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  • November 2018

  • Children’s Media Association – Bay Area Town Hall

    Nov 1 2018 | San Francisco, CA | Category: Community
    The Children’s Media Association celebrates the launch of the Bay Area chapter with their first official event: Rosé and Play with CMA-BA There will be games. There will be snacks.
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    18th Annual Dust or Magic Fall Institute

    Nov 4 2018 | Venue Lambertville, NJ, Lambertville, NJ | Category: Community
    A group of reviewers, designers and researchers meet to review the past year in children’s interactive media, as well as the latest research, writing and trends. The three day event—equivalent
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    Future of Childhood Salon: Immersive Media and Child Development

    Nov 7 2018 | Category: Cooney Center, Cooney Center presenting
    On November 7 and 8, 2018, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University, and Dubit will
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    NAEYC 2018 Annual Conference

    Nov 14 2018 | Venue Washington D.C., Washington D.C. | Category: Community
    The NAEYC Annual Conference is the largest early childhood education conference in the world. Each year, tens of thousands of teachers, program administrators, students, and researchers choose from hundreds of presentations
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    Family Online Safety Institute: 2018 Annual Conference

    Nov 15 2018 | Washington, DC | Category: Community
    The 2018 FOSI Annual Conference will see the launch of FOSI’s latest research report, “Online Safety Across the Generations.” Panels will address topics such as screen time and “tech addiction”,
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  • March 2019

  • Society for Research in Child Development 2019 Biennial Meeting

    Mar 21 2019 | Venue Baltimore, MD, Baltimore, MD | Category: Community
    The Society for Research in Child Development hosts its 2019 Biennial Meeting in Baltimore, MD this year. The invited program features scholars from a number of countries (Australia, Germany, Mexico,
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  • April 2019

  • LEGO Idea Conference 2019

    Apr 1 2019 | Category: Community
    The three-day LEGO Idea® conference offers a vibrant, playful and thought-provoking environment for group dialogues and impactful workshops. Participants from around the world come to debate, share insights, inspire and
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    ASU GSV Summit 2019

    Apr 8 2019 | Category: Community, Sesame Workshop presenting
    The ASU GSV Summit draws more than 4,500 leaders in education and talent tech. Attendees at this year’s summit will include CEOs, investors, school, district and university leaders, media, enterprise learning
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  • May 2019

  • 69th Annual International Communication Association Conference

    May 24 2019 | Washington, DC | Category: Community
    The ICA 2019 conference theme of Communication Beyond Boundaries aims for an understanding of the role of communication and media in the crossing of social, political and cultural boundaries that characterize contemporary
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  • June 2019

  • FamLAB

    Reframing Learning Across Boundaries: Building Public Understanding and Support

    Jun 6 2019 | Category: Cooney Center, Cooney Center presenting
    We know that children spend more than 80% of their time outside of school. But research indicates that millions of preschool and school age children—especially those from low-income communities—too often
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    Immersive Media Design and Children Workshop

    Jun 15 2019 | Boise, ID | Category: Cooney Center, Cooney Center presenting
    Immersive Media Design and Children is a one-day workshop to be held at the 2019 Interaction Design and Children Conference in Boise, Idaho.Co-hosted by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center and
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    The Education Market: VR’s Best Hope? at XR for Change Summit

    Jun 17 2019 | Category: Cooney Center, Cooney Center presenting
    On Monday, June 17, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center presents a panel discussion at the XR for Change Summit in New York City. For years, experts have been predicting that
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    NAMLE Conference 2019

    Jun 26 2019 | Washington, DC | Category: Community
    The theme for the 2019 National Association for Media Literacy Education conference is A Path Forward: Elevating Conversation, Unifying Voices. The conference is designed to provide a platform for including
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  • August 2019

  • Play Make Learn 2019

    Aug 8 2019 | Venue Madison, Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin | Category: Community
    The Play Make Learn Conference promotes high-quality learning opportunities for educators, researchers, developers, designers, foundation leaders, policy makers, musuem and library professionals, and school leaders who are dedicated to promoting
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  • October 2019

  • 2019 Connected Learning Summit

    Oct 2 2019 | University of California, Irvine | Category: Community, Cooney Center presenting
    The mission of the Connected Learning Summit is to fuel a growing movement of innovators harnessing emerging technology to expand access to participatory, playful, and creative learning. The Connected Learning
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    CSforALL Summit 2019

