Negotiation — the ability to travel across diverse communities, discerning and respecting multiple perspectives, and grasping and following alternative norms. We now need to know how to live in multiple communities – from the hyperlocal to the global and from those composed of people like us to those consisting of people very different from us.
– Henry Jenkins
[Agency] has the potential to ignite a transformative identity shift if it’s not in a context where kids are given a lot of agency in what they explore.
– Mimi Ito
What are their names?
Where have they been?
Where are they going?
What do they love?
What do they have that no one else in the world does?
How are you different from them?
How are you the same?