Mimi Ito: Translation, Triggers, and Transitions: What does it take to connect interests to achievement?

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In this week's connected learning webinar, we ask, what support can parents & educators provide young people to connect interests with school, career & politically relevant achievement?

About This Speaker:
Mizuko Ito is a cultural anthropologist of technology use, and is Professor in Residence, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Chair in Digital Media and Learning, and the Research Director of the Digital Media and Learning Hub at the University of California, Irvine.

To view an in-depth list of resources accumulated and questions posed throughout this webinar, as well as a detailed list of Google+ hangout participants, please click here.

Connectedlearning.tv's weekly webinar series features hand-selected researchers, practitioners, educators, and thought leaders from the DML field whose work relates to connected learning's principles.

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Digital Media and Learning Research Hub
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Publication Date: 
March 22, 2012