LEGO Idea Conference 2020
2020-03-09 - 2020-03-11 | Billund, Denmark
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 to become creative, engaged, lifelong learners. Each LEGO Idea Conference features some of the most inspiring and influential speakers on topics related to learning, education and early childhood development. From young protagonists trying to change the system to established voices who are part of a deep-rooted way of thinking about learning and education.

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ASU GSV 2020
2020-03-30 - 2020-04-01
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 (GSV), the annual ASU GSV Summit is the industry catalyst for elevating dialogue and driving action around raising learning and career outcomes through scaled innovation. ASUGSV website

New York Academy of Sciences Webinar: COVID-19: Screen Time and the Developing Brain
2020-07-22 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | Online
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 developing, should parents be concerned? What are the long-term effects? Is there such a thing as too much screen time? What will happen to kids and teens in a post-COVID world? How will they adjust to a life with less screen time? This panel will bring together experts in pediatrics, education, and digital media to discuss the effects of extensive screen time on the developing brain.

Speakers: Michael Preston, PhD, Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop; Sonia Livingstone, Dphil, The London School of Economics and Political Science; Jenny Radesky, MD, University of Michigan Medical School; and Michael Robb, PhD, Common Sense Media.

The event is free for NYAS members and $10 for non-members.

Learn more about the webinar and register here.

Parenting for a Digital Future
2020-07-29 12:00 - 13:00
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 book by Sonia Livingstone and Alicia Blum-Ross that offers a balanced, in-depth exploration of the realities of parenting today. The authors will be joined by Anya Kamenetz, an education correspondent for NPR and author of The Art of Screen Time in a conversation hosted by Michael Preston, Executive Director of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center.

Together, they will discuss the challenges facing parents as they grapple with a digital age that is full of both opportunity and risk. What does a child’s growing independence mean in terms of digital technology, when the risks of online activity may be eclipsed by the public health dangers of the pandemic? Where do parents of tweens go for advice?

The event is free and open to the public.

Register here»
Learn more about Parenting for a Digital Future here »
Learn more about The Art of Screen Time here »

Speakers:

Sonia
Livingstone
Alicia
Blum-Ross
Anya
Kamenetz
Michael
Preston

FOSI 2020 Annual Conference
2020-11-18
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 vast benefits of the digital world have become apparent to all of us now more than ever, and we look forward to the new challenge of examining these issues against the backdrop of a quickly changing social and cultural landscape.

Join Cooney Center Senior Fellow Mary Madden in a fireside chat with Facebook’s Antigone Davis at 1:15 PM ET.

For more information and to register, visit https://www.fosi.org/events/2020-annual-conference

The Future of Free Play in the Digital World
2020-11-20 08:00 - 17:00
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 be introduced by Baroness Beeban Kidron, 5Rights Foundation, followed by a panel discussion chaired by Professor Sonia Livingstone OBE, London School of Economics, with Ann Phoenix, Kate Cowan, and Chris Batemen, to mark #WorldChildrensDay. They will introduce Digital Futures with a panel exploring the future of free play in the digital world.

November 20, 2020 11:00 AM-12 PM GMT (6:00 AM EST)

Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gxTYaQ-3TPiUsaLHX37-GQ

SXSW EDU 2021
2021-03-09 - 2021-03-11
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 youth media practices in this conversation with Debra Sanchez (Corporation for Public Broadcasting) and Milton Chen (Edutopia.org, Sesame Workshop, Kellogg Foundation).

Tweens, Teens, & Public Media: The Missing Middle.

While most young kids watch PBS, they leave public media behind in their tween and teen years. But youth still need engaging and educational content as they form their identities, opinions, and sense of purpose. With its mission to inform and educate, public media must envision a future in which young people are equipped with the knowledge and skills to build the world they want to live in. We’ll discuss our latest research and how public media can serve this “missing middle” audience.

