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Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning
From the website: The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning will enhance children’s success in school and life by promoting coordinated, evidence-based social, emotional, and academic learning as an essential part of education from preschool through high school. More...
Computers and the Very Young
Paper cautions against the ““earlier the better”” approach to introducing computers to young children. More...
Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)
The mission of CPB is to facilitate the development of, and ensure universal access to, non-commercial high-quality programming and telecommunications services. More...
CoSN Response to the Alliance for Childhood Study
This report is CoSN’s response to the reports published by Alliance for Childhood in an effort to reveal that technology use can support human connections and engage children in transforming the world. More...
Dafna Lemish, Ph.D.
Professor Dafna Lemish is Editor of the Journal of Children and Media. She has written extensively on children and media. More...
Dale Kunkel, Ph.D.
Dr. Dale Kunkel studies children and media issues from diverse perspectives, including television effects research as well as assessments of media industry content and practices. More...
Daniel R. Anderson, Ph.D.
Daniel R. Anderson has made it his life’s work to answer such questions as they relate to infants, toddlers and pre-schoolers. “My research,” he says, “focuses particularly on the cognitive and educational aspects of children and television.” More...
David Kleeman
From the website: David Kleeman is President of the American Center for Children and Media, an executive roundtable and professional development hub that promotes exchange of ideas, expertise, and information as a means for building quality. More...
David Walsh, Ph.D.
Dr. Walsh is the president and founder of the National Institute on Media and the Family based in Minneapolis, MN. More...
Dimitri A. Christakis, MD MPH
Dimitri Christakis MD MPH, is a pediatrician and epidemiologist at the University of Washington School of Medicine. His current research interest is the effect of media usage on young children’s cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and social development. More...
Division for Early Childhood
The Division for Early Childhood (DEC) is one of seventeen divisions of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC). More...
Division of Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education, National Science Foundation
From the website: The Division of Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education (ESIE) supports the National Science Foundation’s mission of providing leadership and promoting development of the infrastructure and resources needed to strengthen preK-12 SMT education throughout the United States. More...
Dorothy G. Singer, Ed.D.
Dorothy G. Singer is an expert on early childhood development, television effects on youth, and parent training in imaginative play. More...
Early Childhood and Parenting Collaborative
The Early Childhood and Parenting Collaborative at the University of Illinois is home to more than a dozen projects focused on the education, care, and parenting of young children. More...
Early Childhood Education Journal
From the website: Early Childhood Education Journal is a professional publication for early childhood practitioners,... More...
Early Childhood Research and Practice
From the website: ECRP is a bilingual Internet journal on the development, care, and education of young children. More...
Early Childhood Research Quarterly
From the website: Early Childhood Research Quarterly is the scholarly journal of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). More...
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
From the website: ERIC - the Education Resources Information Center - is an online digital library of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. More...
Edward Markey
From the website: Edward J. Markey (D., Massachusetts) was instrumental in the passage of the Children’s Television Act of 1990,... More...
Elizabeth Vandewater, Ph.D.
From the website: Dr. Vandewater is the Director of the Center for Research on Interactive Technology, Television and Children (CRITC) at the University of Texas. Dr. Vandewater is a founding member of the NSF funded Children’s Digital Media Centers (CDMC). More...
Ellen Wartella, Ph.D.
Ellen Wartella is a leading scholar of the role of media in children’s development. More...
Emergent Techno-literacy
Marsh presents the argument that techno-literacy is important to prepare children for the technology driven world. More...
Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media
From the website: The Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media presents state-of-the-art research and ready-to-use facts on the media’s interaction with children and adolescents. More...
Enhancing Teaching with Technology: Are We There Yet?
Paper highlights successful university technology support programs and encourages intentional uses of technology for coursework to enhance pedagogy. More...
FatherLit Database
From the website: The FatherLit Database is a compilation of citations, annotations, and abstracts for over 8,500 basic and policy research publications on fathers, families, and child welfare. More...
Fool’s Gold: A Critical Look at Computers in Childhood
This report is a highly controversial and widely disseminated report, often referred to as the most critical report on children’s use of computers available. More...
