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Monthly Archives: April 2011

Who’s Leading the Way: Digital Natives or Ex-Pats?

by Susan Crown
April 29, 2011

To put my thoughts into context, I offer the following assertions: Our public education system is failing; Incremental change to a failing system is the same as making no change at all; Kids today spend—on average—seven hours each day interacting with and through digital media; The digital world has become …

Tags: digital native, learning, learning from hollywood

De-Buzzifying a Buzz Word

by Carly Shuler
April 27, 2011

Last week I had the opportunity participate in a panel discussion at Sprockets, Toronto’s International Film Festival for Children and Youth (which, by the way, is a FANTASTIC event held in the new and equally fantastic TIFF building). The topic of the panel? Transmedia. Well of course. It seems that …

Tags: broadcast, carly shuler, educational media, henry jenkins, multi-platform, sprockets, television, transmedia

Achieving e-Quality

by David Kleeman
April 27, 2011

As long as media have created content for children, there have been debates about what defines “quality.” From the “penny dreadfuls” to radio to comic books to music, and onward to TV and digital media, parents have been cautioned about wasted time, moral decay or learning delays. At the same …

Tags: children's media, learning from hollywood

iPhone Learning: A Mother’s Cautionary Tale

by Lisa Guernsey
April 25, 2011

I hate to admit it, but I’m the one who brought Pocket Frogs into my daughters’ lives. We were at the airport, awaiting our flight. I was loathing the idea of breaking into all the carefully packed-up pens and activity books before boarding in 20 minutes. Why not find a …

Tags: apps, iphone, learning from hollywood

Where Will Digital Learning’s Killer Apps Come From?

by Ryan Blitstein
April 22, 2011

At SCE, we aim to support and influence the emerging world of anywhere, anytime, any-device, access-for-all learning. Our vision, of course, relies heavily on high-quality digital media, and on aiding the people and organizations with the potential to create tomorrow’s innovative digital learning products. But we (and the field) have …

Tags: digital learning, digital media, learning from hollywood, scratch, video games

Use Technology to Encourage Creativity and Build Skills

by Administrator
April 20, 2011

We are thrilled to have an outstanding lineup of speakers who will be participating in the Learning from Hollywood Forum. Here, Carla Sanger, President and CEO of LA’s BEST After School Enrichment Program, highlights uses of digital media for expanding kids’ experiences of the world, developing understanding and empathy for …

Tags: digital citizenship, LA's Best, learning from hollywood, media literacy, teacher training

Michael Levine on The Open Mind

by Meagan Bromley
April 14, 2011

Tune into PBS this weekend to see Joan Ganz Cooney Center’s Executive Director Michael H. Levine, PhD on Richard Heffner’s The Open Mind. The program airs on Channel 13 in New York (check your local listings) this Saturday, April 23rd at 12:00 p.m. Together, Michael and Richard discuss some of …

The Wall Must Come Down

by Gary E. Knell
April 14, 2011

This May, a group of leaders from the creative media industries, education, research, policy, and philanthropy will come together at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts for the Joan Ganz Cooney Center’s Leadership Forum, where we will spend two days considering innovative ways to support young people’s learning with and through …

Tags: education, entertainment media, gary e. knell, sesame street, sesame workshop

Using Entertainment Media to Empower a Generation

by Alice Cahn
April 11, 2011

On April 5, 2009, 11-year-old Carl Walker-Hoover hanged himself after enduring constant bullying at school, despite his mother’s weekly pleas to the school to address the problem. It was the fourth suicide of a middle-school aged child linked to bullying that year. That same spring, Cartoon Network’s audience research with …

Tags: bullying, cartoon network, learning from hollywood

Protecting the Sticky Fingers

by Carly Shuler
April 4, 2011

A few weeks ago I blogged about Fisher Price’s new iPhone case, a plastic case that protects the devices from the poking, prodding, and sticky fingers of young children. I commented on how we’ve figured out how to protect the device from sticky fingers, but questioned who’s protecting those sticky …

Tags: apple, carly shuler, in-app purchasing, ipads, iphones, policy