The session will be broadcast on the SXSW EDU platform on March 10, 2021 at 10:30am CT.

For more information and to register, visit sxswedu.com

Reframing Education for the 22nd Century
2021-04-07
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 racism and injustice, continued denial of climate change in spite of an increasingly inhospitable natural environment, and most recently, a violent insurrection seeking to disrupt democracy and encourage authoritarianism.At the root of these issues is more than a conflict between change and the status quo: it’s the difference between equitable and sustainable societies and life-threatening imbalances in power and privilege.One critical challenge is that our education systems are fundamentally designed to advance individualistic goals over collective success. Even “21st century skills,” such as collaboration and communication, are implemented in ways that fall short of their goals. As educators, we have a moral imperative to rethink our work so that children are prepared to bend, if not upend, the arc of history toward progress for the common good.Education should foster in each and every child an egalitarian mindset — a positive sense of oneself as a worthy individual rooted in valued cultural traditions, able and disposed to construct a view of reality from multiple perspectives and act in collaboration with others toward the common good. To develop an egalitarian mindset, we might consider these questions:
School climate and culture: What features of present-day school structures and cultures should students never or rarely experience?

Pedagogy, Curriculum and Assessment: What about current teachers and teaching, curriculum, and assessment should students never or rarely experience?

Technology: What should be the normative experience of every child with regard to technology, including AI? What should they never or rarely experience?
How would these changes lead to egalitarian mindsets?The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop and the Center for Global Education at Asia Society invite you to participate in a series of provocative conversations with the goal of reframing the purpose of education as the foundation for a social movement toward equality and sustainability. We hope that you will join us.Dates: Wednesday, April 7, 14, and 28 (Skipping April 21)
Time: 1 PM US EDT for 75 minutes
Format: A weekly series of salons encouraging the free flow of ideas around how to build an education system for the 22nd century focused on the common good. In partnership with

The Missing Middle: Reimagining a Future for Tweens, Teens, and Public Media
2021-05-25 13:00 - 14:00
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 and entertainment at their fingertips. Yet even though they have access to an abundance of options for watching, listening, playing, and communicating, they are often underserved by quality content appropriate to their developmental stages and needs.

The Joan Ganz Cooney Center and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting have partnered to better understand how young people are engaging with media today. As part of our By/With/For Youth: Inspiring Next Gen Public Media Audiences project, we spoke with 50 tweens and teens across the U.S. about how they spend their time, what they find interesting, how they find new shows, apps, or videos, what issues are important to them, as well as what misconceptions adults have about youth. We asked them for their advice about what media producers should do if they want to engage with people their age, and we talked about how their lives have changed during the pandemic.

Please join us as we discuss our findings to be published in our forthcoming report, The Missing Middle: Reimagining a Future for Tweens, Teens, and Public Media on Tuesday, May 25 at 1pm. This event is free and open to the public.Learn more and register here»

Speakers:

Monica Bulger, Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop

Mimi Ito, Director, Connected Learning Lab, University of California, Irvine

Mary Madden, Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop

Michael Preston, Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop

Debra Sanchez, Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Studying Youth and Family Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic at Connected Learning Summit 2021
2021-07-12 14:00 - 15:00
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 pandemic. Join the Cooney Center, Stanford University, the University of Washington, and the University of Michigan at the Connected Learning Summit for a discussion about family learning as aided by technology during the pandemic, as well as how we as researchers can study such learning remotely. The symposium will take place on 2pm ET on July 12, 2021.Studying Youth and Family Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Learn more about the Connected Learning Summit

The Augmented and Virtual Reality Policy Conference
2021-10-21
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 transform the way people communicate, collaborate, and learn. As AR/VR solutions gain traction across sectors, they will raise important policy considerations-some of which are already a part of broader tech policy discussions, while others will be unique to these technologies. Through a series of expert talks and panels, this half-day virtual conference organized by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation and the XR Association will explore the role of policy in AR/VR innovation and identify priority areas for policymakers to consider as these technologies continue to expand.
JGCC Executive Director Michael Preston will be speaking beginning at 1:25 PM EST on Thursday, October 21st, as part of the Lightning Round: Priorities for an AR/VR Policy Agenda panel.

