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Selected stories covering the innovative work of DFI and our Collaborators

DFI's Managing Director and Vice Dean for Digital Innovation Lalitha Vasudevan with NY1’s multimedia journalist and anchor Rocco Vertuccio about artificial intelligence (AI) in the classroom and what teachers, families, and students need to consider in going back to school with access to these new technologies.

DFI Affiliated Professor Ioana Literat and her co-author Neta Kligler-Vilenchik wrote a piece for Ms. Magazine on the online activism of young women. In , they discuss what political expression looks like now for some young people in digital spaces.

DFI's Managing Director and Vice Dean for Digitial Innovation, Lalitha Vasudevan, talked with Columbia News about the Media and Social Change Lab (MASCLab). In the piece, , Vasudevan discusses the history of MASCLab, the kinds of projects that have happened there, and how it intersects with other areas of her work.

3 Playful Summer Tips for Parents

In this piece by the Teachers College Newsroom, Director of Play Initiatives Haeny Yoon and DFI affiliated Professor Nathan Holbert, co-hosts of the DFI-produced podcast , talk about how parents can support children's play over the summer.

DFI Managing Director and Vice Dean for Digital Innovation Lalitha Vasudevan appeared on the NPR and WIRED co-produced podcast Know It All: 1A and WIRED's Guide to AI as part of a group conversation about ChatGPT in the classroom.

DFI Affiliated Professor Sonali Rajan wrote an Opinion piece for the LA Times: .

DFI Senior Executive Director Charles Lang is quoted in this article from USA Today about the SAT going to only digital administration. In the piece, , he notes how the change may be bigger than the College Board described.