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Crossing the Digital Divide through Digital Media and Literacy: Digital Underground Storytelling for Youth (DUSTY)DUSTY is a university and community collaboration among UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Education, the UC Links Program, and the Prescott-Joseph Center for Community Enhancement. Funded by the U.S. Department of Education and the UC Office of the President (through the UC Links Program), DUSTY's digital storytelling program currently serves youth and adults in the West Oakland community, and brings together individuals and organizations--children, undergraduates, school teachers, community members, professors, schools, universities, and nonprofits--to learn, work, and play together through engaging in technology-based literacy activities. DUSTY's goals are as follows:
- to bridge the digital divide by providing children and adults in underserved communities with access to literacy and technology;
- to promote literacy learning with an eye toward determining how reading and writing can best be fostered in after-school, technology-rich settings;
- to push the boundaries between school and after-school, exploring how the literate and social development of after-school learning and play can be carried into students' and teachers' classroom worlds; and
- to provide a forum for intergenerational communication and community building by bringing children and seniors together to collaborate on the writing and sharing of digital stories.
Glynda Hull is the principal investigator, Mira-Lisa Katz is the research coordinator, and Michael James of the Prescott-Joseph Center is the community director.
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