    Oct 21 2019 | Category: Community, Cooney Center, Cooney Center presenting, Sesame Workshop presenting
    The CSforALL Summit is a multi-day convening focused on rigorous, inclusive and sustainable computer science for all US students. There will be two plenary sessions where you will hear from
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    The Common Sense Census: Media Use by Tweens and Teens 2019

    Oct 29 2019 | Category: Community, Cooney Center
    The Common Sense Census: Media Use by Tweens and Teens 2019, an update to the 2015 study, is a big-picture look at how young people in America are engaging with
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  • November 2019

  • National Center for Families Learning 2019 Conference

    Nov 4 2019 | Category: Community
    The Families Learning Conference is the premier event focused on innovative strategies and practices in family literacy and learning, two-generation education, and parent and family engagement. Attending the conference will
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    FOSI

    FOSI 2020 Annual Conference

    Nov 21 2019 | Category: Community, Cooney Center presenting
    The Family Online Safety Institute’s 2020 Annual Conference theme is “2020 Vision: The Future of Online Safety.” Leaders from industry, government, law enforcement and non-profits will come together in Washington,
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  • January 2020

  • 2020 NETA Conference & CPB Public Media Thought Leader Forum

    Jan 26 2020 | Arlington, VA | Category: Community, Cooney Center, Cooney Center presenting
    The NETA Conference and CPB Public Media Thought Leader Forum is dedicated to the foundational cornerstone of Public Media: Education. Attendees represent station leadership, education, community engagement, marketing, promotion, production
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  • March 2020

  • Future of Childhood Summit

    Mar 3 2020 | San Francisco, CA | Category: Community, Cooney Center, Cooney Center presenting
    Event postponed   After much deliberation, the Future of Childhood Summit has been postponed. The planning team at Joan Ganz Cooney Center and Google are disappointed not to be able
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    LEGO Idea Conference 2020

    LEGO Idea Conference 2020

    Mar 9 2020 | Billund, Denmark | Category: Community
    Cancelled The LEGO Idea Conference invites thought leaders, practitioners, researchers, government representatives and social innovators to share their insights on new ways of learning that will equip and empower children
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    ASU GSV 2020

    ASU GSV 2020

    Mar 30 2020 | Category: Community
    GSV takes on society’s greatest challenge: Ensuring everyone has an equal opportunity to participate in the future.Started in 2010 with a collaboration between Arizona State University and Global Silicon Valley
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  • July 2020

  • NYAS COVID screentime webinar

    New York Academy of Sciences Webinar: COVID-19: Screen Time and the Developing Brain

    Jul 22 2020 | Online | Category: Cooney Center presenting
    During COVID-19, children are spending more time in front of screens than ever before, with virtual school, video streaming, social media, and multiplayer games. Given that kids’ brains are still
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    Parenting for a Digital Future

    Jul 29 2020 | Category: Community, Cooney Center presenting
    Wednesday, July 29, 2020 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 5pm BSTPlease join the Joan Ganz Cooney Center in celebrating the release of Parenting for a Digital Future, a new
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  • November 2020

  • FOSI

    FOSI 2020 Annual Conference

    Nov 18 2020 | Category: Community, Cooney Center presenting
    This year’s Family Online Safety Institute’s Annual Conference, “Building Resilience,” will cover the many changing elements of online life, for ourselves, our families, and our world. The inherent obstacles and
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    5 rights foundation

    The Future of Free Play in the Digital World

    Nov 20 2020 | Category: Community, Cooney Center
    On World Children’s Day, November 20, 2020, the Digital Futures Commission will launch ‘The future of free play in the digital world.’ The work of the Digital Futures Commission will
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  • March 2021

  • SXSW EDU

    SXSW EDU 2021

    Mar 9 2021
    The Joan Ganz Cooney Center is thrilled to share our work at SXSW EDU this year. Michael Preston and Senior Fellow Mary Madden will present highlights from our research on
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  • April 2021

  • Future of Childhood Reframing Education for the 22nd Century

    Reframing Education for the 22nd Century

    Apr 7 2021 | Category: Community, Cooney Center, Cooney Center presenting
    2020 was a year unlike any we have experienced before … until 2021. We have witnessed the “hoaxification” of the COVID-19 pandemic, massive civic unrest in response to long-tolerated systemic
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  • May 2021

  • The Missing Middle event

    The Missing Middle: Reimagining a Future for Tweens, Teens, and Public Media

    May 25 2021 | Category: Cooney Center, Cooney Center presenting
    Tuesday, May 25, 2021 1:00 PM ET Today’s tweens and teens feel they have outgrown the programming offered by public media as they begin to discover a world of information
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  • July 2021

