Next Wednesday, I’m psyched to attend Harvard’s Berkman Center Youth and Civic Engagement Forum, part of their ongoing series of events discussing Digital Natives. This forum will broadly focus on how young people use digital technologies in their daily lives; more specifically, it will explore how engaging with such technologies can bring about meaningful change. [more after the jump]
The roundtable discussion will be highlighted by mini-lectures from educators and activists (notably Paul Selkers from Obama Works and Nasser Weddady from HAMSA); but, if this is like any other Berkman event I’ve ever attended, the conversation will ping-pong around the table in a fun whirl of ideas, comments, and critiques.
If you’re in the Cambridge/Boston area, check out the link above and see if there are spots left to join in. If not, the event (like all Berkman events) will be webcast live on Wednesday. Hope to see you there! (and the lunch is always awesome, too!)
[Special Flickr thanks to Mike Licht for the illustration.]
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