Being Me: Social Learning Networking

Being Me is Q2L’s custom designed social networking platform. With a familiar interface and similar functionality to popular online social networks, students are able to easily share and critique each other’s work, create blogs, find peer collaborators, and participate in community building, with support from adult mentors. Users share perspective and create dialogue through regular blog postings, debates, and discussion threads. Being Me is only a closed social network and only accessible to members of the school community.

Being Me was designed by the Institute of Play to support both academic and socio-emotional competencies that are part of Q2L’s curriculum. The site was developed in collaboration with Nichole Pinkard and Akili Lee and was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Being Me is currently being piloted in the Quest to Learn school in Chicago, ChicagoQuest.