  • connected learning summit

    Studying Youth and Family Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic at Connected Learning Summit 2021

    Jul 12 2021 | Category: Cooney Center presenting
    As schools around the United States were forced to turn to remote learning methods last spring, research teams around the country mobilized to study how families were adjusting to the
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  • October 2021

  • ARVR Policy Conference

    The Augmented and Virtual Reality Policy Conference

    Oct 21 2021 | Category: Community, Cooney Center presenting
    In the last decade, augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) have evolved from niche tools for enthusiasts and high-tech industries to more widely adopted communications technologies that have the potential to
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    Learning at Home While Under-Connected and the Role of Public Media

    Oct 26 2021 | Category: Community, Cooney Center presenting
    Learning at Home While Under-Connected: Lower-Income Families During the COVID-19 Pandemic follows up on 2016’s Opportunity for All? Technology and Learning in Lower-Income Families to uncover the perspectives of lower-income parents
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  • November 2021

  • By With For Youth Inspiring Next Gen Public Media Audiences

    Next Gen Public Media Accelerator RFP Info Session

    Nov 8 2021 | Category: Cooney Center
    Public media professionals are invited to join us for this one-hour information session about the Next Gen Public Media Accelerator RFP. The session will focus on the purpose of the
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    By With For Youth Inspiring Next Gen Public Media Audiences

    Next Gen Public Media Concept Design Sprint

    Nov 10 2021 | Category: Cooney Center
    This two-hour interactive workshop will help applicants transform their aspirations into compelling proposal concepts. Facilitated by Cooney Center project leaders, applicants will engage in design exercises that help generate ideas
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    By With For Youth Inspiring Next Gen Public Media Audiences

    Next Gen Public Media Concept Design Sprint

    Nov 12 2021 | Category: Cooney Center
    This two-hour interactive workshop will help applicants transform their aspirations into compelling proposal concepts. Facilitated by Cooney Center project leaders, applicants will engage in design exercises that help generate ideas
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  • February 2022

  • Webinar: How to Design a Digital World Where Children Can Thrive

    Feb 8 2022
    On February 8, 2022, the 5Rights Foundation and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association will host an expert panel to discuss how the new IEEE Standard for
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  • March 2022

  • show+tell: promising ventures fellows

    Mar 2 2022
    Join Promise Venture Studio for show+tell: promising ventures fellows, an interactive, virtual event, where participants will hear from and connect with some of the most promising — and innovative —
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    SXSW EDU 2022

    Mar 7 2022 | Austin, TX
    The SXSW EDU Conference & Festival takes place each March in Austin, TX as a four-day event offering compelling sessions, in-depth workshops, engaging learning experiences, mentorship, film screenings, future-focused competitions,
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    IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces

    Mar 12 2022 | Category: Community
    The IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR) is the premier international event for the presentation of research results in the broad areas of virtual, augmented,
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  • April 2022

  • ASU+GSV Summit 2022

    Apr 4 2022 | San Diego & Virtually | Category: Community, Cooney Center presenting, Sesame Workshop presenting
    Started in 2010 with a collaboration between Arizona State University (ASU) and Global Silicon Valley (GSV), the annual ASU+ GSV Summit connects leading minds focused on transforming society and business
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    2022 AERA Annual Meeting

    Apr 21 2022 | San Diego & Virtually | Category: Community
    Each year, the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting is the world’s largest gathering of education researchers and a showcase for groundbreaking, innovative studies in an array of areas. The
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    By/With/For Youth Workshops: Promoting Teen and Tween Collaboration with Public Media

    Apr 26 2022 | Category: Cooney Center presenting
    As part of our By/ With/ For Youth: Inspiring Next Gen Public Media Audiences initiative, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop invites you to mark your calendars for
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    WNET Virtual Event: The Role of Media & Technology in the Future of Education

    Apr 28 2022 | Category: Cooney Center presenting
    How have teachers, parents, and students adapted to effectively teach and learn in the face of the growing digital divide? What resources, innovations, and solutions have emerged that could help
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  • June 2022

  • Dust or Magic Asimolar

    Jun 3 2022 | Venue Monterey, CA, Monterey, CA | Category: Community, Cooney Center
    Dust or Magic Asimolar is an opportunity for participants to catch up on the current state of children’s media, in one of the most beautiful locations in the world by
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  • July 2022