Foundation for Child Development
From the website: The Foundation for Child Development (FCD) is a national, private philanthropy dedicated to the principle that all families should have the social and material resources to raise their children to be healthy, educated and productive members of their communities. More...
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute
From the website: The Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG) is a multidisciplinary institute at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. More...
Fred Rogers
From the website: In 1966, he developed Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, a children’s television series for station WQED in Pittsburgh. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood is the longest-running program on public television. More...
George Gerbner, Ph.D.
From wikipedia.org: George Gerbner (August 8, 1919 - December 24, 2005) was a communication theorist, the founder of cultivation theory (mean world theory), and a poet. More...
Georgetown Early Learning Project
From the Website: The Georgetown Early Learning Project seeks to better understand how infants learn and remember information in various social situations. More...
GetNetWise
From the website: GetNetWise is a public service brought to you by internet industry corporations and public interest organizations to help ensure that internet users have safe, constructive, and educational or entertaining online experiences. More...
Gloria Tristani
From the website: Former FCC Commissioner Gloria Tristani oversees the Benton Foundation’s work educating policymakers, academics, and activists about communications policy debates and advocating for tangible public interest benefits from the transition to digital broadcasting. More...
Handbook of Children and the Media
From the website: Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of renowned scholars from around the world, the Handbook of Children and the Media is the first and only all-inclusive, comprehensive analysis of the field for students and scholars. More...
Harvard Family Research Project
For over twenty years, Harvard Family Research Project has helped philanthropies, policymakers, and practitioners develop strategies to promote the educational and social success and well-being of children, families, and their communities. More...
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
From the website: The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the nation. More...
High Touch in a High Tech World: Strategies for Individualizing Online Learning
Paper cautions educators to not overemphasize online aesthetic presentation while forsaking the need to individualize online educational experiences. Also encourages educators to build relationships between student and instructor. More...
Hillary Rodham Clinton
As First Lady, Senator of New York, and Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton has served the public on behalf of children and families. More...
Hypothesis Group
From the website: Hypothesis is a growing team of diverse, highly talented senior-level professionals who bring creativity, attention to detail, an extensive knowledge base, and a never ending quest for the best questions and the richest answers for every client and project. More...
Insight Research Group
From the website: We help clients create curricula, TV, film, websites, advertising and products that inspire imagination, creativity, and growth. More...
International Society for Technology in Education
From the website: The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) provides leadership and service to improve teaching and learning by advancing the effective use of technology in education. More...
It’s Child’s Play: Advergaming and the Online Marketing of Food to Children
Webcast of Roundtable discussion accompanying release of report. July 19, 2006. The Kaiser Family Foundation released the first comprehensive analysis of the nature and scope of online food advertising to children… More...
James P. Steyer
From the website: As CEO, he is responsible for the overall leadership of Common Sense Media, the nation’s leading non-partisan organization dedicated to improving the media lives of kids and families More...
Jane Healy, Ph.D.
Dr. Jane Healy is a child development expert, a well-known author of Your Child’s Growing Mind and two-time U.S. Educator of the Year who currently serves as an internationally recognized lecturer and consultant. More...
Jayne James
Jayne W. James, Ed.D. joined the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) as the Executive Director of “Ready To Learn,” a collaborative initiative between CPB and PBS. More...
Jeff McIntyre
From the website: Mr. McIntyre has years of policy experience related to children and the media… More...
Jerome L. Singer, Ph.D.
Jerome L. Singer is a specialist in research on the psychology of imagination and daydreaming. More...
Jim Henson
From the website: Joan Ganz Cooney…asked [Jim Henson] to create a family of characters to populate Sesame Street. More...
Joan Ganz Cooney
Joan Ganz Cooney, co-founder in 1968 of Children’s Television Workshop (renamed, Sesame Workshop June 2000) and originator of the preschool educational series, Sesame Street, served as President and Chief Executive Officer until 1990. She is currently Chairman of the Executive Committee of Sesame Workshop’s Board. More...
Joanne Cantor, Ph.D.
Joanne Cantor, Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is an internationally recognized expert on children and the mass media. Her area of expertise is mass media effects, about which she has published more than 90 scholarly articles and chapters. More...
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