• BETT 2013: School Leaders Summit

    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 –
  • D Is For Digital: New Vast Wasteland Or Learning Oasis?

    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.

    EdTech Industry Summit

    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
  • Content in Context 2013

    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

    Games for Change

    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
  • Education Techology Innovation Summit

    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,
  • Game Science and Game-Based Learning: Bringing Education to Life

    This panel, organized by Nesta and the Serious Games Institute in the UK, brings together a diverse group of speakers to debate and discuss how game-based approaches can be used to improve learning and how such practices can be evaluated, encouraged and spread. Speakers will include Dr Jo Twist (UKIE), Rebecca Rufo-Tepper (Institute of Play),
  • FETC

    FETC, a division of 1105 Media Inc., is one of the largest conferences in the United States devoted to educational technology. The conference gives educators an opportunity to learn how to integrate different technologies across the curriculum – from kindergarten to college – while being exposed to the latest hardware, software and successful strategies on
  • Digital Gaming in the Classroom

    Join Education Fellow Jessica Millstone and Research Associate Briana Pressey for a free SchoolReach Professional Development webinar in which they will share new data on how teachers are using digital games in the classroom to support deeper learning. This work updates and expands on a 2012 survey that showed a majority of teachers are finding
  • SXSWEdu 2014

    If you’re in Austin, 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” — This panel brings together education, game development and research experts come for a discussion of

    DML 2014

    The DML2014 conference calls on all of us to build shared agendas and goals, to reach across the boundaries that separate our disciplines, fields, institutions, and sectors to re-imagine the where, when, and how of educational practice. On March 7 at 4pm, join the Cooney Center for “Creating Youth Builders – Promoting a New Game