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The 2013 Education Technology Innovation Summit is a one-day summit for educators to better understand what is new, trending, and innovative in education technology. ETIS 2013 will provide attendees the chance to hear from and network with industry leaders who are pioneering new products in the EdTech space. Sadaf Sajwani, the Center's Senior Project Manager, will be featured on a panel on Games and Learning. For more information, please visit the official site.
The Games for Change Festival is the largest gaming event in New York City and the leading international event uniting "games for change" creators with those interested in accessing the positive social impact of games. The event invites developers, researchers, educators, policy-makers, and anyone interested in the field of games and social impact to engage in a conversation on, and demos of, games for change. This year, the Cooney Center will co-curate a day of events on Games for Learning…
Presented by the Association of Educational Publishers and the Association of American Publishers School Division, Content in Context 2013 will explore industry trends. The event is for publishers, content developers, platform architects, and service providers interested in quality content, tools and environments, marketing, and research and policy. Michael Levine will be a featured speaker on Tuesday, June 4 at a panel called "Remaking the Page in the New Media Age." View the full agenda on the Content in Context 2013…
The 10th annual EdTech Industry Summit will focus on Navigating “Next.” Sessions will discuss what's coming next in the teaching and learning process in a post-PC world, and will prepare attendees to build the infrastructure, products, and services to support the changes that schools want or need. The conference invites the K-12 and postsecondary education technology marketplace for a lively discussion on the future of educational technology. This year, Michael Levine and John Richards will present a panel on game-based…
The Cooney Center's Executive Director Michael Levine and the New America Foundation's Lisa Guernsey will present the keynote address at Ready at Five's D Is For Digital School Readiness Symposium. Together, they will present the findings from the Pioneering Literacy in the Digital Wild West report. For more information on the symposium, visit the official site.
The Digital Media and Learning Conference is an annual event supported by the MacArthur Foundation and organized by the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub located at the UC Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine. The conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialog and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. The fourth annual conference – DML2013 – is organized around the theme…
The Bett 2013 Conference takes place in London, featuring leading figures in UK education and from education systems from around the world. Alongside the Bett conference, the School Leaders Summit Conference will feature two days of presentations, discussions, and master class sessions as well as coverage of the key strategic concerns for education leaders – curriculum, assessment, finance, autonomy and responsibility, improved leadership, industrial relations, staff development, capital projects, technology. Cooney Center Executive Director Michael Levine will be a keynote…
The Aspen Institute forum on Children's Health and Well-being welcomes selected philanthropists, scientists, policy-makers and healthcare practitioners for a policy discussion to advance research and create policies designed to put children first. For more information please visit http://www.aspeninstitute.org/events/2012/07/22/aspen-institute-childrens-forum-investing-childrens-health-well-being
Games for Change, the leading advocate for supporting and making games for social impact, is celebrating the organization’s new found global reach at this year’s 9th Annual Games for Change Festival at the NYU Skirball Center June 20-22. Use promo code "cooney" to save 10% off the registration fee. http://www.gamesforchange.org/
Geared towards the library community, the 2012 ALA conference brings together educators, authors, librarians and more for a lively discussion on improving and advancing our libraries. At this year's President's Program, Lori Takeuchi, our Research Director, will share her findings from Families Matter, a study on parent attitudes towards digital technologies. For more information, please visit http://alaannual.org
Produced by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop and LIFE Center at Stanford University, this report explores the challenges and successes of bringing families together around newer forms of media and offers essential advice to media producers interested in engaging children, parents, grandparents, and educators in meaningful conversation and play in this digital age. Following a walk-through of the study, we'll hear from a selection of panelists involved in the research and case studies, as well as producers…
