The New Learning Institute delivers engaging, personalized, project-based digital media programs to young people and educators. We work in classrooms, after-school centers, museums, and cultural institutions, or wherever learning takes place. Using the latest mobile technologies and digital media practices and tools, we help young people explore their interests, direct their own learning, and better prepare themselves for living and working in the 21st century.
See the New Learning Institute at Work
At the Chicago Public Library, the YOUmedia Center is an innovative learning space that brings technology and 21st century skills to young people on their own terms.
The Bronx Zoo became a learning space as teams of students used mobile smart phones to create digital tour guides.
Chicago students speak out for education.
Can you imagine yourself and your community in the year 2020? These students in White Plains, New York, did.
These entities created a partnership for 21st century skills.
Young people spend a lot of time blogging, posting, or tweeting. This pilot program investigates ways to make blogging part of their education instead of an interruption.
This program uses design principles to transform learning.
Game design becomes a learning tool.


YOUmedia at the Chicago Public Library
Mobile Guide: Mapping the Bronx Zoo
Education is a Civil Right PSA Workshop
Envision 2020: Seeing the Future
NLI and the White Plains School District
Blogging as a Learning Tool
Mobo Studio: Education by Design
Mobile Quest