[YL] YouthLearn Newsletter, Issue 128

Thu Mar 13 14:12:42 EST 2008

YouthLearn
Newsletter, Issue 128 - March 13, 2008

The YouthLearn Newsletter compiles the latest entries to the YouthLearn News Blog. This innovative service to the YouthLearn community highlights youth, education, and technology news, tools, and resources. We hope this assists you in your important work. Please feel free to share this resource with friends and colleagues, and visit the News Blog often! http://news.youthlearn.org <http://news.youthlearn.org/> 

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YouthLearn Updates 

New Afterschool Resources Compiled by YouthLearn Team
For the past several months, the YouthLearn team has been busy at work on two projects in particular that will bring new resources to the attention of afterschool educators. Please look for announcements about these exciting resources in the next few weeks! And thank you for your patience during the recent hiatus in the publishing of the YouthLearn Newsletter. Future issues will come out on every other Tuesday as usual. 

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News 

Happy Arts Education Month
In honor of Arts Education Month, "Keep Arts in Schools has released a new set of tools that enables advocates to voice their support. The resources also help educators and organizations take effective steps toward ensuring every child gets the well rounded, quality education they deserve."
URL: http://www.keepartsinschools.org/Advocacy_Day/index.php <http://www.keepartsinschools.org/Advocacy_Day/index.php> 
Referred by: PEN Weekly NewsBlast

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Funding 

Youth Invited to Create Short Films for FYI - Film Your Issue Global Competition
"USA Today, the United Nations, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and other organizations and media leaders have joined forces to engage young adults (14-24) in contributing to the public dialogue on pressing social issues using the power of the Internet and user-generated content. In its 4th year, FYI - Film Your Issue has grown into a global Internet-based competition that invites high school and college students in the United States and around the world to express themselves on pressing contemporary issues by creating and uploading short two-minute films on issues that impact them and their generation." Deadline: April 14, 2008.
URL: http://www.filmyourissue.com/index.shtml <http://www.filmyourissue.com/index.shtml> 
Referred by: Foundation Center

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Resources 

Community-Based Fact Sheets - Service-Learning Resources
Added to a collection of community-based resources are "four fact sheets that Search Institute created for the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse as part of our role of program advisor for community-based service-learning. Each fact sheet has a Web version (which is longer) and a print version (which is 2 pages long only). The topics are: Developmental Assets: A Framework for Enriching Service-Learning; Benefits of Community-Based Service-Learning; Service-Learning with Disadvantaged Youth; Developing Partnerships for Service-Learning: Starting Points for Community-Based Organizations." 
URL: http://www.servicelearning.org/instant_info/fact_sheets/cb_facts/ <http://www.servicelearning.org/instant_info/fact_sheets/cb_facts/> 
Referred by: HCHY List: Resources on assets and service-learning

"Growing Up Online" Film and Teacher's Guide
A "provocative new documentary produced by PBS Frontline... delves deep into adolescent online behavior since teens are spending a lot of time interacting with others via digital media. Viewing and discussing this engaging film with your students is a good start-and it's available online. Kelly Mendoza and Renee Hobbs recently created the Teacher's Guide which provides a wealth of resources to use in the classroom or at home to help kids and parents understand what it means to 'grow up online.' Here's a sampling of what's available: Quiz for parents and caregivers: What kind of cyber guide are you? Lesson plan: How did Myspace become your space? Activity: The disconnection experiment"
URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/teach/kidsonline/ <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/teach/kidsonline/> 
Referred by: Media Education Lab

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Activities 

Video game: Using science to save an imperiled world
"A new, free 3-D video game is meant to supplement science education by asking players to work in small teams or individually to save a planet approaching ecological disaster. The IBM game, 'PowerUp,' is a free download accompanied by lesson plans."
URL: http://www.powerupthegame.org/home.html <http://www.powerupthegame.org/home.html> 
Referred by: ASCD SmartBrief

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