Monday, May 16, 2011 | Tuesday, May 17, 2011
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Monday, May 16, 2011
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| 2:30 P.M. |
Registration Opens
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| 3:30 P.M. |
Welcoming Remarks |
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Michael Renov, USC School of Cinematic Arts
Gary E. Knell, President and CEO, Sesame Workshop
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| 4:00 P.M. |
Learning in the Digital Age: Three Challenges to Put Kids First |
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Michael Levine, Executive Director, Joan Ganz Cooney Center 
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Hard Fun: Innovations in Literacy |
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Jeevan Kalanithi, CEO, Sifteo
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| 4:15 P.M. |
New Partners in the Next Learning Revolution* |
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Moderator: Geoffrey Cowan, President, Annenberg Foundation Trust |
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Panelists: |
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Karen Cator, Director, Office of Educational Technology, U.S. DOE
Stephen Davis, President, Hasbro Studios
Henry Jenkins, Provost's Professor, USC
Michelle Kydd Lee, Founder and Director, Creative Artists Agency Foundation
Mark Nieker, President, Pearson Foundation
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| 5:30 P.M. |
Performance by The Story Pirates
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| 6:00 P.M. |
Reception and Dinner
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| 7:45 P.M. |
Learning from Hollywood: Storytelling and the Art of Engagement* |
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Opening Remarks: Barbara O'Brien, Former Lt. Governor, Colorado |
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Keynote Panel
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Panelists: |
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Don Hahn, Producer, Stone Circle Films
Doug Wick Producer/Director, Red Wagon Entertainment
Marcy Carsey, Partner and Co-founder, Carsey-Werner Productions |
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Tuesday, May 17
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| 7:30 A.M. |
Breakfast
Registration Opens
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| 8:30 A.M. |
Welcome |
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Ernest Wilson, Dean, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism |
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Overview of the Day |
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Rebecca Herr-Stephenson, Fellow, Joan Ganz Cooney Center
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| 9:00 A.M. |
Framing a New Conversation: Digital Media and Learning |
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Moderator: Virginia Edwards, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher, Education Week |
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Panelists: |
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Linda Burch, Chief Education Officer, Common Sense Media
Frank Gilliam, Dean, School of Public Affairs, UCLA
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| 10:00 A.M |
Case Study: Participant Media - Connecting Communities to Social Action |
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John Schreiber, EVP, Social Action and Advocacy, Participant Media
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| 10:30 A.M. |
Concurrent Panel Sessions: click here |
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Innovation Arcade Opens
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| 12:00 P.M. |
Lunch
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| 1:15 P.M. |
How to Blow Things Up! |
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Introduction: Laird Malamed, SVP, Activision
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Kari Byron, Host, Mythbusters, Discovery Learning
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| 1:45 P.M. |
"Do Something!"* |
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Participants chart strategies to "scale up" expanded learning initiatives and plan next steps in roll-out of national campaigns.
Moderator: Lisa Guernsey, Director, Early Education Initiative, The New America Foundation |
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Panelists: |
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Susan Hildreth, Director, Institute of Museum and Library Sciences
Nichole Pinkard, Director of Innovation, Urban Education Institute
With contributions from Action Team leaders
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| 3:00 P.M. |
Town Hall: Putting Kids First - New Commitments* |
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Moderator: Lisa Guernsey, Director, Early Education Initiative, The New America Foundation
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Provocateurs: |
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Milton Chen, CEO Emeritus, George Lucas Educational Foundation
Erik Huey, Senior Vice President, Entertainment Software Association
Mimi Ito, Professor and Research Director, DML Hub
Linda Roberts, Visiting Scholar, AAAS
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| 4:15 P.M. |
Closing Keynote |
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Telling Purposeful Stories |
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Peter Guber, CEO, Mandalay Bay Entertainment
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| 5:00 P.M. |
Reception
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