Here are some upcoming events that we think will be of interest to our readers. If you would like to submit an event to be listed here, please contact us.
The Psychology of Mathematics Education invites its members to Taipei for a discussion of "Opportunities to Learn in Mathematics Education." The conference hopes to spark innovation in how math education is developed and promoted. For more information please visit
Games for Change, the leading advocate for supporting and making games for social impact, is celebrating the organization’s new found global reach at this year’s 9th Annual Games for Change Festival at the NYU Skirball Center June 20-22. Use promo code "cooney" to save 10% off the registration fee. http://www.gamesforchange.org/
Sponsored by the International Society of the Learning Sciences, this conference invites researchers in the sciences of learning, instruction and design for a discussion of understanding and improving learning. This year's event focuses on the "Future of Learning" and seeks to examine how the learning sciences can and should impact the future of learning. For more information please visit their official site.
Geared towards educators and edtech professionals, ISTE invites the education technology to panels, discussions, and speakers focused on professional development and networking. This year's conference looks at "Expanding Horizons" for strategies and tools to bring technology further into education. For more information, please visit their official site.
Geared towards the library community, the 2012 ALA conference brings together educators, authors, librarians and more for a lively discussion on improving and advancing our libraries. At this year's President's Program, Lori Takeuchi, our Research Director, will share her findings from Families Matter, a study on parent attitudes towards digital technologies. For more information, please visit http://alaannual.org
This summer's New Media Consortium Conference brings together academics, stakeholders and technologists from museums and universities to discuss blending technology with teaching, learning, and creative inquiry. Focused on topics relating to higher education, K-12 Education, and Museums and Informal Learning., this conference hopes to spark innovation and reflection on the future of new media. For more information, please visit http://conference.nmc.org/
This year's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) takes place June 5-7 in Los Angeles, California. This trade show, hosted by the Entertainment Software Association, U.S. association dedicated to serving the business and public affairs needs of companies that publish interactive games for video game consoles, handheld devices, personal computers, and the Internet. Executive Director Michael Levine will speak at the third Annual Games and Learning Roundtable, a public-private partnerships policy workshop on June 5. http://www.e3expo.com/
Produced by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop and LIFE Center at Stanford University, this report explores the challenges and successes of bringing families together around newer forms of media and offers essential advice to media producers interested in engaging children, parents, grandparents, and educators in meaningful conversation and play in this digital age. Following a walk-through of the study, we'll hear from a selection of panelists involved in the research and case studies, as well as producers…
Forty years after the "War on Poverty" and twenty-five years after "A Nation at Risk," a new forum was designed to advance a paradigm for learning that harnesses the largely untapped potential of digital media Breakthrough Learning in a Digital Age is an ongoing forum that convenes thought leaders in science and technology, informal and formal education, entertainment media, research, philanthropy, and policy to create a new strategy for scaling-up effective models of teaching and learning for children. The forum…
The Cooney Center's inaugural leadership forum was held at The McGraw-Hill Corporate Headquarters on May 9th, 2008. Key leaders from the fields of research, industry, policy, philanthropy, and education convened to examine how recent research and experimentation with interactive media such as games, mobile technologies, and other platforms can accelerate children’s literacy learning. Electronic Arts’ Bing Gordon delivered the keynote. The Center also released recent research and reports, including a national survey conducted with Common Sense Media that examines parents’…
