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YouthLearn Updates

Time to Reflect: The Youth Media Field
This article captures "recent conferences, collaborations, and venues for
professional development"--opportunities aimed at nurturing the field of
youth media. YouthLearn's current projects related to youth media are
identified in this article. "Youth media has become a bona fide field with
its own practices, philosophies, and goals:
- A collaboration between the Educational Video Center and Education
Development Center's YouthLearn Initiative to create new resources for
the field, including a peer network linking youth media educators to each
other...
- Education Development Center's YouthLearn Initiative's ongoing
research into how youth media programs evaluate their impact."
URL: http://www.ymreporter.org/archives/2005/09/looking_ingetti_1.html
Referred by: Youth Media Reporter

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News

Webcast tackles IT gender gap
The ITEST (IT Experiences for Students and Teachers) Learning Resource
Center, in which YouthLearn is a partner, recently held a public event on
Engaging Girls in Science and IT. This eSchool News feature story provides
a good summary, in case you missed the webcast: "To engage girls in the
study of science and technology, educators need to convey the right
message about the roles these fields play in society and the skills they
require--and they also need to provide more hands-on activities that have
some social value. These were the main lessons imparted..."
URL: http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStoryts.cfm?ArticleID=5877
Referred by: eSchool News

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Funding

Information Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers
Deadline: November 2, 2005. "ITEST is designed to increase the opportunities
for students and teachers to learn about, experience, and use information
technologies within the context of science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics (STEM), including Information Technology (IT) courses. It is
in direct response to the concern about shortages of information
technology workers in the United States. Supported projects are intended
to provide opportunities for both school-age children and for teachers to
build the skills and knowledge needed to advance their study, and to
function and contribute in a technologically rich society. ITEST has two
components: (a) youth-based projects with strong emphases on career
and educational paths; and (b) comprehensive projects for students and
teachers."
URL: http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/NSF/OIRM/HQ/05-621/Grant.html
Referred by: CTCNet Funding and Events

Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership Accepting Applications
Deadline: December 1, 2005. "The Japan Foundation Center for Global
Partnership is a grantmaking organization that works to promote mutual
understanding between the United States and Japan on contemporary
social issues. CGP's Grassroots Exchange Program provides support for
exchange projects that involve issue-oriented cooperation and learning
among youth, nonprofit organizations, and members of the general public
in both the U.S. and Japan. Examples of issue areas are disaster awareness,
homelessness, HIV/AIDS, volunteerism, environment, disability, labor
practices, domestic violence, aging, and social services."
URL: http://www.cgp.org
Referred by: Foundation Center

VSA arts and MetLife Foundation Invite Applications for Arts
Deadline: December 16, 2005. "VSA arts and the MetLife Foundation have
announced their 2nd annual Arts Connect All funding opportunity for arts
organizations. Arts Connect All was developed to encourage arts
organizations to create or enhance inclusive, accessible education
programming that strengthens partnerships with local public schools."
Eligibility is restricted to certain metropolitan areas in the U.S. See
guidelines for details.
URL: http://www.vsarts.org/x273.xml
Referred by: Foundation Center

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Resources

Focus on High School
The new issue of Education Development Center's report series, Mosaic,
may be of interest to folks working with high school-aged youth in and
outside of the classroom. Articles include: "The Role of High School in K-12
Education," "High School Students Thinking Like Scientists," and "Creating
Healthy High Schools."
URL: http://main.edc.org/Mosaic/Mosaic10/toc.asp

FREE food for thought TOOL KIT
"The Action Coalition for Media Education continues its 2005-2006 "Monthly
Media Education" resource offerings with their "ACME Food For Thought
Tool Kit," a FREE downloadable resource detailing a wide variety of ways
health, language arts, history, civics, social studies and journalism teachers
can use media education to focus on a host of food-related matters:
obesity, nutrition, health, corporate power, agriculture - of vital importance
to all of the globe's citizens today."
URL: http://www.acmecoalition.org
Referred by: ACME Member List

We welcome your feedback!

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