Out-Of-School Settings Create Climate for New Skills

The article written by Nora Fleming talks about how out-of-school programs are using mobile gaming to reinforce lessons from schools and learning labs that help students create their own multimedia projects with the aid of digital tools. Ultimately these are new ways that technology helps students to keep learning when they are outside of the school doors.  These programs are ways to get children to be more engaged by helping them learn in new ways using digital and media skills rather than simply teaching. They are calling this new trend “connected learning.” The purpose of connected learning to incorporate kids passion into learning so that learning will become their passion. Children in this day and age need to have a bridge between the gap in what they are learning and the new experience in learning that are offered. This new system is so new that most are calling it a leap of faith to get started, but sometimes an educator must be willing to take a risk for their students.