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Webinar: How and Why to Integrate STEM into Early Childhood Education

Wednesday, March 15 | 6pm ET This online event is open to the public. Researchers and educators agree: Children demonstrate a clear readiness to engage in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) learning early in life. And, just as with language and literacy, STEM education should start early in order to maximize its benefits and effectiveness.
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Webinar: What’s Next for STEM Education? Boosting Teachers and Teaching

Thursday, March 16 | 1pm-2:30pm ET This online event is open to the public. There is a national consensus that today’s students need more opportunities to build skills in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) across the PreK-12 grade span. Teachers are a critical piece for providing those opportunities, but barriers abound. How are teachers recruited?
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Cyberlearning 2017: What’s Next? Making Connections to Shape the Future

Cyberlearning 2017 will facilitate connections among Cyberlearning researchers across disciplines and with practitioners and stakeholders. Together, attendees will envision a strong path forward for cyberlearning research, taking into account their aspirations and today’s uncertainties. The program will provide opportunities to share insights on cyberlearning designs, genres, and research methods. Learn more and register for the
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Scratch Day

Scratch Day is a global network of events where people gather to celebrate Scratch, the free coding platform and online community for kids. Scratch Day events bring together young people from the Scratch community to share projects, learn from each other, and welcome newcomers. This year’s celebration is during the month of May. Look for
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Fred Forward Symposium 2017

Founded to bridge and build the fields of early learning and children’s media, the Fred Forward Conference brings together researchers, technologists, media creators, educators, and advocates, to explore current and emerging issues impacting the healthy development of children birth to age 8. The goals of the Fred Forward Symposium are to provide a forum to
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Invention & Intervention: Blending Research with Practice to Develop Effective Media for Youth

By bringing together media producers, industry researchers, and children’s media scholars from around the world, the intent of this preconference is to: provide guidance and information to academic researchers on the types of research currently conducted within the children’s media industry; identify how academic researchers might be influential in conducting research that will drive more
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67th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association

The theme of the 67th annual International Communications Association conference is Interventions: Communication Research and Practice. The conference takes place in San Diego from May 25-29. Cooney Center Senior Fellow Sarah Vaala will present “Parents’ reactions to Descriptions of Children’s Apps: Results from a Parent Survey Experiment”  in a panel chaired by Matthew A. Lapierre and
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Dust or Magic App Camp

A gathering of top children’s interactive designers, editors and reviewers who review the year and critique the field. The reviewers share what they’ve seen and explain what they like. The publishers demonstrate their latest apps. What do you do at App Camp? Give demos and get feedback from an expert audience. Meet old friends, and
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Jean Piaget Society Annual Meeting 2017

The 47th Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society takes place in San Francisco, CA from June 8-10, 2017. This year’s theme is Technologies and Human Development, wth a lens on child, youth, and adult learning and development with games, social media, digital archives as cultural tools. Reesearcher Tamara Spiewak Toub will present “Navigating the world
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NAEYC 2017 Professional Learning Institute

This year’s NAEYC Professional Learning Institute takes place in San Francisco, CA. This conference is designed for all early childhood professionals, including leaders who prepare, mentor, and support early childhood professionals, as well as program administrators, teacher educators, trainers, teachers, and researchers. Participants explore the expanding early childhood knowledge base, developing skills that improve professional preparation and
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American Library Association 2017 Conference

The ALA is the oldest and largest library association in the world and holds its Annual Conference & Exhibition each summer. As the world’s biggest library event, it brings together up to 25,000 librarians and library staff, educators, authors, publishers, Friends of Libraries, trustees, special guests and exhibitors to engage and participate in the ongoing
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