The Year In Social Media
What’s out with teens in the social media space is important to investors — but why? Teens aren’t rolling in disposable income, after all. But 16-year-old Jasiri Emerson says teens are the most avid users of social media.
Technology
Best Science Stories of 2013
From drones in the sky, to raccoons on your block, Youth Radio’s science desk has got you covered. Check out a short list of some of our favorite moments of 2013.
Best Technology Stories Of 2013
A big year for teens and tech. Youth Radio reported on the popularity of Pokemon video games and cards, and…
Battlefield 4 Gives Xbox One A Chance To Shine
I consider myself a gamer with reasonable intelligence about Microsoft’s platforms, given that I’ve played quite a lot of Xbox…
Xbox One Brings Rome To Life In “Ryse”
As a gamer, one could imagine the excitement I felt when I was told that I had a chance to…
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.
The Biggest Disruptors In K-12 Education? Teachers.
Now that more schools are wired, and a generation of teachers is going online to download tools that help them teach, old models are being upended.