Joan Ganz Cooney Center

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

Emerging Technologies Symposium
2012-07-25 - 2012-07-27 | Las Vegas, NV, United States
The Emerging Technologies Symposium is focused on technologies designed to improve online teaching and learning. Its discussions revolve around creative uses and new tools to increase effective learning experiences. Anyone involved in or interested in the potentials of online learning is encouraged to attend. For more information please visit http://sloanconsortium.org/conference/2012/et4online/welcome

Aspen Institute Children's Forum
2012-07-22 - 2012-07-24 | Aspen, CO, United States
The Aspen Institute forum on Children’s Health and Well-being welcomes selected philanthropists, scientists, policy-makers and healthcare practitioners for a policy discussion to advance research and create policies designed to put children first.
For more information please visit http://www.aspeninstitute.org/events/2012/07/22/aspen-institute-childrens-forum-investing-childrens-health-well-being

EdVentures Conference
2012-07-19 - 2012-07-21 | Miami, FL, United States
Organized by the Education Industry Association, this event looks at education industry trends, opportunities for business growth, and leadership from industry experts. The Edventures Conference invites owners and leaders of education centers, schools, and online learning sites for an exciting discussion of important tools to grow and maintain one’s business. For more information, please visit http://www.educationindustry.org/edventures

Psychology of Mathematics in Education
2012-07-18 - 2012-07-22 | Taipei, Taiwan
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 Festival
2012-07-18 - 2012-07-20
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/

International Conference of the Learning Sciences 2012
2012-07-02 08:00 - 2012-07-06 17:00 | Unnamed Venue, Sydney, Australia
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.

ISTE 2012
2012-06-24 - 2012-07-27
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.

American Library Association: Transforming Our Libraries, Ourselves
2012-06-21 - 2012-06-26
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

New Media Consortium Summer Conference
2012-06-12 - 2012-06-15
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/

E3
2012-06-05 - 2012-06-07
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/

The New Coviewing: Co-sponsored by Women in Children's Media
2012-01-23 18:30 - 20:30 | NY, United States
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 who are incorporating the findings into their work in children’s television.

Panelists include:

Michael Levine Ph.D., Executive Director, Joan Ganz Cooney Center
Shelley Pasnick, Director of the Center for Children and Technology, Education Development Center
Lori Takeuchi Ph.D., Director of Research, Joan Ganz Cooney Center
Mindy Brooks, Director of Education and Research, Sesame Workshop
Erica Branch-Ridley, Assistant VP of Platform Innovations, Sesame Workshop & Supervising Producer of Electric Company Broadband
Sarah Wallendjack, Producer, Out of the Blue

Members: Free!
Non-Members: $20

Breakthrough Learning in a Digital Age, the Cooney Centers Annual Leadership Forum
2009-10-24 - 2009-10-28 | Venue The Googleplex, Mountainview, CA, The Googleplex, Mountainview, CA, Select a Country:
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 showcases cutting-edge research — proven and promising models that are challenging decision makers in key sectors to help “refresh and reboot” American global leadership in education. Last year’s forum demonstrated two dozen creative projects that have breakthrough potential at a special “technology playground” that was established at the Googleplex. Children from Global Kids, and BAVC participated in the tech playground.

At the forum, the Cooney Center unveiled the Cooney Center Prizes, a national challenge competition designed to encourage innovation in children’s media through digital media. In addition, the Cooney Center released a new white paper on literacy and learning in a new media age, The Digital Promise: Transforming Learning with Innovative Uses of Technology by Michael H. Levine and Jeanne Wellings.

The forum was hosted by Google, Inc., in cooperation with forum founders: the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, Common Sense Media, and the MacArthur Foundation.

Check out exclusive video interviews and photos.

Logging Into the Playground: How Digital Media Are Shaping Children's Learning
2008-05-08 | Venue McGraw Hill Headquarters, New York City, McGraw Hill Headquarters, New York City
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’ and educators’ attitudes regarding digital media use in young children, a white paper by James Paul Gee, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University and author of What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy, and a “new directions” report on learning for elementary-aged kids in a digital age, featuring interviews with more than 50 experts on literacy, educational media, children and family policy, and industry innovations.
