Libraries play a central role in connected learning
Libraries play a central role in connected learning
- October 21, 2013
- Mizuko “Mimi” Ito, anthropology and informatics professor and current John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Chair in Digital Media and Learning, is quoted in the Digital Shift October 21, 2013
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From the Digital Shift:
The Internet offers today’s youth unprecedented opportunities to connect with peers
and seek knowledge in almost any area of interest – and libraries are uniquely positioned
to play a central role in this learning, according to Mimi Ito, professor and cultural
anthropologist at the University of California, Irvine, and principal investigator
for Connected Learning, a new education model funded by the MacArthur Foundation’s
Digital Media and Learning Initiative. “As educators we can do much more in supporting,
navigating, and curating this for young people,” she told attendees during “Libraries
and Connected Learning,” her inspirational closing keynote address of The Digital
Shift: Reinventing Libraries webcast on October 16.
For the full story, please visit http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2013/10/k-12/libraries-play-a-central-rol....
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