What’s new with Teens and Technology? Or, why it sucks a little less to be a teen right now.

Innovative Schools

Napa, CA Lack of quality workforce inspired collaboration Opened in 1996, with 220 students grades th

New Tech Continued Project Based Learning –Digital Portfolio –District Requirements –Digital Portfolio –College Credit –Senior year internship Student Project -projects/vietnam/Vietnam_site_index.html

High Tech High Brainchild of over 40 public and corporate sponsors Essential Spaces –Ex: Common Rooms (intellectual hub), Teaching Clusters/Shared Teacher Offices, Multi-purpose room, Studio Areas, Gallery Spaces, Specialty Labs, Outdoor Learning Spaces Personalized Learning Plan –Each student has personal computer –Same advisor for entire time at school –Meetings 2-3 times a year with parents, teachers, workplace mentors, student Locations: –San Diego –Chula Vista –North County

Innovative Libraries

Minneapolis Public Library Game Design Workshops Partnership with the Science Museum of Minnesota and MIT Teens instructed in Scratch, free software from MIT Early Teens formed Teen Tech Squad, which then took over workshops Scratch is available to all public libraries for free

Memphis Public Library Teen Tech Camp TEENPAGE.htm TEENPAGE.htm Partnership with SIM (Society for Information Management) Held 2 nd week in July, week long camp exposes teens to new technologies, BSOs 2007: the silly #13, the serious #6

Imaginon Partnership between Children’s Theater of Charlotte and Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County Time Warner Cable Tech Central –30 PC’s –4 Mac’s –Computer Classroom –Multimedia Production Studio (Studio i)

Studio i blue screen technology stop-motion animation paper cut-out animation claymation shadow puppet animation digital music production

Social Networking Myspace vs. YouTube – Space_%26_Teens Space_%26_Teenshttp:// Space_%26_Teens – Does it have to be teen focused? What if it’s all about changing perception?

YouTube For The Masses St. Joseph County Library –“Ray of Light” video Allen County Public Library –Zombie –Profile –Apple Arlington Heights Memorial Library Where does this leave library websites?

Denver Public Library Red state reaching the masses Myspace page: YouTube Contest:

What’s Next? Teen Second Life

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Articles High Schools Borja, Rhea R. “High Tech Haven.” Education Week. 5/29/2002, vol.21, p.26 Pearlman, Bob. “Reinventing the High School Experience.” Educational Leadership. April 2002, p.72 Game Design Davis, C., Kelsey, R., Mulligan, C., “From Playing to Creating.” School Library Journal. October 2007, p.36 Tech Camp Hoffman, Thomas. “Tech For Teens.” Computerworld. 12 November 2007., p.58 ImaginOn Kenney, Brian. “Imagine This.” School Library Journal. December 2005., p.53 Social Networking “Social Video: Videoblogging & YouTube.” Library Technology Reports. September-October 2007., p.52 Second Life Czarnecki, Kelly and Gullet, Matt., “Meet the New You.” School Library Journal. January 2007., p.36