Rapid Ideation! Let’s get started
The fall session with a brand new Innovation Lab youth team has begun. We opened by introducing students to the…
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Where young people combine programming and journalism to develop new tools, and tell dynamic stories about issues facing their environment and their community.
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The Autodesk Gallery
Here’s a perk that comes with being a part of Youth Radio’s Innovation Lab: We get cool field trips! Our…
Hello World
One year ago this month, Youth Radio’s Mobile Action Lab, was at the beginning of a new chapter. The Mobile…
Curriculum Making 101 (Part 3 of 3)
Now that our team had experimented with piecing together a curriculum in a logical order, our next job was to dive into what a single lesson looks like, and then decide which lessons we wanted to create for our first year of the Innovation Lab’s storytelling curriculum project.
Curriculum Making 101 (Part 2 of 3)
Now that we all had a general understanding of the innovation lab and its mission, it was time for our team to think about the way people learned in order to build an effective curriculum over the course of the year.
Curriculum Making 101 (Part 1 of 3)
This is Part One in a series of posts coming out of a Curriculum Bootcamp we held at Youth Radio this fall to introduce a small group of young people to the process of creating learning experiences for peers.
Brains & Beakers: Toying with Engineering
Two recent Stanford graduates are trying to get more girls interesting in technology — by embedding it in dollhouses. The founders of Roominate, Alice Brooks and Bettina Chen, took the concept of building toys for girls to a whole new level by adding wires and generators.
Brains and Beakers: Gamifying Air Pollution
Could video games save the environment? Maybe with the right video game, and that’s what Greg Niemeyer is trying to…
Placing More Value On Creating Technology Instead of Using It
This piece aired on KQED-FM. By Christina So I’m going to pick on you a lot.” That was the first thing…