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Not sure how best to categorize this site- lots going on, from studies" on parents' and educators' attitudes regarding digital media use in young children" to" ways ""new" literacies can converge with emerging media to produce a powerful new learning equation that can stimulate both our early education system and our children's abilities to innovate and create."

Presented by Susan Gunnewig on supporting early learners with technology through good design, meaningful context, appropriate content, and providing activities and approaches that match children's development and readiness levels.

Recipient of a PBS Innovative Educator Award and PBS Teacher's Choice Award, Brian Puerling helps early childhood educators explore the possibilities with technology by sharing ways to embrace new technology in the classroom, how to integrate and how the use of technology can enhance and augment practices that foster development.

Topic: Understanding why educational technology must be carefully evaluated by programs considering its use, and how they can skillfully do so.

The Curriculum Toolkit is an innovative online resource for higher education faculty in the fields of early childhood education, psychology, and children's media. The Toolkit features content designed to enhance classroom instruction by providing instructors with a wealth of archived video and instructional material from the Fred Rogers Archive. The Toolkit continues to grow as more faculty add their expertise to this growing knowledge base.

Tech on Deck - Volunteers Needed The Technology and Young Children Interest Forum is doing it again and we need your help! We are looking for TYC Interest Forum members to volunteer a little bit of their time during Thursday, November 19 and Friday, November 20 during the NAEYC Annual Conference to make Tech on Deck the most successful technology in early childhood event. About Tech on Deck Tech on Deck is a professional learning experience designed to help early care and education professionals learn about innovative technologies through hands-on experience and demonstrations at the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) Annual Conference. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in conversations on how technology and digital media tools can be integrated into their unique setting. Participants will also have the opportunity to share resources and join the Technology and Young Children Interest Forum (TYCIF).

You can do mobile uploads, file sharing, music, social networking, chat, and safe searching.KID smART's focus is arts integration-linking the arts with the existing academic curriculum. Arts Integration is an inquiry-based approach that lends depth to the learning process by using the arts to create new connections between content and the different ways children learn. The arts help our students to develop self-confidence, responsibility, security, and acceptance, gain respect and compassion for others, develop self-understanding, discipline and emotional control increase use of language and improve communication skills, increase abilities to solve problems creatively and independently foster curiosity, engagement, and enthusiasm for learning. Kidsmart focuses on creativity, innovation, critical thinking, problem solving, effective communication and collaboration.

Providing research, consulting, design, and innovation services to help create groundbreaking play and entertainment products that have a positive impact for kids and families.

Jennie Magiera's keynote session for Advantage 2012 was both inspiring and provocative-exciting! Learn more about the impromptu evening presentation with the Auburn Middle School Student tweeters at the Leveraging Learning iPad Institute in Auburn, ME on her blog, and her ideas and suggestions to move education forward, past integration to redefining the innovative classroom and how she is doing it...