What’s New at Schaffer Library

This report ties in with yesterday’s post from the Pew/Internet report on Teens, Video Games and Civics. ”Kids’ Informal Learning with Digital Media: An Ethnographic Investigation of Innovative Knowledge Cultures” is a three-year collaborative project funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Carried out by researchers at the University of Southern California and University of California, Berkeley, the digital youth project explores how kids use digital media in their everyday lives.

Read the Final Report as well as a White Paper entitled, Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project .

Digital Youth Research also includes projects, publications, and more.

Juvenile Justice: Are sentencing policies too harsh?

As many as 200,000 youths charged with crimes today are tried in adult courts, where judges tend to be tougher and punishments harsher — including sentencing to adult prisons. But with juvenile crime now on the decline, youth advocates are seizing the moment to push for major changes in iron-fisted juvenile justice systems nationwide. Above all, they want to roll back harsh state punishments. . . .Read full report