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The New Learning Institute delivers engaging, personalized, project-based digital media programs to young people and educators. We work in classrooms, after-school centers, museums, and cultural institutions, or wherever learning takes place. Using the latest mobile technologies and digital media practices and tools, we help young people explore their interests, direct their own learning, and better prepare themselves for living and working in the 21st century.

Describes the importance of designing games as a way to engage students in the exploration of systems.

Nichole Pinkard, founder of the Digital Youth Network describes the importance of media literacy as an essential component of a 21st century education.

Describes the role that digital media can play in helping young people explore their interests especially when deployed at informal learning environments like museums and libraries.

The National Writing Project's Elyse Eidman-Aadahl talks about how new digital tools are extending our ability to tell stories and to communicate across time and space.

Describes the importance of play, tinkering, and the new role that collaboration and collective expertise - all made possible by digital media - will have in solving complex problems in a constantly changing world.

Mimi Ito of the University of California, Irvine, describes how new media practices are transforming the ways that young people interact, play, collaborate and learn outside of school.

Henry Jenkins, a leading media scholar at the University of Southern California, describes digital media's role in creating greater opportunities for creativity, civic engagement and political participation.