For our young people, success in school and in life requires educational experiences that meet the challenges of our new century. That’s why we started the Digital Arts Alliance.
The Digital Arts Alliance delivers innovative educational experiences right to students and their teachers, providing fully funded and fully equipped digital arts programs to middle schools, high schools, and community centers across the United States. These programs help participants develop essential skills they will need as they apply what they know to the kinds of collaborative, team–based projects that will shape their future.
Working together to design, develop, and complete digital projects tied to their classroom objectives, students and educators achieve tangible results they can use immediately in their lives. This is a new, 21st – century literacy – one that integrates core subject knowledge with learning and innovation skills; information, media, and technology skills; and essential life and career skills.
For members of the Digital Arts Alliance, the path that develops these skills is the Digital Arts Residency – an intensive, classroom–based workshop that since 2005 has educated and served more than 15,000 young people and teachers across the United States.
Since 2005, the Digital Arts Alliance has grown to include a number of innovative public and private program partners. Together with the Pearson Foundation, these partners provide Student Residencies that develop important 21st – century skills among students, as well as Educator Residencies that similarly develop teachers’ ability to foster these skills in the classroom.
Partner Hightlight
Letters to the Next President:
the Video Campaign
The Digital Arts Alliance and the National Writing Project are pleased to announce a video extension to Letters to the Next President: Writing Our Future, a 21st Century Skills initiative developed by Google Docs and the NWP that allows young people to write about the issues they want the next president to address and, with the support of their teachers, to publish their work for a national audience.
Now, as the Obama Administration gets to work, the Pearson Foundation
and the NWP are collaborating to offer teachers and their students the chance to publish and share their own videos through the Letters to the Next President Website.