At the MIT Media Lab recently I interviewed Karen A. Brennan of the Lifelong Kindergarten program about an MIT project called Scratch. In this 3-minute video she tells how youth personal engagement translates into adult civic engagement, bringing the parents, students and teachers together to see how the students were able to construct their own storytelling narratives rather than engage in what the researchers expected: acts of citizen journalism.
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