Nichole Pinkard, Director of Innovation
University of Chicago
Urban Education Institute
Three Expertise Keywords:
after-school, New-media-literacy, one-to-one-computing
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Why Digital Media and Learning?
To ensure all youth regardless of race, class, and gender become digital natives in order to control their destinies.
Recent Posts:
- Nichole Pinkard: Girl Power, Encouraging Sixth Grade Girls to Give Video Games a Try (October 29, 2007)
- Nichole Pinkard: Preparing Urban Youth to be Multiliterate (October 22, 2007)
- Pinkard: Videogames Inspire a Different Design for Classroom Learning (February 7, 2007)
- Nichole Pinkard: Developing Opportunities for Urban Youth to become Digital (October 31, 2006)
Description of Current Work:
My current work is focused on developing pathways for urban youth to develop fluidity as creators and consumers of new media literacies; thereby creating the new “multi-media literate” student.
Selected Publications/Projects/Articles/Press:
Digital Youth Network, Information Infrastructure Project http://www.iisrd.org
