Description
This discussion focuses on using data to gain insights on today’s audience of learners and strategies for stations to anticipate their needs in the years ahead.
Speakers
Linda Burch, Co-Founder and Chief Education and Strategy Officer, Common Sense Media. Ms. Burch leads the organization’s efforts to provide parents and educators with information, advice, and tools to help harness the power of media and technology as a positive force in all kids’ lives.
Kevin Clark, Professor of Learning Technologies and Founding Director of the Center for Digital Media Innovation and Diversity at George Mason University. Dr. Clark’s research focuses on the role of interactive and digital media in education, broadening participation in STEM, and issues of diversity in children’s media.
Mimi Ito, MacArthur Foundation Chair in Digital Media and Learning at the University of California Irvine. Dr. Ito is a cultural anthropologist and author of “Participatory Culture in a Networked Era” and “Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Youth Living and Learning with New Media”. Dr. Ito’s career as a cultural anthropologist focuses on technology use and examining children and youth’s changing relationships to media and communications.
Additional Resources:
- Mimi Ito’s book (with Henry Jenkins and danah boyd) Participatory Culture in a Networked Era: A Conversation on Youth, Learning, Commerce, and Politics
- Practical applications of technology as a key to reducing the digital divide among African-American youth
- Common Sense Media Handout
- Kevin Clark-Technology Tools for Family Engagement The Role of Diversity
- Digital Lives of African American Tweens, Teens and Parents
- Common Sense Media Mission
- Common Sense Media Research