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Teenager Alea Frydnlund is creating zombies.

“It will attack you if you’re on survival,” she says. “But right now, I’m just on creative.”

Alea hunches over a screen in a classroom at the University of Washington. Her bright red hair falls in her face as she rattles off terms – survival, creative – for Minecraft, the wildly popular videogame that...

Katie Davis, assistant professor at the UW iSchool, has received the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation. The award will provide Davis with $759,462 over five years to...

When new iSchool Assistant Professor of Digital Youth Jason Yip was a young kid growing up near Washington, D.C., one of his favorite pastimes was learning about science by exploring the area’s world-class museums.

“Not that I don’t love Seattle—but one thing Seattle does not have is free museums,” Yip said. “I got lucky—my parents were like, what do we do...

When Vancouver. B.C. native and new iSchool Assistant Professor Negin Dahya wrapped up her undergrad degree in psychology and English lit at the University of British Columbia in 2005, she wasn’t sure what direction she wanted to go with her career. So she took time off to travel to Brazil, where she volunteered facilitating arts-based education with young people in...

Two-years in the making, the Digital Youth Seattle Think Tank (DYSTT) brought together leaders from industry, research, practice and policy to share ideas, brainstorm research questions, and discuss  obstacles and solutions in the work of studying and learning from digital youth.

Digital Youth, one of the strategic areas of focus for the iSchool, explores the...