Young Adult

Recent Resources & Articles to Connect with Youth

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Article: Who Has The Solutions For Thriving In A Digital World? Young People.

A new report from the National Scientific Council on Adolescence looks at research on youth development and technology use to offer specific suggestions to ensure that digital tech used by middle-school-aged youth: Engaging, Safe, and Evidence-Based: What Science Tells Us Adolescents Need When Online

Learning while Gaming:
Boosting Student Interest in History Through Video Games Exploring history with educationally retrofitted commercial video games.
How Gaming Creates Opportunities for Learning That Endures
Harnessing Video Games to Cultivate Social and Emotional Learning

TEEN TALKING CIRCLES

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Can We Be Hopeful and Courageous in the Face of Climate Change?
A teenager draws on the work of Martin Luther King Jr. for inspiration in the fight against climate change.
BY LIKO SMITH-DOO | JANUARY 17, 2022

Navigating Youth Media

As the forward in this report states, "Young people are navigating their developing identities in the midst of tremendous social and technological change. They are increasingly relying on digital media to connect, learn, and play." This initiative is seeking to identify current media habits, gaps and ways media can better benefit youth.
This report is the first publication of an initiative called By/With/For Youth: Inspiring Next Gen Public Media Audiences. Media production by youth, with youth, and for youth describes approaches to engaging public media’s “missing audience” of tweens and teens who fall between content offerings for young children and adults. This literature review is a precursor to the full report, which will represent the ideas of a diverse group of youth ages 10-17 being interviewed at the time of this publication.

Virtual Programs with Teens

from Teen Librarian Cindy Shutts: Cindy Crushes Programming www.teenlibrariantoolbox.com

Virtual programming for teens

Aiden Tyler QuaranTEEN weekly webcast serial at Junior Library Guild

Try a Teen Tech Scavenger Hunt--see Tennessee State Library's example.

The Trevor Project offers accredited life-saving, life-affirming programs and services to LGBTQ youth that create safe, accepting and inclusive environments over the phone, online and through text.