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Ubiquitous Learning

How Technology Is Expanding Learning Opportunities In U.S. Homes, Schools, and Communities

  • YouthLearn

    While he was directing Street-Level, a youth media organization in Chicago, Tony Streit heard a common response when he showed youth-made films to adult audiences. “People were always asking me, ‘Did kids really make this?’ I’d say, ‘Of course, but they never would have made it without my involvement. They didn’t know anything about making a film, so I taught them how to do that. But they were the experts on their interests and their issues—so we needed each other.’ For me, the process and the relationships I developed

  • The America Connects Consortium

    Over the 20-year-history of community technology centers (CTCs), impact has tended to be measured in one way: Is anybody here? CTCs were established to provide technology access—and by extension, new opportunities for learning and skill development—to people who didn’t have computers at home or at work.

  • AT&T Young Leaders Program

    For EDC Senior Vice President Vivian Guilfoy, who has spent more than a decade working in the fields of community technology and youth development, one of the signs of progress is a blurring of boundaries. “The days of distinction between formal and informal education have come to an end,” says Guilfoy, director of EDC’s Center for Education, Employment, and Community (CEEC).

  • Home-School Study

    The home environments of young people can profoundly influence how they come to use and understand technology.

  • At the Intersection of School and Work

    Educators hoping to prepare young people for contemporary workplaces have always struggled with the challenge of a moving target. And the target is moving increasingly faster—thanks to the impact technology is having on nearly every career.

  • Project Hiller

    The story of Project Hiller, a laptop initiative launched three years ago at Union Hill High School in New Jersey, is a story of educational vision, effective use of technology, and proven academic improvement.

  • The Maine Learning Technology Initiative

    When Maine Governor Angus King first proposed last year to provide a laptop computer to every middle school student, many educational technology experts considered it to be a courageous experiment, but were concerned that it put the cart before the horse—that technology would drive, rather than serve, educational practices.