Joan Ganz Cooney Center

GLS Conference 9.0
2013-06-11 - 2013-06-14 | University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, Madison, Wisconsin, Select a Country:
This year marks the ninth annual GLS Conference at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The Games+Learning+Society Conference is known as a grass roots “indie” event where the people who create high-quality digital learning media can gather for a serious think about what is happening in the field and how the field can serve the public interest. The aim is to encourage in-depth conversation and social networking across diverse disciplines including game studies, education research, learning sciences, industry, government, educational practice, media design, and business.

Join us for the Inaugural Playful Learning Summit, which takes place on Tuesday, June 11th to promote professional development opportunities to celebrate and deepen educators’ use of games in various educational settings, and foster collaboration among teachers, designers, researchers and others throughout the elementary to higher education continuum.

Find the full program on the GLS Conference website.

New Media Consortium Conference
2013-06-04 - 2013-06-07 | Hilton Head, SC, Select a Country:
The New Media Consortium Summer Conference focuses on the diverse uses of technology in education, from those that drive student engagement, to innovations in creating, sharing, and collaborating on information, to the devices and infrastructure that make it all possible. The conference invites faculty and teachers in new media disciplines, mid- to upper-management personnel, K-12 professionals, and senior technologists for a conversation to discuss the state of education and our roles as innovators. For more information, please visit the official site.

Content in Context 2013
2013-06-02 - 2013-06-05 | Washington, DC, Select a Country:
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 website.

INplay
2013-05-15 - 2013-05-16 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada
INplay is Canada’s premiere kids content conference that focuses on interactive media created for kids from Pre-School through to Tween. From the video game business to the broadcast industry, from toys to toons, the INplay conference brings together leaders in the kids space to learn, network and be inspired by the future of kids interactive digital media.

For more information, please visit the official site.

Atlantic Live: Technologies in Education Forum
2013-05-15 | Washington, DC, Select a Country:
The third annual Technologies in Education Forum is a half-day event that will focus on the policies, tools and technologies that are revolutionizing learning. The day will feature discussions about the latest innovations transforming the classroom, policy changes needed to promote technologies in schools, and ways to prepare students for STEM careers.

Register online at the Atlantic Live site.

EdTech Industry Summit
2013-05-05 - 2013-05-07 | San Francisco, CA, Select a Country:
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 learning and also share findings from the Games for a Digital Age Market Map. For more information, visit the official site.

D Is For Digital: New Vast Wasteland Or Learning Oasis?
2013-05-02 | Ellicott City, Maryland, MD, Select a Country:
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.

National Conference on Family Literacy
2013-04-28 - 2013-04-30 | Louisville, KY, Select a Country:
Hosted by the National Center for Family Literacy, this event invites literacy professionals, educators, policy makers, and philanthropists to discuss approaches, resources, and strategies in literacy and learning. This year the conference will invite writers of the new Common Core Standards to frame the conversations. For more information, please visit the official site.

Sandbox Summit
2013-04-15 - 2013-04-16 | Cambridge, MA, United States
Hosted by MIT, the Sandbox Summit examines how technology affects the ways kids play, learn, and connect. The conference invites industry and media leaders, analysts, journalists, analysts, educators, and parents to a discussion designed to help attendees innovate in this growing sphere. For more information, visit http://sandboxsummit.org/.

Early Education and Technology for Children Conference
2013-04-02 - 2013-04-04 | Salt Lake City, Utah, Select a Country:
The Early Education and Technology for Children Conference invites researchers, policy makers, administrators, and educators together to discuss technology in early childhood education. The conference invites visitors to share research and best practices for how technology can influence early education. For more information, please visit the official site.

GDC 2013: Education Summit
2013-03-25 - 2013-03-29 | Unnamed Venue, San Francisco, CA, Select a Country:
The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is one of the gaming industry’s largest conferences. It is known worldwide as the primary forum where programmers, artists, producers, game designers, audio professionals, business decision-makers and others involved in the development of interactive games gather to exchange ideas and shape the future of the industry. This year’s event features an Education Summit which will explore new approaches to teaching game design and creating game design curriculum.

Digital Media and Learning Conference
2013-03-14 - 2013-03-16 | Chicago, IL, Select a Country:
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 “Democratic Futures: Mobilizing Voices, and Remixing Youth Participation” and will be held between March 14-16, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois.

