Creative Curiosity, New Media, and Learning
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2010 FRED FORWARD Creative Curiosity, New Media, and Learning MARCH 22-23, 2010 PITTSBURGH AND LATROBE,PENNSYLVANIA First in a series of national conferences of the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media, at Saint Vincent College Welcome Welcome to the 2010 Fred Forward Conference, the first in a biennial series to be held at the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children's Media at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. We at the Center are so very pleased and honored to have such a distinguished group join us for this exciting and critical discussion of the future of technology, new media, and early learning. It was exactly this same great potential for benefitting young children—linking technology and learning—that inspired Fred Rogers almost 50 years ago to develop some of the most powerful and creative programming for educational television. With the extraordinary explosion in communications technology of the past 25 years—a development that has radically changed almost every aspect of modern life—we see opportunities to emulate and extend what Fred accomplished, finding powerful new ways that media and technology can nurture creativity, curiosity, social-emotional development, and learning for children everywhere. Fred Forward is intended to bring together the best minds in the country to explore this potential. The conference series is a signature project of our Center, which was planned under Fred’s leadership in the last few years of his life. It was his hope and intention that the Rogers Center would continue his work as a champion of early childhood development and better screen media for young children. Today, you and many other media creators and educators are as dedicated as Fred to these causes. Fred Forward is to be a forum where the best of these worlds can come together to collaborate and to brainstorm ways in which technology and new media can be commercially successful while always placing the highest value on the development and well-being of young children. Thank you for joining us in this first of what we hope will be many occasions to share our boldest dreams, debate the merits of differing approaches, and move forward together for the benefit of children and families. Maxwell King and Rita Catalano Co-Directors, Fred Rogers Center 2 History The Fred Rogers Center More than 50 years ago, Fred Rogers was the first to recognize the immense potential in the emerging medium of television for nurturing and teaching young children. In the ensuing years, he became the genius behind the most powerful and beneficial program ever created for children. In 2000, Fred Rogers began to plan for a national center where he could continue his advocacy for early childhood education and better media for children beyond Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. His untimely death in February of 2003 did not stop the realization of his dream. In September of that year, the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media was established at Saint Vincent College, in Fred’s real life hometown of Latrobe, Pennsylvania and in the fall of 2008, the LEED Gold-certified Fred M. Rogers Center building was dedicated on the Saint Vincent campus. The mission of the Fred Rogers Center is to advance the fields of early learning and children’s media by acting as a catalyst for communication, collaboration, and creative change. The Center carries forward Fred Rogers’ legacy by focusing on issues and programs that affect young children birth to age 5 as well as their families, caregivers, and teachers. Fred Rogers Archive – The official collection of writings, musical scores, videos, artifacts, and other materials comprising a body of work spanning more than 50 years. These unique resources also include 62 video interviews and print transcripts commissioned by the Rogers Center for the Fred Rogers Oral History Project. Fred Rogers Center Early Learning Network – A web-based platform for engaging underserved teachers, home-based caregivers, and families around the important issues of early literacy and media literacy. Fred Forward Conference Series – A national, biennial event to help understand and influence today’s rapidly changing media environment and its impact on young children. Fred Rogers Fellows – A program to support new work by established experts as well as early career and aspiring professionals in early learning and children’s media. Learning Lives – A multi-year documentary project to explore the many factors that have an impact – positive or negative – on learning for children from birth through their later school years. Online Curriculum Toolkit – A multidisciplinary open courseware project for higher education, drawing from the Fred Rogers Archive as well as the broader base of research and materials on children’s media, early childhood development, and early learning. 