connected learning

What would it mean to think of education as a responsibility of a distributed network of people and institutions, including schools, libraries, museums and online communities? What would it mean to think of education as a process of guiding youths’ active participation in public life that includes civic engagement, and intellectual, social, recreational, and career-relevant pursuits? How can we take advantage of the new kinds of intergenerational configurations that have formed in which youth and adults come together to work, mobilize, share, learn, and achieve together? What would it mean to enlist in this effort a diverse set of stakeholders that are broader than what we traditionally think of as educational and civic institutions?

Full Participation -- learning environments, communities, and civic life thrive when all members actively engage and contribute.