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Events for September 18, 2024 - November 14, 2023

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Expanding Minds and Opportunities Launch & Webcast

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…

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KidScreen Summit

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  

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Digital Kids Conference

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…

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IndieCade East

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.

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SXSWEdu

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.

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Developing Responsible, Caring, and Balanced Youth Conference

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.

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Consortium for School Networking: Audacious Leadership 2013

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.

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Open Education Week

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.

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GDC 2013: Education Summit

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.

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Early Education and Technology for Children Conference

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.

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Sandbox Summit

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/.

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