…Safe Coalition; Maureen Cooney, Privacy Officer, Sprint; Dane Snowden, Vice President, External & State Affairs, CTIA; Tim Sparapani, Director of Public Policy, Facebook; Alan Simpson, Vice President for Policy, Common Sense Media; and Stephen Balkam, CEO, Family Online Safety Institute. If you’re not able to make the event in person, the FCC will be streaming the forum live on their website. You can also submit questions in advance. Update: Check…

…ording to a recent report published by School Safety Partners, parents who install anti-bullying and anti-sexting software to monitor their kids’ activities online may inadvertently be giving up their family’s privacy. With some companies, parents are essentially granting the company the right to publish all private messages and photos transmitted through the. Also, the company may also reserve the right to notify law enforcement agencies without…

…ama should be spreading. A longer, more detailed version of this thesis is online at http://bit.ly/g8LNOB.     Marc Prensky is an internationally acclaimed speaker, writer, consultant, and designer in the critical areas of education and learning. He is the author of 3 books: Teaching Digital Natives—Partnering for Real Learning (Corwin 2010), Don’t Bother Me Mom — I’m Learning (Paragon House 2005), and Digital Game-Based Learning (McGraw-Hill, 200…

…lesson plans and building robot tutors, mobile devices allow us to create online community spaces for teachers and homeschoolers to share best practices for facilitating hands-on learning. Rather than design for one child and one mouse, we can build collaborative playspaces for many fingers and many voices — the holy grail of intergenerational play. It’s important, however, to remember that this new collaborative model depends on the parent to st…

…r and the Director of Research and Development for Nick Jr.’s Blue’s Clues and Developer of Blue’s Room. She conducted the formative research used in the creation and ongoing production of the series, and its ancillary businesses including publishing, online, magazine, consumer products and special events. Her ground-breaking work was cited in Malcolm Gladwell’s book The Tipping Point. Alice has been nominated for Daytime Emmys for Outstanding Pre…

…re continuously whirring. Rich threads of conversation spun back and forth online and in face-to-face conversation, through the #cooneyforum hashtag and the generous physical space provided by the USC School of Cinematic Arts (even the terrific film soundstages where lunch was held!) During the coming weeks, I’ll be working with the Michael Levine and Rebecca Herr-Stephensen from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, as well as fellow USC Annenberg School…

…rmal learning environments. Beyond the ability to find and use information online, digital literacy encompasses issues of cognitive authority, safety and privacy, creative, ethical, and responsible use and reuse of digital media. We think this is a rich framework for analyzing the important learning that is going on in public libraries, museums and after school programs today.   Contributions that address the several ways digital literacy affects…

…examining how parents and children choose books to read together. Parents, grandparents, and caregivers in the New York area who are interested in participating are invited to sign up online to participate in this study at the NY Hall of Science on Thursday, August 25 and Friday, August 26, 2011: http://svy.mk/quickstudy      …

…in the intersections between technology and children’s media. Previously, she has conducted research on young girls and STEM education, youth interaction in online communities and worked as a Google Policy Fellow on telecommunications policy.  …

…getting physical exercise, while 53% are concerned about their children’s online safety and privacy. And 40% believe that digital media activities infringe on time that would otherwise be spent in face-to-face interactions. … Yet most parents don’t believe their own kids are at risk. Only 18% of parents report that their own children spend too much time with technology. Why the apparent paradox? Parents may be unaware of just how much media their…