Is School Enough? documents vivid examples of where new modes of learning and engagement are taking hold and flourishing. Featuring nationally recognized educators and researchers, Stephen Brown’s powerful stories show that when students have the opportunity to explore real interests and problems, they step up and perform at the highest level. This new approach reaches motivated students as well as kids that educators call “the bright and bored,” helping these learners tune in rather than drop out.
Targeted at parents, teachers, and anyone concerned about education in America, this program explores how exceptional educators are increasingly using digital media and interactive practices to ignite their students' curiosity and ingenuity, help them become civically engaged, allow them to collaborate with peers worldwide, and empower them to direct their own learning.
This series of nine videos shows young people engaged in meaningful and authentic learning that is taking place largely outside of school. The series is featured on Edutopia and is designed to expand on the themes of the PBS program "Is School Enough?" Each story emphasizes the important ways that youth are resourcefully participating in their own learning and in the world around them.
In today’s global economy, countries need high-quality education systems that will teach their citizens the skills necessary to meet the challenges of tomorrow. This series of twelve videos produced by Mobile Digital Arts for the OECD and the Pearson Foundation, highlights initiatives being taken by education authorities around the world to help students do better.
Funded by the Noyce Foundation and presented on Edutopia, this series of five videos examines how young people are doing science, technology, engineering, and math outside of school. Dr. Skateboard uses skateboarding to teach the principles of physics; a Nebraska farm family passes along science to their kids everyday; a young maker sets up shop in his garage and hosts a 3-D printing workshop.
Funded by the Pearson Foundation, these twelve first-person videos that make up this series explore three related themes, each in its own way at the center of current debate about what works, and what's needed, to help students succeed during school and in life. Profiles include Stephen Heppell, Yong Zhao, Larry Rosenstock, and Alan November.
REBORN New Orleans Schools chronicles the first official year of public school in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The centerpiece is the charter school movement's effort to radically transform education for the city’s mostly African-American public school children, many of whom would still be attending some of the worst performing schools in the nation.
Funded by the MacArthur Foundation, these twelve videos present profiles of the leading thinkers and researchers who are examining the role that digital media plays in young people's lives. Each of our subjects see digital media - social networks, online games and media production - as the transformational tools of the 21st century that enable all of us to pursue interests, form networks, interact with experts, and communicate in new ways.
From 2008 to 2012, Mobile Digital Arts produced profiles of educators who have been inducted into the Charter School Hall of Fame. Each inductee is chosen because he or she has demonstrated that charter schools can be a powerful force in public education. Profiles include Linda Brown, Norm Atkins, John King, Ember Reichgott Junge, and Don Shalvey.
