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A Teacher in the Living Room? Educational Media for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers
Examines the educational claims about commercially available educational media products (videos and DVDs, computer software, and video games) for very young children and what kind of research has been conducted to substantiate the educational claims. More...
Action for Children’s Television
From wikipedia.org: Action for Children’s Television (ACT) was founded by Peggy Charren in Newton, Massachusetts in 1968 as a grassroots organization dedicated to improving the quality of television programming offered to children. More...
Alice Cahn
Alice Cahn, vice president of acquisitions and development for daytime on Cartoon Network/US draws on an extensive career immersed in the world of children’s entertainment as she writes a new chapter at this renowned entertainment center for youth. More...
American Journal of Psychology
From the website: AJP explores the basic science of the mind, publishing reports of original research. More...
Amy B. Jordan, Ph.D.
Amy B. Jordan is a Senior Research Investigator at the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1996, Dr. Jordan has served as the director of research for the Media and the Developing Child sector at the Center. More...
Annual Editions: Early Childhood Education 06/07, 27th Edition
From the website: This Twenty-Seventh Edition of ANNUAL EDITIONS: EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION provides convenient, inexpensive access to current articles selected from the best of the public press. More...
Bill Isler
From the Family Communications, Inc. website: Bill Isler is a longtime professional educator and advocate for children. More...
Brown Johnson
From the website: Brown Johnson is Executive Creative Director of Preschool Television for Nickelodeon. More...
Childhood Education
From the website: It is published by the Association for Childhood Education International. More...
Children’s Digital Media Center
The Children’s Digital Media Center unites a national community of scholars, researchers, educators, policy-makers, and industry professionals in a community whose goal is to improve the media environment in which children live and learn. More...
Coalition for Quality Children’s Media
From the website: The Coalition for Quality Children’s Media is a national, nonprofit organization founded in 1991 whose mission is to teach children critical viewing skills and to increase the visibility and availability of quality children’s media. 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...
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 Education Journal
From the website: Early Childhood Education Journal is a professional publication for early childhood practitioners,... 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...
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...
Faith Rogow, Ph.D.
Dr. Faith Rogow, founding president of the Alliance for a Media Literate America (the nation’s first professional organization for media literacy educators), has been a media educator for more than two decades. 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...
Gary Knell
From the website: Gary Knell is President and Chief Executive Officer of Sesame Workshop. Mr. Knell leads the non-profit educational organization in its mission to create innovative, engaging content that maximizes the educational power of all media to help children reach their highest potential. 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...
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...
Innovations in E-learning: New Promises for Professional Development
This article cites the benefits of technology tools for the field of early childhood professional development and education while also highlighting successful models. 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...
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...
Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media
From the website: The Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media is the scholarly journal published quarterly by the Broadcast Education Association. More...
Journal of Communication
From the website: The Journal of Communication is the flagship journal of the International Communication Association and an essential publication for all communication specialists and policy makers. More...
Journal of Educational Psychology
From the website: The Journal of Educational Psychology is published by the American Psychological Association. More...
Karen Hill Scott, Ed.D.
From the website: Dr. Karen Hill Scott co-founded Crystal Stairs, one of California’s largest non-profit child development agencies; teaches at the UCLA School of Management; and contributes to child development policy through consulting and public service. More...
KCEd: KCET’s Early Childhood Initiative
From the website: KCEd is a multi-platform project [of KCET, the Los Angeles public television station,] designed to enhance the learning experiences of preschool children by increasing the resources of caregivers. More...
KidSmart Early Learning Program
The IBM KidSmart Early Learning Program integrates new interactive teaching and learning activities using the latest technology into the pre-kindergarten curricula. More...
Lesli Rotenberg
Ms. Rotenberg leads PBS KIDS Next Generation Media, a five-year initiative defining the role PBS will play in the changing digital children’s media landscape. More...
Marcia Grimsley
From the Kaiser Family Foundation Website: Ms. Grimsley [was] responsible for the launch of over 40 titles under the Brainy Baby and Small Fry Productions lines. More...
Michael Copps
According to the FCC Website:Michael J. Copps was nominated for a second term as a member of the Federal Communications Commission on November 9, 2005, and sworn in January 3, 2006. His term runs until June 30, 2010. More...
One Mission Many Screens - A PBS/Markle Foundation Study on Distinctive Roles for Children’s Public
“One Mission, Many Screens” outlines six fundamental principles to guide and govern public service media for children. More...
Paula Rosenthal
As Vice President of Playhouse Disney, Paula Rosenthal is responsible for creative development and the day-to-day execution of entertainment and learning-based properties. More...
Peggy Charren
From the Jewish Women’s Archive website (http://www.jwa.org): Peggy Charren formed a non-profit organization called Action for Children’s Television (ACT), which advocated for higher quality, less commercialized children’s television programming and fought censorship. More...
Rosemarie Truglio, Ph.D.
From the website: Rosemarie Truglio is responsible for the development of the interdisciplinary curriculum on which Sesame Street is based, and for the formative research conducted to inform production… More...
Sandy Wax
From the Kidscreen Website (http://www.kidscreensummit.com/2006/speakers.html): Sandy Wax is President and General Manager of PBS KIDS Sprout, the first and only 24-hour on air, on demand, and online service devoted to preschoolers and their parents and caregivers. More...
Suzanne Barchers, Ed.D.
Dr. Barchers has written extensively for the education market, completing two college textbooks, 20 teacher resource books, and 28 books for LeapFrog and LeapFrog SchoolHouse. More...
Technology and Early Childhood Professional Development: A Policy Discussion
This report, including 10 recommendations, resulted from a meeting of policymakers and practitioners regarding technology and early childhood professional development. More...
The Children’s Television Community
From the website: The Children’s Television Community presents a cutting-edge analysis of the children’s television community… and gives an overview of the history, current state, and future of children’s programming. More...
The Education Development Center/Center for Online Professional Education
EDC’s COPE project has a mission “to promote student learning, improve teaching practices, and provide districts with capacity-building solutions through the use of innovative educational practices and technologies”. E-learning for Educators (Ready to Teach) is funded by US Dept of Ed. To establish state wide programs for teachers. More...
The Effects of Electronic Media on Children ages Zero to Six: A History of Research
This issue brief explores the history of research about the effects of electronic media on children zero to six years old (including the funding sources), summarizes the findings of the seminal studies in this area, and notes gaps in the research base. More...
The Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
From the website: The Journal of Experimental Psychology: General publishes articles describing empirical work that bridges the traditional interests of two or more communities of psychology. More...
The Michael Cohen Group, LLC
From the website: The Michael Cohen Group has a powerful specialization in youth research. More...
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