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HARVARD FAMILY RESEARCH PROJECT
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APRIL 24, 2014
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We're happy to announce the newest issue of our
FINE Newsletter, Making it Real--Connected Learning in the Digital Age.
Digital media surround children. And as access increases, so does families' desire to guide their children's use of these media. In this issue, we hear from Heather Weiss, Gregg Behr, Mizuko Ito, Marsha L. Semmel, and Katie Salen Tekinbas about the ways schools, libraries, museums, and communities can assist families as they support their children's learning through digital media.
If you have questions about children's use of digital media, we guide you to social media sites to look at how families navigate digital media to enhance children's learning. We also provide you with the latest resources in the areas of family engagement research, policy, and practice. In response to our readers' requests for information on evaluation for continuous improvement, we present a comprehensive list of resources on this topic.
Thank you for joining us, and we look forward to hearing any comments you might have about this issue!
Best wishes,
Harvard Family Research Project FINE Team
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HFRP director Heather B. Weiss examines how families and others involved with children and youth can ensure that children obtain the access, supports, and opportunities that they need to get the full benefits of digital media for learning. The author stresses the importance of all children to having full and equal access to and participation with digital media-including not only the availability of hardware and broadband, but also parental and institutional guidance and scaffolding to help youth make good choices in the use of digital media. Read more...
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Guiding Families on Children's Media Use
Three experts--Gregg Behr, Mizuko Ito, and Katie Salen Tekinbas--provide a rich array of ideas related to how schools, museums, libraries , and communities can assist families as they support their children's learning through digital media use. The authors include examples to illustrate practices in which institutions partner with families to help them understand, shape, support, and share in their children's digital learning. In this way, family engagement becomes a shared responsibility for children's learning and development in a digital environment. Read more...
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Dynamic Pittsburgh! Hundreds of the city's PreK-12 educators, artists, technologists, and families are working together to remake learning.
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Through connected learning, schools, museums, and libraries are employing innovative strategies, leveraging digital media to make learning more relevant and engaging to youth, and linking the crucial spheres in a learner's life-peers, interests, and academic pursuits. Read more... | |
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Katie Salen Tekinbas outlines strategies and activities that New York City public school Quest to Learn has implemented to ensure that families are engaged in the digital learning life of students. Read more... |
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Are you interested in using social media to find out how families can navigate digital media to enhance children's learning? Start here-we guide you to organizations and individuals that bring the latest DML research into public focus! Read more... |
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What data should you give funders to show your progress on your family engagement work? What should you do with family engagement data once you gather it? Explore these and related topics with expert panelists during our live web chat on Tuesday, April 29, 2014 at 1:00 PM EDT. |
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April 2014 News
We are committed to keeping you up to date on family engagement news. The resources in this section highlight the latest tools and discussions from HFRP and review recent findings in the areas of family engagement policy, strategies, and research, along with family engagement and digital learning.. Read more...
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About Us
Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP) is a leading national organization whose purpose is to shape 21st-century education by connecting the critical areas of student learning. Our focus is on anywhere, anytime learning approaches that extend from early childhood through college and connect families, schools, out-of-school time programs, and digital media. We build strategic partnerships with policymakers, practitioners, and community leaders to generate new thinking, stimulate innovation,and promote  continuous improvement in education policy, practice, and evaluation. Our research and tools provide timely, relevant, and practical information for decision making. Addressing issues of access and equity in children's learning and identifying meaningful, effective family engagement practices that reinforce success for all children are central to our work.
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