the problems."
Students’ confidence in their abilities to do science-related work increased.

Compared to the traditional science curriculum, the number of students reporting being overwhelmed by science class fell by 50%

Male students visited course-related websites such as science websites and sites related to SL, etc. significantly more than female students did (t = 1.209, p< 0.005)

Female students took significantly more snapshots (n=31.1) with their avatar in the pictures than male students did, which was 17.4 in average (t = 2.957, p<0.05)
1) How do educators navigate the disruptive force of new media in education, both at an institutional and a personal level? How do the different cultures and pedagogies of civic and cultural institutions engender different responses?

2) In what ways do youth bring learning into digital youth media programs at civic and cultural institutions from other nodes, how do they perceive the ecology created (if at all) and their roles within it, and what can digital media afford them to make better sense of it all?

3) How does an educational program leveraging new media allow greater affordances for youth to draw upon their learning from across their distributed learning network?

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