Register for the conference here.

Learning at Home While Under-Connected and the Role of Public Media
2021-10-26
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 with children ages 3 to 13. In March and April 2021, researchers Vikki Katz and Victoria Rideout led a national survey of more than 1,000 parents. The report delves into the experiences that these families had while many children were learning at home during a time when many school buildings were closed. It provides timely, pointed, and thought-provoking insights on the challenges of being under-connected when trying to support young students at home without adequate devices and internet connections.From the earliest days of the pandemic, public media organizations around the country mobilized to address the needs of their communities. This panel will explore the role that local public media stations can play in diagnosing community needs and sharing learning resources for all children and families.

The webinar will take place on Oct. 26, 2021 at 12:00 PM EST.

Next Gen Public Media Accelerator RFP Info Session
2021-11-08 13:00 - 15:00
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 RFP, an overview of its guiding priorities, the key activities that will happen during the Next Gen Public Media Accelerator, and opportunities for potential applicants to ask questions about the opportunity.
Monday, Nov. 8, 202
1:00 PM ET

View the session recording here.

Next Gen Public Media Concept Design Sprint
2021-11-10
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 that align with Next Gen Public Media Accelerator goals and expectations.

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Wednesday, November 10, 2021
1:00- 3:00 PM ET
Register here

Next Gen Public Media Concept Design Sprint
2021-11-12 13:00 - 15:00
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 that align with Next Gen Public Media Accelerator goals and expectations.

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Friday, Nov. 12, 2021
1:00 – 3:00 PM ET

Register here.

Webinar: How to Design a Digital World Where Children Can Thrive
2022-02-08
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 an Age-Appropriate Digital Services Framework Based on the 5Rights Principles for Children (IEEE 2089™-2021) will equip organizations with the tools to put young people’s best interests at the heart of the design of digital products and services. By following the practical steps outlined in this new framework, designers can ensure that children are catered for in the digital world.

Register for the event here

show+tell: promising ventures fellows
2022-03-02
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 — in the early childhood development (ECD) space, the ventures of the third cohort of Promise’s highly selective promising ventures fellowship. These ventures – led by diverse leaders and spanning birth equity, early literacy/education, community support, ECE workforce development, and policy – have done incredible work to meet the moment and support their communities during an unprecedented time in our history. Join us to learn more about their work and impact, and ways in which you can engage with and support their work, and the work of the broader ECD space.

March 2, 2022 1:00 pm ET/10:00 am PT Zoom

Learn more about the event and register here.Are you a philanthropic funder or investor? Immediately following Show+Tell, Promise is hosting a deep dive event for funders and investors to meet the leaders of the team, learn more about their work, and ask questions in small group breakouts. You can register for that event at the link above as well!

SXSW EDU 2022
2022-03-07 - 2022-03-10 | Austin, TX, Austin, Texas
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, an expo, networking opportunities, and so much more. This year, the dates are March 7th-10th. SXSW EDU 2022 will be a hybrid event with an online component.

Register for the event here.

IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces
2022-03-12 - 2022-03-16
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, and mixed reality (VR/AR/XR). Since 1993, IEEE VR has presented groundbreaking research and accomplishments by virtual reality pioneers: scientists, engineers, designers, and artists, paving the way for the future. This event will be held entirely virtually from March 12th-16th.

To register, click here.

ASU+GSV Summit 2022
2022-04-04 - 2022-04-06 | San Diego & Virtually
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 around learning and work. Their north star is that ALL people have equal access to the future.

