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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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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/.
