Digital literacy advocate and open internet activist Ani Martinez brings new energy to building Remake Learning community

Welcome to West Virginia: home of country roads, coal mines, and classroom innovation.

At the bend of the Monongahela River toward downtown Pittsburgh, the hills and valleys of Hazelwood are teeming with energy and vision as the community re-imagines and re-creates itself as a place of learning remade.

Exploring Pittsburgh's East End neighborhoods reveals a portrait of communities in flux. See what community organizations and educators are doing to prepare the next generation for a future full of change.

Re-making the Mon Valley from a center of industry to a community full of new kinds of makers, tinkerers, creators, and innovators.

Lori Delale-O’Connor researches issues of equity in urban education, and shares strategies with Remake Learning for creating a more transformative impact.

Getting to know Pittsburgh's historic Hill District community and getting a glimpse of how the neighborhood will participate in Remake Learning Days.

A visit to Pittsburgh's hardworking Hilltop neighborhoods for a preview of how these communities will take part in Remake Learning Days this May.

Checking in with our neighbors to the North (of the Allegheny River) to find out what's on deck for Remake Learning Days in Pittsburgh's Northside neighborhoods.

In Pittsburgh and across the world, Mark Stehlik is sharing a lifetime of computer science teaching experience with a new generation

The latest phase of My Brother’s Keeper in Pittsburgh included a series of community conversations between young African American and Latino men and the providers of programs designed to serve them. We caught up with Dr. Jamil Bey, who facilitated the conversations.

Erika Johnson is the executive director of the Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse (PCCR). The center is both a shop of reclaimed materials and a center for hands-on creative programming. An evangelist for reuse, Johnson believes reuse is an essential and underappreciated way to build sustainable communities. Johnson is also an installation artist with a long-term passion for found, rescued, and reclaimed materials, and a more recent obsession with microscopic animals.

As director and teaching professor at Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center, Drew Davidson has his finger on the pulse of the latest and greatest in games and learning. And he’s always pushing the envelope. Davidson also runs ETC Press, an open-source publishing imprint. He is also the editor of its Well Played Journal, which focuses on video games, value, and meaning. He led a team of designers to create the Chicago Public Library’s YOUmedia, a digital space for teens now replicated throughout the country. In addition, he’s been a leading voice in national conversations on game play, storytelling, interactive media, and more.

A summer series of workshops on race and identity culminates this month with a Youth Summit that asks, "Are we so different?"

Sprout talks to Ian ..., the project manager of First Waves, a program that is teaching kids to surf the rivers and to clean them up as well.

Ani Martinez, program manager of the Remake Learning Digital Corps, talks about the new initiative teaching digital literacy to adults and kids across Pittsburgh.

Bill Strickland may not be familiar with the term “21st Century skills,” but he’s been helping kids build them and a whole lot more for years at his urban arts centers. The centers began in Pittsburgh in 1968 and are being replicated across the country. Strickland says the model teaches kids “how to have confidence that the problems they’re encountering are solvable.”

In Pittsburgh, local leaders reflect on the legacy of Fred Rogers.

Pittsburgh Youth Media reporters attended the Remaking Cities conference at CMU. While there, reporter Nico Chiodi had an opportunity to interview architect and new urban innovator, Toni Griffin.

Sprout founders and Remake Learning members, Cathy Lewis Long and Matt Hannigan, talk about how they got to where they are.

Amy Eshleman is spearheading the expansion of Learning Labs at libraries, museums, and other cultural institutions in cities across the country. The unique digital spaces are designed to inspire teens to become creators and makers, not just passive consumers of digital media.

Siena Baldi is founder and director of the MITCH Collective, a community arts non-profit offering workshops, artist residencies, and studio space.

We talk with one of the authors of the flipped classroom about how the model has evolved over time and why we still need brick and mortar schools in the digital age.

“You can’t flunk at a museum,” says Jane Werner. The executive director of the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh sees museums as labs that can inspire the next generation of artists, scientists, engineers and their teachers.