The Joan Ganz Cooney Center and Sesame Workshop are presenting a number of sessions:

TIP OF THE SPEAR: EARLY CHILDHOOD (IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SESAME WORKSHOP)TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 2022 11:00 am – 11:40 am COVID, Innovation, and the Future of Early Childhood Education 2:10 pm – 2:50 pm Playtest with Kids, a New Free Online Resource from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center 3:00 pm – 3:40 pm The Growing Importance of Social & Emotional Development and Learning 3:50 pm – 4:30 pm Co-design with Kids: Enabling Meaningful Child Participation in the Private Sector in a Digital Era 4:40 pm – 5:20 pm Kids Media Confronts the “New Normal”: What Blended Learning Will Look Like Post-Pandemic WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2022 10:10 am – 10:50 am Early Childhood AI and Voice WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2022 11:00 am – 11:40 am The Edge of Early Childhood Education

The conference will be held simultaneously virtually on HopIn and in-person in San Diego, CA, from April 4-6, 2022. To register to attend virtually, click here. To register to attend in person in San Diego, click here.

2022 AERA Annual Meeting
2022-04-21 - 2022-04-26 | San Diego & Virtually
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 2022 Annual Meeting is a dual-component conference with sessions offered on-site in San Diego, CA, and other sessions offered on a virtual platform. This year’s meeting theme is “Cultivating Equitable Education Systems for the 21st Century.”

The conference will take place Thursday, April 21 – Tuesday, April 26 in San Diego and virtually. To register for the event, click here.

By/With/For Youth Workshops: Promoting Teen and Tween Collaboration with Public Media
2022-04-26 - 2022-07-13
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 an upcoming series of capacity-building workshops about collaborating with youth in public media. Designed for producers, directors, and others committed to growing youth participation in public media, the workshops will highlight research-backed best practices for engaging tweens and teens. Attendees will leave each virtual workshop with examples of youth engagement work from outside of the public media ecosystem and will hear from program leaders and youth about impactful approaches. Each workshop will be 90 minutes long. During the first 30 minutes, researchers from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center and panel guests will share research and related program examples. Participants will then take part in working sessions with break-out groups to reflect and consider how to apply insights to their contexts. Please join us. More details regarding speakers will be announced in the coming weeks.

Workshop III: Content and Platform Innovation with Youth /July 13, 2022, 1:00 pm EST
Now more than ever, youth are looking for opportunities to use media in creative, interactive ways. Whether creating videos, spearheading social media campaigns, or sharing original artwork, today’s youth are proficient content creators and sharers. In order to reach youth audiences, public media creators are finding innovative ways to engage youth as not only viewers, but as co-creators as well.Drawing on research about youth-adult collaboration, and insights from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center’s Next Gen research, this workshop will provide content creators with effective strategies for engaging in collaborative projects with youth.Dr. Yalda T. Uhls, professor at UCLA and founder of The Center for Scholars and Storytellers, will join as a featured speaker, along with members of the Center’s youth engagement team. They will share insights about ways in which adults and youth can co-design innovative media projects.

The Joan Ganz Cooney Center’s youth fellows will also share their areas of expertise, providing creators with ideas for ways in which they can engage with youth who have diverse technical and creative skillsets.

Previous Workshops:

Models of Youth-Adult Collaboration for Public Media / April 26, 2022
Ben Kirshner, Professor of Learning Sciences and Human Development at the University of Colorado Boulder, will discuss his work with CU Engage, a center at the University of Colorado that works with community groups to address complex public challenges through academic courses, research projects, and creative work. Ben will discuss his experiences developing equity-oriented partnerships with youth organizations and his approach to youth-adult partnerships.
We’ll also hear from Molly Josephs, the founder of This Teenage Life podcast, and youth crew members about what it takes to create an authentically collaborative experience for young contributors.

