DISCUSSION: How “Free” Can Student Speech Be On School Campuses?
Schools need to provide safe spaces and intellectual freedom for all students. How should they handle students’ free speech in today’s climate?
Lissa Soep
Youth Radio’s Senior Editor Talks Digital Age Civics at UC Berkeley
At the Youth, Learning, and Data Science Summit in August at UC Berkeley, Senior Editor Lissa Soep shared projects and…
Rethinking How We Teach Coding To Teens
Not all code does good in the world. While a weekend hackathon or Javascript summer camp are great for exposure, it’s disingenuous to suggest these isolated experiences would prepare a young person for a full-time engineering gig at Snapchat.
YRI at Stanford, Imagining Education’s Digital Future
Youth Radio’s Lissa Soep was a part of a lecture series at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education in May,…
DIY Toolkit: How To Find Your Radio Voice
You’ve done the research, you’ve written your script… now it’s time to step up to the mic and read. But if you really want to breathe life into your story, you can’t just read it— you have to perform it. So what goes into a good vocal performance? How do you sound casual, and authoritative? How do you sound like you’re talking to a friend, when you know actually reading off a paper? Learn some of the tricks of the trade for effective voicing in this lesson.
What Does It Mean to be Youth Driven?
When you’ve been doing something for 20 years, if you’re not careful, you can go on auto-pilot. Compared to other…
What Does It Mean to be Youth-Driven?
When you’ve been doing something for 20 years, if you’re not careful, you can go on auto-pilot. Compared to other…
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.
Ethan Zuckerman On Civic Engagement
It’s easy to find alarming evidence that we’ve lost our way when it comes to civics in the US. But longtime global activist and MIT prof Ethan Zuckerman says there’s a lot to get excited about too, if we’re willing to think in new ways about what it even means to be civically engaged in the digital age.