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TGR Learning Lab: Career Connected Learning Pathways & Industry Partnerships
These new case studies, part of our Making Connections project, explore how TGR Foundation focuses on developing youth interests in a learning lab that features hands-on classes, activities, & resources for youth to explore STEM topics and careers.
What is Connected Learning?
Connected learning combines personal interests, supportive relationships, and opportunities. It is learning in an age of abundant access to information and social connection that embraces the diverse backgrounds and interests of all young people.
In the News
DA 100 education influencers: Constance Steinkuehler
July 29, 2024 District Administration
A professor at the University of California, Irvine, Constance Steinkuehler works in UCI’s Department of Informatics, focusing on multiplayer online video games and their ramifications...
Connected Learning Resources
Research Tools
The Connected Learning Research Tools site features tools and instruments from 11 connected learning studies and projects.
Youth Connections for Wellbeing
The YCW project seeks to identify, support, test, and communicate new digital strategies for tapping young people’s insights, agency, and technology engagements to support wellbeing.
Raising Good Gamers
The Raising Good Gamers initiative was created to catalyze positive change in the culture and climate of online gaming for youth.
Connected Lib
Helping librarians make learning connections with youth
Reclaiming Digital Futures
Lessons to help youth thrive through informal learning with technology.... This toolkit and an associated report, shares effective practices for equitable, youth-centered digital learning.
Affiliated Labs
Stem Learning Lab
The STEM Learning Lab promotes rich learning opportunities in the places children and families spend time. Lab initiatives span classrooms, school yards, and community contexts (e.g., parks, bus-stops, playgrounds, grocery stores) to foster playful and interactive learning opportunities for children and families.
Design and Partnership Lab
The Daplab is a collective of learning scientists and co-designers who partner with community members and organizations. Our work is backed both by academic and practical knowledge and directed towards the most pressing needs of community partners
Orange County Educational Advancement Network (OCEAN)
OCEAN supports partnerships between researchers at the UCI School of Education and schools, organizations, and educators. Our goal is to create initiatives and partnerships that positively impact our local communities.
Digital Learning Lab
The Digital Learning Lab designs, develops, and studies digital and AI tools and curricula to promote language and literacy development and STEM learning in preK-12, higher education, and informal learning environments, with a focus on culturally and linguistically diverse learners.
Games Learning Society
The Games+Learning+Society (GLS) center is the premier center for transdisciplinary research and innovation in games and interactive media for learning, behavioral and social change.
Made with Play
Made with Play supports the research of online, play-based environments for youth and centers youth voice, equity, and inclusion in the creation of healthy, caring, kid-powered communities.
Creativity Labs
The Creativity Labs focuses on constructionist and design-based learning, and computational tools that support learning by leveraging youths’ interests in digital culture, design, and making.