Understanding Youth: A Prerequisite for Creating Programs By/For/With Tweens and Teens /May 26, 1:00 pm EST
Public media stations know young children well, informed by decades of work and research. Work with tweens and teens, on the other hand, is new for most. Learning about this Next Gen audience requires relationships and connections– with youth themselves, with others doing this work, and with research– in order to generate insights that inspire experimentation and innovation. Drawing from the Cooney Center’s upcoming research brief, Understanding Youth: A Prerequisite for Creating Programs By/For/With Tweens and Teens, this workshop will help stations consider strategies for deepening understanding about youth. Dr. Jason Yip, associate professor of digital youth at The Information School at the University of Washington and Director of KidsTeam UW, will join as a featured speaker. Dr. Yip will share insights on participatory co-design of new technologies with youth, including equity-based strategies for relationship-building and adult roles of facilitation and support. Participants will engage in small-group breakout sessions to share approaches for centering youth needs and building connections with t(w)eens, partners, and research in order to strengthen work and innovate new approaches.

WNET Virtual Event: The Role of Media & Technology in the Future of Education
2022-04-28
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 us strengthen and transform our education systems going forward?

Join preeminent experts in the field to examine these questions and more, as we look to a brighter, more equitable future for education.

Moderated by award-winning journalist Hari Sreenivasan, the panel will include:

• Jean-Claude Brizard, President and CEO, Digital Promise

• Dr. Angela Haydel DeBarger, Program Officer, Education, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

• Michael Preston, Ph.D., Senior Vice President and Executive Director, Joan Ganz Cooney Center

• Ron C. Smith, Ed.D., Senior Director, Education Initiatives, Salesforce

• LaVerne Evans Srinivasan, Vice President, National Program, and Program Director, Education, Carnegie Corporation of New York

This free virtual event takes place at 5:30 pm ET. Register here.

Dust or Magic Asimolar
2022-06-03 08:00 - 2022-06-05 17:00 | Venue Monterey, CA, Monterey, CA
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 way of talks, laser critiques and demos. Dust or Magic has a long tradition of deep dive conversations and honest critiques in a commercial-free setting. Participants leave with a sense of where things have been, and where they are going framed in child development theory. Watch this overview video from previous Dust or Magic events at Asilomar.

The Cooney Center is proud to present the Playtest with Kids toolkit at Dust or Magic.

Games for Change 2022
2022-07-13 - 2022-07-16
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 or immersive media. This year, the Festival is back in person in New York City on July 13-14, and then online from July 15-16.

Please join the Cooney Center for our panel on XR and learning!
XR’s Potential for Student-Centered Learning
Date: Thursday, July 14
Session Time: 1:45 PM – 2:30 PM EDT
Location: The Microsoft Technology Center (11 Times Sq, New York, NY, 10036) Immersive media is relatively new to the classroom but has the potential to inspire and empower students and educators. Our panel of teachers, developers, and researchers will explore XR’s potential for engagement and impact, immersive media experiences that support student-centered learning, and the results of the XRA’s recent survey of teenagers on their understanding and use of XR technologies. Michael Preston, ED, Joan Ganz Cooney Center
Peirce Clark, XRA
Idris Brewster, Movers and Shakers NYC
Ellen Flaherty, Unity
Kevin Merges, Rutgers Prep Learn more and register.

Public Media Development and Marketing Conference 2022
2022-07-19 - 2022-07-21
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 Senior Fellow Elizabeth Rood will speak on a panel on July 20 at 3:30 pm to share findings from our Next Gen Public Media research:

New Platforms & New Audiences: Engaging Gen Z for Long-Term Sustainability
Public media stations across the country are launching projects and initiatives to engage a long-neglected audience – the Missing Middle or Gen Z tweens/teens who have graduated from PBS Kids programming. Stations are experimenting with new production models to meet these younger audiences where they are – on TikTok, in podcasts, and other non-traditional content platforms. How can stations use these new initiatives and platforms to “patch” a leak in our audience and (eventual) donor pipeline for long-term sustainability?
With:
Kay Coz, Director of Institutional Giving, The WNET Group
Amanda Granger, Director of Community Engagement, The WNET Group
Anne Guttridge, Associate Producer | Twin Cities PBS/TPT
Elizabeth Rood, Senior Fellow, Joan Ganz Cooney Center
Learn more

