Hi iDC list,<br><br>My name is Andres Lombana Bermudez and I am looking forward to participating in Mobility Shifts. Joyce Neys, Nathaniel Levy, and I are going to run a workshop on curriculum design based on our work at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society's Youth and Media (YaM) Lab. Our workshop will focus primarily on how to use collaborative design and the rapid prototyping process towards the creation of new learning activities—designed for both formal and informal learning environments—that foster greater understanding and awareness of information quality among youth.<br>
<br>The YAM Lab launched in 2011 at the Berkman Center with the goal of bridging research, policy, and practice by bringing youth into the process of producing research on digital learning and youth-related privacy and information quality issues. The Lab’s activities are divided into three main tracks: exploratory research, curriculum building, and tool development. The research track encompasses data collection (focus group interviews and surveys) and policy-oriented publications (based on a major YaM literature review on information quality, due for publication Fall 2011).<br>
<br>Building upon these findings, the curriculum track aims to develop and test educational modules on on privacy- and information quality-related issues in collaboration with youth (for example, some modules have kids role-play in the evaluation of social media content; others are structured as web-based scavenger hunts for information) . Third, the Lab’s team seeks to develop a set of media literacy tools (“navigation aids for cyberspace”), including an application to assess news quality, a set of privacy badges, etc. <br>
<br>Programatically, the YAM Lab would like to bring select youth to the Berkman Center for a sustained period of time to produce corps of young people that leave with an intimate knowledge of adult conversations about youth-tech issues and the confidence and capacity to initiate workshops or trainings in their own communities. The YAM lab also intends to share the curriculum with youth media organizations and educators. <br>
<br>Our individual introductions can be found in this thread.<br>