[YL] YouthLearn Newsletter, Issue 142

Tue Oct 14 14:21:41 EDT 2008

YouthLearn
Newsletter, Issue 142 - October 14, 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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News 

On the way: Nation's first tech-literacy exam
"For the first time ever, technological literacy will become part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nation's Report Card, the test's governing board has announced. Beginning in 2012, the test will measure students' proficiency with technology in addition to reading, math, science, history, writing, and other subjects. The new test will mark the first time students' technology literacy has been assessed on a national level. The National Assessment Governing Board has awarded a $1.86 million contract to WestEd-a nonprofit educational research, development, and service agency based in San Francisco-to develop the 2012 NAEP Technological Literacy Framework.... Several groups will help WestEd on this 18-month project, including ISTE, the Council of Chief State School Officers, the International Technology Education Association, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and the State Educational Technology Directors Association."
URL: http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/index.cfm?i=55483 <http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/index.cfm?i=55483> 

The Community Agenda for America's Public Schools
"On September 24, the Coalition for Community Schools launched an action plan with specific strategies to underscore the need for community-school partnerships in ensuring that all children are ready to learn and succeed. The plan is endorsed by numerous national and local education, youth development, community engagement, health and social services organizations."
URL: http://www.thecommunityagenda.org/ <http://www.thecommunityagenda.org/> 
Referred by: Connect for Kids

Technology Makes Art Education a Bigger Draw
"In art, as in life at large, technology has changed everything - or, more precisely, almost everything. In art classes at schools and universities today, new and emerging software is rendering art appreciation and even actual artistic production accessible to a far greater number of interested students and aspiring artists than ever before.... With the rise of technology in art education, some might fear that traditional media, such as charcoal drawing and oil painting, are being shunted aside in favor of software-based creations, but the art educators who spoke with eSchool News said certain software programs and emerging web-based collaborations are helping establish a strong base of conceptual understanding--regardless of raw manual or technical talent. This enables a far wider range of students to appreciate art. It also encourages and facilitates the acquisition of more advanced, traditional techniques and skills by far more talented beginners."
URL: http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/related-top-news/index.cfm?i=55283 <http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/related-top-news/index.cfm?i=55283> 

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Funding 

National Child Labor Committee Invites Nominations for Service to Children Awards
"The National Child Labor Committee, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to defending the rights of children in the workplace and fighting for universal education, invites nominations of individuals for the 2009 Lewis Hine Awards for Service to Children and Youth. These nationally recognized awards, now in their 24th year, are presented annually by NCLC to ten recipients - five professionals and five volunteers - for their unheralded and exceptional service to young people. The awards seek to identify not the one-time hero, but the individual who has made a commitment to the well-being, growth, and development of youth.... NCLC will bring the awardees to New York City for a media-covered ceremony where their outstanding public service will be recognized and each will receive an award of $1,000." Deadline: October 23, 2008
URL: http://www.nationalchildlabor.org/ <http://www.nationalchildlabor.org/> 
Referred by: Foundation Center

<http://www.sedl.org/cgi-bin/mysql/afterschool/technology.cgi?resource=6> 

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Research 

Promising Practices in Working with Young Adults
"This booklet, from the Youth Development Institute, offers ways in which partnerships between schools and community organizations can support education/training and opportunities for young adults who have dropped out of high school. It describes specific practices and program models."
URL: http://www.ydinstitute.org/resources/publications/PromisingPractices.pdf <http://www.ydinstitute.org/resources/publications/PromisingPractices.pdf> 
Referred by: Connect for Kids

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Activities 

Journey North - Online and Offline Activities
Journey North is a free inquiry science program for young people providing multiple pathways to explore wildlife migration and seasonal changes around the world. It is one of the resources highlighted in the recently launched Technology Curriculum Database, developed by YouthLearn for the U.S. Department of Education-funded National Partnership for Quality Afterschool Learning at SEDL. Educators have their choice of standards-based lesson plans detailing a wide range of online and offline activities, and the Web site disseminates a wealth of information geared at helping youth make local observations that can inform global knowledge. Enlisting international participation, the resource involves hundreds of thousands of youth in the research and observation of migratory wildlife, such as butterflies and whooping cranes. 
URL: http://www.sedl.org/cgi-bin/mysql/afterschool/technology.cgi?resource=12 <http://www.sedl.org/cgi-bin/mysql/afterschool/technology.cgi?resource=12> 

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