[YL] "Youth & Media ² -- New Section on YouthLearn Website

[Tony Streit]

Dear YouthLearn members,

As we¹ve observed on our list and in your discussions time and again, you
can¹t look at youth and technology today without thinking about media
making.  Today¹s young people are consuming and making media in multiple
forms and with a range of new multimedia tools, and educators are looking
for new ways to support this creative expression and foster new literacy.
The youth media movement, which for some 35 years has illustrated how best
to guide media education and promote youth voice, has much to teach the
broader education community, and here at YouthLearn, we¹re making a
concerted effort to bring about this sharing of lessons learned.

That said, I¹m thrilled to share a new section of our website, ³Youth &
Media: Exploring Media Making & Positive Youth Development.²  You can find
it via a link on our homepage or at http://www.youthlearn.org/youthmedia.
Here you¹ll find new information about our approach to media making and a
wealth of resources available online to support you in launching similar
efforts.  Of particular interest is our work over the last few years to
improve the evaluation of youth media programs and their intended outcomes.
YouthLearn has been working with Time Warner, Inc. and their community-based
youth media grantees to examine and strengthen evaluation practices and
better articulate the unique impact these programs have on young people.
Here you¹ll discover a variety of stories and findings from leaders in the
youth media field and lessons learned that can inform other youth media and
technology programs. From basic information about evaluation to samples of
youth-produced media, this section will provide you field-based examples of
how to assess the effectiveness of your programs and foster new media making
skills.

YouthLearn¹s effort to support educators in youth media making practices is
on-going. Please feel free to share with us your feedback, suggestions, and
questions on the content of this section.  Your input will inform our
services and our future efforts to support youth media making in your
programs and schools.

Best,

Tony


Tony Streit
Director, The YouthLearn Initiative
Education Development Center, Inc.
55 Chapel Street, Newton, MA 02458
Phone 617.618.2778  Fax 617.332.4318
http://www.youthlearn.org
tstreit at edc.org 



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