  • Games for Change 2022

    Jul 13 2022 | Category: Community, Cooney Center presenting
    For nearly two decades, the Games for Change Festival has been a destination for developers, educators, researchers, students, and other game-changers who want to make an impact through video games
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    Public Media Development and Marketing Conference 2022

    Jul 19 2022 | Category: Cooney Center presenting
    The Public Media Development and Marketing Conference (PMDMC) is public media’s largest conference devoted to issues surrounding revenue generation, marketing, and management. This year’s conference meets in Chicago. Cooney Center
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  • August 2022

  • All Tech Is Human: Youth, Tech, and Wellbeing Panel + Mixer

    Aug 17 2022 | Category: Community, Cooney Center presenting
    All Tech Is Human and the Australian Embassy in DC are teaming up for a mixer + panel gathering for researchers, designers, advocates, technologists, academics, and more that are working
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  • September 2022

  • Playtest with Kids

    Sep 8 2022 | Category: Community, Cooney Center
    Please join the Children’s Media Association of the Bay Area and the Joan Ganz Cooney Center for a one-hour virtual event featuring the Playtest with Kids toolkit. The free interactive resource features methods and case studies to
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    NETA and CPB Thought Leader Forum 2022

    2022 NETA Conference and CPB Thought Leader Forum

    Sep 18 2022 | Category: Community, Cooney Center presenting
    The NETA Conference is dedicated to providing public media professionals with meaningful and relevant connections to the people and ideas that are at the heart of our mission to educate,
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  • October 2022

  • Group Chat: Teens and Adults in Conversation at Media Literacy Week 2022

    Oct 25 2022 | Category: Cooney Center, Cooney Center presenting
    As part of U.S. National Media Literacy Week, please join the Cooney Center and NAMLE for a “premiere” presentation of three conversations between experts and youth around topics in youth
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    Building Toward Digital Literacy for Children

    Media Literacy Week: Building Toward Digital Well-being for Children

    Oct 26 2022 | Category: Community, Cooney Center presenting
    Join Children’s Media Association, the LEGO Group, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, and NAMLE for an interactive virtual session where we will investigate the questions: what is children’s digital
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  • November 2022

  • FOSI

    FOSI 2022 Annual Conference: Trust & Assurance: Online Safety in an Uncertain World

    Nov 14 2022 | Category: Community, Cooney Center
    This year’s FOSI conference convenes the best online safety thinkers, practitioners, and experts from around the world for high-level discussions and debates, engaging networking opportunities, and a first-class exhibition of
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  • January 2023

  • Gen Z in the Room: Making Public Media By and With Youth for the Future

    Jan 18 2023 | Category: Cooney Center, Cooney Center presenting
    Please join the Joan Ganz Cooney Center on January 18, 2023 for a special presentation celebrating our forthcoming publication, Gen Z in the Room. This report summarizes insights from 30
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  • February 2023

  • From Surviving To Thriving In A Digital World: A Safer Internet Day Chat

    Feb 7 2023 | Category: Community, Cooney Center, Cooney Center presenting
    The National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) and The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop are teaming up to host a webinar and Facebook Live Event with adult
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  • March 2023

  • SXSW 2023

    Mar 10 2023 | Category: Community, Cooney Center, Cooney Center presenting
    The Joan Ganz Cooney Center is thrilled to participate in two sessions at SXSW 2023 this March. If you’re in Austin, we invite you to join us at the JW
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    Designing for Digital Well-Being at SRCD 2023

    Mar 24 2023 | Salt Lake City, UT | Category: Cooney Center presenting
    On Friday, March 24, the Cooney Center’s Senior Director of Research Medha Tare will moderate Designing for Digital Well-being: Frameworks for Optimizing Positive Media Experiences for Children and Families, a
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  • April 2023

  • ASU+GSV Summit

    Designing Tech for Kids’ Well-Being at ASU+GSV 2023

    Apr 18 2023 | San Diego, CA | Category: Community, Cooney Center, Cooney Center presenting
    What does well-being for children in the digital age look like?A growing movement acknowledges that it’s not enough to worry about technology’s potential harm to children; it is time to
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  • May 2023

  • Growing Up Online: Youth Mental Health in a Modern World at Milken Institute Global Conference

    May 3 2023
    The Milken Institute Global Conference takes place May 1-May 3, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. This year’s theme of ‘Advancing a Thriving World’ will tackle the most pressing challenges and
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