Joan Ganz Cooney Center Research Fellows Christina Hinton and Anna Ly will lead a panel at the conference on global networking, focusing on how we can use digital media to help children ages 7-11 learn about international issues, connect across cultures, and participate in the global society.

Modern digital technologies provide new avenues for helping children gain these critical skills. At the click of a button, children in different countries can have a virtual playdate, collaborate on a project, or share media about their cultures. This panel brings together experts from technology companies, international NGOs, and nonprofits to discuss innovative initiatives that use technology to help children ages 7-11 learn about international issues, connect across cultures, and participate in the global society.

Open Education Week
2013-03-11 - 2013-03-15 | DC
The Open Education Movement advocates sharing content, reducing barriers to, and increasing access in in education. During Open Education Week, the organization will host free events online and in locations around the world to raise awareness of the movement and its impacts. Participation in all events is free and open to anyone. For more information, please visit the official site.

Consortium for School Networking: Audacious Leadership 2013
2013-03-11 - 2013-03-13 | Unnamed Venue, Washington, DC, Select a Country:
The 2013 Consortium for School Networking Conference focuses on Audacious Leadership and showcases innovative leaders that are creating a new vision of the 21st century learning environment. The conference hopes to bring innovators and educators together to discuss how to make learning more participatory, engaging, and personalized amidst a changing economic and academic landscape. For more information visit their official site.

Developing Responsible, Caring, and Balanced Youth Conference
2013-03-08 - 2013-03-10 | Dedham, MA, Select a Country:
This conference focuses on preparing children to be caring people, ethical workers, and engaged citizens today and in the future amidst the rise of new devices. Hosted by Project Zero, an educational research group at Harvard, the conference invites educators, parents, administrators, and policy makers for exciting discussions and demos of technology in children’s lives. For more information, visit the official site.

SXSWEdu
2013-03-04 - 2013-03-07 | Venue Austin, TX, Austin, TX, United States
SXSWedu seeks to converge the wide variety of stakeholders who share an interest in 21st Century innovation and best practices. The attendees represent not only education professionals including teachers, administrators and university professors, but also business, industry and policy leaders who all share a keen interest in modernizing teaching and learning. For more information, please visit the official site.

IndieCade East
2013-02-15 - 2013-02-17 | NY, NY, Select a Country:
The nation’s largest independent game festival comes to New York to celebrate the importance of indie games in the artistic community and invites artists, designers, and players to a weekend of panels, discussions, and game-design workshops. Co-hosted by the Museum of the Moving Image, IndieCade East will feature a weekend-long game jam for aspiring designers, industry panels, and an evening of game-play for visitors. Learn more.

Digital Kids Conference
2013-02-12 - 2013-02-13 | NY, NY, Select a Country:
The Digital Kids Conference invites media makers, entertainment executives, digital media producers and more to join in a discussion about how to engage children on digital devices. Digital Kids gives companies the critical information they need to build successful online and mobile products and services for kids. Held as part of the Toy Expo, attendees can join in conversations about the shift towards digital and also see new devices before they hit shelves. For more information, please visit the official site.

KidScreen Summit
2013-02-05 - 2013-02-08 | New York, NY, New York, NY, United States
Bringing together top executives and decision makers within children’s entertainment, KidScreen Summit allows participant to engage in thoughtful conversation about the current issues impacting the industry, current market needs and trends, upcoming challenges, and ultimately how to move business forward.

Nearly 1,500 delegates from over 800 companies are expected to participate in the energetic forum with producers, distributors, media buyers, and content creators.

For more information, visit http://summit.kidscreen.com/index.php

Expanding Minds and Opportunities Launch & Webcast
2013-02-05 | Washington, DC, Washington, DC, Select a Country:
Join the Expanded Learning & Afterschool Project at the National Press Club on Tuesday, February 5 for the launch of Expanding Minds and Opportunities: Leveraging the Power of Afterschool and Summer Learning for Student Success, edited by Terry K. Peterson, Ph.D. Expanding Minds is a groundbreaking compendium of studies, reports and commentaries by more than 100 thought leaders including elected officials, educators, researchers, advocates and other prominent authors.

The Cooney Center’s Executive Director Michael H. Levine has co-authored a chapter in this seminal work, which presents more than 400 pages of bold and persuasive evidence from the field that engaging opportunities—drawing from robust partnerships—yield positive outcomes for students and for community and family engagement in learning.

