Category Archives: Conferences and Community Events

If you’re in Austin for SXSWEdu, join the Cooney Center at one of the panels that we are presenting. On Monday, March 3, Education Fellow Jessica Millstone will be part of “Listen Up! Speak Up! Game Up! A Game Data Discussion” at 1:30 pm. This panel brings together education, game development and research experts come for a discussion of the ways games ignite the hunger for learning. You’ll hear the perspectives of parents, teachers, and students as well as ideas…

This year, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center will be a part of not just one, but two sessions at the Digital Media and Learning Conference, an annual event supported by the MacArthur Foundation and organized by the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub. The conference, which takes place March 6-8th, 2014 in Boston, brings together scholars and practitioners who aim to foster interdisciplinary and participatory dialog while linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. This year is focused on the…

Lisa Guernsey, Director of the Early Education Initiative at the New America Foundation, moderated the “Maximizing Impact” discussion at the Learning at Home Forum in New York on January 24.  Her commentary on the report appears on Slate.com; an excerpt appears here with permission. Any self-respecting skeptic has to be careful with the word educational. Thousands of games in the iTunes App Store describe themselves as “educational,” but are they? On TV, preschool shows declare that it’s “learning time,” but is…

On January 24, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center released the results of a national survey of more than 1500 parents of children ages 2-10, and their perceptions of educational media use at home. Read on for slides from the Learning at Home Forum last week and highlights from the report.   We were thrilled to see a standing-room only crowd at our venue, the second floor galleries at McGraw Hill in midtown Manhattan. Michael Levine welcomed the audience and provided an…

Dale Kunkel, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of Communication at the University of Arizona. He spoke as a provocateur at the Learning at Home Forum on January 24, 2014 in New York. Here, he shares his thoughts on the dearth of quality educational content for older kids on various platforms, including television, mobile devices, and video games. A video of his remarks is available below. Kids spend several hours every day with screen media – watching TV, surfing the Internet, playing…

David Kleeman, SVP, Insights Programs and PlayVangelist, PlayCollective, delivered these provocative remarks at the Learning at Home Forum in New York on January 24. The text of his commentary is posted below the video. You can read his blog post, “Kids and Educational Media: Desire to Learn vs. Design to Teach” on the Huffington Post. Good morning, and thanks to the Michael and Vicky for inviting me to comment.  I’ve been outspoken about educational media before, and hope to be…

FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel delivered the keynote address at the Cooney Center’s Learning at Home forum on Friday, January 24, 2014.

Vicky Rideout, author of Learning at Home: Families’ Educational Media Use in America, presents some of the key findings from the report at a Cooney Center Forum in New York.

In late September, more than 60 constituents from various sectors including research, policy, government, technology and investment gathered in Washington, D.C. for the “What Tech Works for Students? Using Data to Determine What Technology is Driving Outcomes” symposium hosted by the Department of Education, Battelle Memorial Institute, and Tucker Capital. Groups like the Gates Foundation, The White House, Common Sense Media, as well as the Joan Ganz Cooney Center were part of the lineup — all of these organizations have…

Today brought some good news as one of our proposed panels was selected as part of the SXSWedu conference slated for next March. The session, “Lost in Translation: Applying the Latest Game Research,” emerged from the 700 submitted ideas to the major education and innovation conference. It’s exciting news for a couple of reasons. First, it is affirmation of one of the major initiatives we are about to launch at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center. We have been working through…