The Pearson Foundation and the Digital Arts Alliance
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.
Digital Arts Alliance Members
These organizations have joined the Pearson Foundation in taking a leadership role in bringing digital arts projects to students, educators, and school leaders.
Adobe
Adobe Systems Inc. works with the Pearson Foundation to host Digital Arts Alliance student movies and other digital stories on Adobe’s Digital Kids Club website.
Click here to find out more about Adobe, its Digital Kids Club, and the Digital Arts Alliance
American Red Cross
The American Red Cross and the Pearson Foundation work together to provide digital-arts focused professional development workshops for middle- and high-school teachers in regional workshops across the United States. These intensive, sessions enable teachers and staff who have adopted the American Red Cross’s Exploring Humanitarian Law curriculum to integrate digital arts and digital filmmaking into their classroom lessons.
The CCSSO Teacher of the Year program
To help celebrate the amazing group of teachers from across the United States honored by the CCSSO Teacher of the Year program, the Pearson Foundation hosts these teachers in New York City—a visit that includes the opportunity for teachers to script, compose, and create personal video, each entitled “Why I Teach”.
Click here to find out more about the CCSSO Teacher of the Year program
E3: Employers for Education Excellence
Employers for Education Excellence, based in Portland, Oregon, has used digital arts to create an innovative professional development program that encourages 21st-century skills through project-based learning.
Click here to find out more about Employers for Education Excellence, and the Digital Arts Alliance
Facing History and Ourselves
Facing History and Ourselves, the international educational and professional development organization, and the Pearson Foundation work together to provide digital-arts focused professional development workshops for teachers in regional workshops across the United States.
Click here to find out more about Facing History and Ourselves and the Digital Arts Alliance
The International Society for Technology in Education
The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) – the trusted source for professional development, knowledge generation, advocacy, and leadership for innovation – and the Pearson Foundation work together to provide support, membership services, and learning materials for the Digital Arts Alliance Leadership Institute, a professional development program designed to promote leadership in digital arts education. (Membership pending)
Click here to find out more about ISTE and the Digital Arts Alliance Leadership Institute
The Jane Goodall Institute
The Jane Goodall Institute and the Pearson Foundation support digital arts and environmental and humanitarian education for youth around the world. The Pearson Foundation and JGI kicked off their partnership at Jane Goodall’s Global Youth Summit in Orlando, Florida, on Earth Day, April 22, 2008. This partnership brought its digital media curriculum to the Jane Goodall Institute’s Roots & Shoots groups in five locations around the world, creating a global dialogue among young people regarding the critical issues facing our planet.
Click here to find out more about the Jane Goodall Institute and the Digital Arts Alliance
National Academy Foundation
Together with the National Academy Foundation, the Pearson Foundation offers digital arts-based workshop programs for National Academy Foundation students and teachers across the United States. These classroom-based sessions bring together two important tools for learning and instruction: project-based learning, and the effective development of key 21st-century skills young people need to succeed in class and at work.
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NWP Letters to the Next President: The Video Campaign
The Letters to the Next President: The Video Campaign encourages students to continue to add their voices to the growing conversation about America's future. Building on the Letters to the Next President: Writing Our Future campaign launched this fall by the National Writing Project and Google Docs, this new video campaign invites young filmmakers to create and broadcast digital films that can be shared in classrooms across the country.
Click here to find out more about the NWP Letters to the Next President Video Campaign
NEA Foundation
The NEA Foundation supports digital arts for its Achievement Gap Sites program, a multi-year investment in school quality and leadership. This digital arts initiative enhances the way that teachers and young people in these key districts experience and acquire 21st-century skills.
Click here to find out more about the NEA Foundation and the Digital Arts Alliance
Nokia
Nokia, a world leader in mobile communications, and the Pearson Foundation sponsor the Mobile Learning Institute, which delivers engaging, personalized, project-based learning right to the classrooms and community centers across the United States. By sharing the latest mobile technologies in classrooms across the United States, the Mobile Learning Institute helps teachers and students develop the 21st-century skills they need to design, develop, and complete the collaborative digital arts projects that will shape their future.
Peachpit
Peachpit, the leading digital arts publisher, and the Pearson Foundation are working together to create books on the use of technology, the impact of digital arts on students and teachers, and best practices in use and design. In addition, Peachpit makes donations based on existing sales of titles in the market-leading Visual QuickStart Guide series to the Digital Arts Alliance Scholarship Fund, a fund established for teachers and students who might not otherwise have access to these titles.
Click here to find out more about the Peachpit and the Digital Arts Alliance
Pearson Education
Pearson Education, the leading educational publisher, and the Pearson Foundation sponsor the Digital Literacy Fellowship Program, an initiative designed specifically to promote the use of digital technologies among teachers who serve the nation’s Hispanic communities.
Click here to find out more about the Pearson Education and the Digital Literacy Fellowship Program
Phi Delta Kappa International
Phi Delta Kappa, the international association for professional educators, together with the Pearson Foundation sponsors the Inside Our Schools digital film competition for schools engaged in the Future Educator Association (FEA), the only nationally recognized organization promoting education as a career.