All attendess will receive a complimentary copy of the book, and authors will be available to sign. If you’re unable to make it to Washington, DC, you may sign up to participate in the event via webcast. http://www.expandinglearning.org/expandingminds

BETT 2013: School Leaders Summit
2013-01-30 - 2013-02-02 | London, United Kingdom
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 speaker: details to be announced soon. For more information, see the Bett Show 2013 website.

Dust or Magic Institute
2013-01-20 - 2013-01-22 | Lambertville, PA, Select a Country:
For the 12th year, designers and researchers interested in children’s interactive media will meet at the Inn at Lambertville Station to explore examples of the latest children’s interactive media.

The three day event — equivalent to a graduate level course — includes sessions on child development applied to interactive media, plus demos, critiques, testing and brainstorming sessions. Sessions are being created by designers, reviewers and researchers in the children’s interactive media space.

Learn more and view the schedule: http://www.childrenssoftware.com/dustormagic/

(Due to the effects of Hurricane Sandy, the Institute was rescheduled from its original date in November 2012.)

Kids@Play Summit at CES
2013-01-08 - 2013-01-11 | Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, Select a Country:
The annual Kids@Play Summit for industry professionals in related fields will meet at the Consumer Electronics Show this January at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The summit will include three exhibit days as well as a conference on January 9, 2013, which features several experts in the field of digital media for children and topics such as the transformation of play, interactive media use, learning, and communication in a digital age. Speakers include the keynote speaker, Nolan Bushnell (Founder of Atari Corporation and Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Time Theater) as well as previous Joan Ganz Cooney Center Fellow, Carly Schuler.

For more information, visit the Kids@Play Summit website.

For more information on the Consumer Electronics Show, visit the CES website.

National Association for the Education of Young Children Conference
2012-11-07 - 2012-11-10 | Unnamed Venue, Atlanta, GA, Select a Country:
The NAEYC Annual Conference & Expo invites teachers, researchers, administrators and anyone involved in early childhood education for a unique professional development opportunity. The conference exposes attendees to the latest research and best practices in early childhood education and offers a comprehensive networking experience. This year’s conference will focus on Developmentally Appropriate Practices in the 21st century. For more information please visit http://www.naeyc.org/conference/.

Grantmakers for Education 2012
2012-10-24 - 2012-10-26 | DC
The Grantmakers for Education’s annual conference, Embracing the Power of Education: Fulfilling the American Dream, will be held October 24-26 in New York City. The conference gathers philanthropists to strengthen the American dream of creating opportunities “through systemic reform, system alignment, innovation and creativity, and to create genuine opportunities for students of color and those most at risk of being left behind by today’s challenging economy.”

For more information, visit http://edfunders.org/programs/conference/2012conference/index.asp

National Association for the Education of Young Children Conference
2012-10-07 - 2012-10-10 | Atlanta, GA, United States

World Maker Faire New York 2012
2012-09-29 - 2012-09-30 | DC
World Maker Faire returns to the New York Hall of Science in Queens, New York this fall with more than 500 exhibits showcasing the creativity and innovation in technology, craft, science, fashion, art, food and more. Learn how to solder and pick locks, among other skills and attend presentations by speakers including Chris Anderson, David Pogue, Massimo Banzi and Dale Dougherty.

Learn more and buy tickets: http://makerfaire.com/newyork/2012/index.html

Serious Play Conference
2012-08-21 - 2012-09-23 | WA, United States
This year’s Serious Play Conference speakers include leading thinkers, consultants, authors and analysts in the serious games industry as well as project directors already creating sims and games for education, corporate and military training, healthcare and non profits. Highlights for this year include new research on the market and growth trends for the serious games industry and presentations of the latest measurement and assessment strategies.
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Partnership for Global Learning Conference
2012-07-29 08:00 - 2012-07-30 17:00 (America/New_York) | NY, United States
The Asia Society Partnership for Global Learning annual conference focuses on preparing American students to be globally competent and college-ready. With a theme of “Pathways to Global Competence,” this event invites educators, business leaders, policymakers and more to network and discuss pathways to global competence. For more information please visit http://sites.asiasociety.org/pgl2012/

EdMedia 2012
2012-07-26 08:00 - 2012-07-29 17:00 | Unnamed Venue, Denver, CO, United States
The EdMedia World Conference on Educational Media and Technology focuses on distance education, multimedia, and hypermedia in education. Organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), the conference invites researchers, students and interested parties to focus on research, development, and applications. For more information, please visit
EdMedia
