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A Teacher in the Living Room? Educational Media for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers

Webcast of the Panel Discussion accompanying the release of the report. ... examines the educational claims about commercially available educational media products… More...

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...

American Psychological Association

The APA publishes research journals and books dealing with issues related to all aspects of media impact on children, and the website provides links to articles for parents. More...

An Environmental Scan of Children’s Interactive Media from 2000-2002

From the website: This report represents an in-depth scan of the children’s interactive media environment. 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...

Barbara O’Keefe, Ph.D.

From the website: Barbara J. O’Keefe (Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) is Dean of the School of Communication and Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. More...

California Childcare Health Program

From the website: Established in 1987, the California Childcare Health Program is a community-based program of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Nursing, Department of Family Health Care Nursing. More...

Center for Media Education

When Action for Children Television closed its doors in 1992, the Center for Media Education assumed the role of carrying on ACT’s work. More...

Center for Research on Interactive Technology, Television and Children

From the website: CRITC is dedicated to furthering research and knowledge on the effects of electronic media on children’s social development and academic achievement. More...

Center on Media and Child Health

From the website: The Center on Media and Child Health is dedicated to understanding and responding to the effects of media on the physical, mental, and social health of children through research, production, and education. More...

Children and Interactive Media - A Compendium of Current Research and Directions for the Future

Arguing that very little is currently known about the role of interactive media in children’s lives, this report aims to gather and review existing research in an effort to further such knowledge. More...

Children and Interactive Media - Research Compendium Update

From the website: This report is an update of the Children and Interactive Media: A Compendium of Current Research and Directions for the Future report to the Markle Foundation from October 2000. 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 Children and Media

From the website: Journal of Children and Media is an interdisciplinary and multi-method peer-reviewed publication… 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...

Journal of Media Psychology

From the website: The Journal of Media Psychology, is a non-profit, non-partisan, educational forum for research, theory, comment, criticism, review, reportage, and scholarship on the psychological impact of the media on individuals and cultures. 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...

Markle Foundation

The Interactive Media For Children Program has aimed principally to gain in-depth knowledge about the impact of interactive media on children’s learning and development, and has worked to promote the use of that knowledge… More...

National Institute on Media and the Family

From the website: The National Institute on Media and the Family is an independent, nonpartisan, nonsectarian, and nonprofit organization that is based on research, education, and advocacy. More...

National Parent-Teacher Association

Working in cooperation with many national education, health, safety, and child advocacy groups and federal agencies, National PTA collaborates on projects that benefit children and that bring valuable resources to its members. 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...

PEDIATRICS

From the website: PEDIATRICS is an official peer-reviewed journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. More...

Sandra Calvert, Ph.D.

Sandra L. Calvert, is Chair and Professor of the Department of Psychology at Georgetown University and the Director of the Children’s Digital Media Center, a multi-site interdisciplinary research Center funded by the National Science Foundation. 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...

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