3 Monday, 7:30 am: Buses depart hotels for Fred M. Rogers Conference Center March 22 Registration Open Continental Breakfast 8:45 am: Welcome and Introduction Maxwell King and Rita Catalano – Co-Directors, Fred Rogers Center 9:00 am: “More Real than Real” Don Marinelli, Ph.D. – Executive Producer, Entertainment Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University 9:30 am: “Learning Lives” and “Mind in the Making” Ellen Galinsky – President & Co-Founder, Families and Work Institute Hank O’Karma, Partner, New Screen Concepts 10:00 am: New Work Expo Moderator: Illah Nourbakhsh, Ph.D. – Associate Professor of Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University Panelists: Angela Santomero – Founder and Executive Producer, Out of the Blue Enterprises Nancy Steingard – Co-President, 2 Friends Entertainment Jane Werner – Executive Director, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh Exhibitors: Younghyun Chung – My Motion – Assistive Expression Technology Kristen Eno – Making Films with Children Jerry Fails – Mobile Stories Kristen Frame and Sarah White Syms – Won’t You Be Our Neighbor Mary Gillis and Julie Polvinen – Mad Dash! Ian Ingram – Walks in the Parks with Robots Alexis Lauricella – Familiar Characters for Toddlers’ Learning from Video Tracy Pereira – Digital Diaries Project Heather White – Kid Web Blogs Gregory Witt – Color Factory 12:30 pm: Lunch and Keynote Blessing – Rt. Rev. Douglas R. Nowicki, O.S.B., Ph.D., Chancellor of Saint Vincent College Introduction – Gregg Behr – Executive Director, The Grable Foundation Keynote – Milton Chen, Ph.D. – Senior Fellow, The George Lucas Educational Foundation 2:00 pm: “Debate and Create” Ideation Session Moderator: David Kleeman – President, American Center for Children and Media Panelists: Warren Buckleitner, Ph.D. – Founding Editor, Children’s Technology Review J.J. Johnson – Partner, Sinking Ship Productions Donna Mitroff, Ph.D. – President, Mitroff & Associates Linda Simensky – Vice President, Children’s Programming, Public Broadcasting Service 5:30 pm: Reception 6:30 pm: Dinner Presentation of the 2010 Fred Rogers Memorial Scholarship Awards Terri Clark – Executive Director, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Nancy Steingard, Co-President, 2 Friends Entertainment Joanne Rogers Andy Sale – Ernst & Young 8:30 pm: Buses depart for hotels 4 Tuesday, 7:00 am: Buses depart hotels for Fred M. Rogers Conference Center March 23 7:30 am: Continental Breakfast 8:00 am: “New Day in the Neighborhood” Kevin Morrison – Chief Operating Officer, Family Communications, Inc. Cathy Cohen Droz – Director of Special Projects, Family Communications, Inc. Lesli Rotenberg – Senior Vice President, Children’s Media and PBS Brand Management, Public Broadcasting Service 8:45 am: Policy Discussion on Early Learning and Children’s Media Facilitator: William Isler – President, Family Communications, Inc. Panelists: Joan Lombardi, Ph.D. – Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Harriet Dichter, J.D. – Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare 11:00 am: Concurrent Panel Discussions “Creative Play and Children’s Media” Moderator: Ellen Wartella, Ph.D. – Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, and Fred Rogers Center Senior Fellow Panelists: Cheryl Charles, Ph.D. – President and CEO, Children and Nature Network Jim Gray, Ed.D. – Director of Learning, LeapFrog Enterprises Susan Linn, Ed.D. – Instructor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School, and Director, Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood Rosemarie Truglio, Ph.D. – Vice President, Education and Research, Sesame Workshop “Digital Access through Digital Diversity” Moderator: Michael Levine, Ph.D. – Executive Director, The Joan Ganz Cooney Center Panelists: Nancy Kirpatrick – Vice President, National Center for Family and Literacy Kristen Purcell, Ph.D. – Associate Director, Research, Pew Internet and American Life Project Susan Zelman, Ph.D. – Senior Vice President, Corporation for Public Broadcasting 11:45 am: Position Statement on Technology and Media Moderator: Chip Donohue, Ph.D. – Director of Distance Learning, Erikson Institute, and Fred Rogers Center Senior Fellow Panelists: Jerlean Daniel, Ph.D. – Executive Director Designate, National Association for the Education of Young Children Roberta Schomburg, Ph.D. – Associate Dean of Education, Carlow University, and Fred Rogers Center Senior Fellow 12:30 pm: Wrap Up and Closing Maxwell King 12:45 pm: Lunch 2:15 pm: Buses leave for Greater Pittsburgh International Airport 5 Site Map FIRST FLOOR Fred M. Rogers Center BUSINESS CENTER 6 SECOND FLOOR Fred M. Rogers Center 7 Gregg Behr Rita Catalano Milton Chen, Ph.D. Executive Director,