All Tech Is Human: Youth, Tech, and Wellbeing Panel + Mixer
2022-08-17
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 at the intersection of technology, wellbeing, and youth. This will be a 2-hour panel + mixer for 75 org leaders, researchers, youth advocates, Trust & Safety professionals, academics, designers, entrepreneurs, and more!

Speakers include the Cooney Center’s Senior Director of Research Medha Tare, PhD, Zoom’s Counsel on the Trust & Safety team Chanel Cornett, and Arielle Geismar, an organizer around mental health, social media wellbeing, and women’s & LGBTQ+ rights.

Learn more.

Playtest with Kids
2022-09-08
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 help teams get actionable insights when playtesting their products with children. We’ll talk with experts who will share what they’ve learned about how to effectively gather insights from kids (including remotely!) and how playtesting has impacted their product design. Come prepared to learn and to ask questions!
Thursday, September 8, 2022
2:30 pm PT / 5:30 pm ET
Please see the Children’s Media Association site for details.

2022 NETA Conference and CPB Thought Leader Forum
2022-09-18 - 2022-09-22
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, engage, and entertain. This year’s event is a hybrid conference, taking place September 18-22, 2022, in Charlotte, NC and online.

The Cooney Center is pleased to present “A Seat at the Table for Tweens and Tweens in Public Media: Lessons from Established Youth Programs,” featuring some early results from a field study conducted with public media stations across the country. Based on both quantitative and qualitative data gathered from over 200 public media stations, this study aims to create a baseline understanding of where the field is at in 2022 when it comes to tween and teen programs, content, and engagement. Following a presentation of findings, the session will invite participants to think together about its implications: What do they want to see happen to support greater impact when it comes to youth audiences? Where do they think the field should go? And how do they want to be a part of it?Learn more and register for the conference here.

Group Chat: Teens and Adults in Conversation at Media Literacy Week 2022
2022-10-25 - 2022-10-27
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 digital culture, moderated by educator Dwight Dunston. Together, adults and teens explore issues like what kids are watching online, where they get their news, how they maintain a sense of well-being in the digital world, and what it’s like to collaborate with public media professionals to produce content. We hope you and your colleagues will log on and join us live! Registration is free.

Group Chat: Adolescent Well-being Online
Tuesday, October 25, 12:00 pm ET
It’s no secret that teens are deeply immersed in online spaces – for better and for worse. How do their online activities impact their well-being? Emily Weinstein and Carrie James from Project Zero surveyed 3,500 teens to understand how youth today must navigate their digital lives. Next Gen Public Media Youth Fellows Faiza Ashar and Jaden Thompson share their own perspectives as young people who are trying to figure things out for themselves.

Group Chat: Youth Creators in Public Media
Wednesday, October 26, 12:00 pm ET
Public media stations around the country are offering unique opportunities for young people to produce content. In this Group Chat, teens from WNET’s Youth Collective “Amplify Series” and MPB’s Student Council Podcast join Hannah Dawe (WNET, public media station in New York City) and Jasmine Harvey (Mississippi Public Broadcasting) to give us the scoop on what it’s like behind the scenes when adults and youth collaborate in the studio.Group Chat: Youth Digital Culture
Thursday, October 27, 12:00 pm ET
What do young people really think about what they’re seeing online? Monica Anderson (Pew Research Center) and Joan Mukogosi (Data & Society) chat with Next Gen Public Media Youth Fellows Gabby Rodriguez and Audrey Gage about the platforms they use, how they find community online, and where they get their news.

Register for these sessions and more at the 2022 U.S. Media Literacy Week event site.
