 I think my dream is that lab we're trying to set up here and clearly this is an experiment with Jenner's funding from the McCormick Foundation we see it as a prototype and the dream would be that others other places other universities but also schools create similar experiments would establish their own labs and it's crucial to study youth because youth obviously are the future of our society and I think it's a fun and dynamic topic today when it relates to information in particular because I think social norms are changing so quickly user practices are changing so quickly and I think they're actually having a huge impact on how technology is developed and the kinds of services and products that are developed and I also think that there are enormous implications for institutions that I care a lot about like educational institutions so understanding how young people are getting access to information thinking about it analyzing it that has a lot to do with how we think about teaching and how we in fact as teachers learn about learning practices for students. The basic idea is the following John Paul in particular and I we have done a lot of research on youth and media but what we never when it came to policy-making we never necessarily involved youth so the youth and media lab actually tries to expand our work in this particular direction by creating some sort of R&T lab that brings together both researchers and members of our community with young people. Before youth can bring change using media they need to learn how to search and to evaluate information through it and I think that in order to make the kinds of decisions necessary and to have the foundation to take action later on they need to have the information first and that information is going to be coming through online sources then we need to make sure they know how to use those sources properly. So this summer I'm helping work on curriculum to bring the literature of you and its contents back to the community. The internet is still very young it's still a teenager when the internet the popular internet has not yet turned 20 right and so growing with the internet understanding how it evolves through adolescence into adulthood is very important. So I think as a society you're gonna have to decide sort of what do we value in education certainly skills are important but also thinking about creativity and innovation how do we how do we foster those. So I hope the classroom in the future looks like a place where everyone is a teacher and a learner. It's a lot of youth who are willing to push these buttons and test stuff out and so that's really exciting. Youth and students are learning and growing with this in ways that stodgy older folks of which we don't have many at Berkman but that you know people who are adaptable and who are eager to jump in who try things and fail and succeed. I first of all hope that the hard work that we have been doing here at the lab will be kind of a proof of concept that bringing together young people together with researchers and developers that this will lead to better outcomes and yeah lead also to more interesting research questions for the future and in a more like long-term I hope that the lab will inspire other researchers and other countries hopefully to create similar labs.