A successful event
The 2009 MVU Online Learning Symposium explored how young people are using new media and communication tools to build social networks, create content and learn from their peers. This new environment has significant implications for learning and teaching, and it creates new challenges for students, parents, educators and policy makers.
The conference provided perspectives on education in the digital age, who today's students are, what they are doing online, the growing disconnect between in-school and out-of-school activities, and the changing roles of young people and adults.
 Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project
In the opening keynote, “Networked Learners,” Rainie discussed the latest findings of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project about how teenagers and young adults have embraced technology of all kinds — including broadband, cell phones, gaming devices and MP3 players. He described how technology has affected the way “digital natives” search for, gather and act on information. The Pew Internet & American Life Project is a nonprofit, non-partisan “fact tank” that studies the social impact of the Internet.
 Julia Angwin, Columnist and Technology Editor for the Wall Street Journal
Angwin’s presentation, “Media Literacy,” focused on the use of social media tools by youth, including personal branding, students’ online identity, new online marketing efforts targeted at teens and young adults and social media literacy skills. Angwin is author of Stealing MySpace, a new book that, according to an Amazon.com review, “chronicles the swift, dramatic rise and deep impact of MySpace.”
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