Presented by Megan Forbes, Experienced Educator, Middle School Teacher, Arcadia Unified School District (CA), and Author; and Susan T. Phillips, Experienced Educator, Principal, Chets Creek Elementary School (FL)
Moderated by Melanie Sutherland, Former Elementary Teacher, Current Customer Consultant, TCI
Presented by Amanda VanDerHeyden, Ph.D., Researcher, Author, and Innovator in Education; and Tim Heckel, Chief Technology Officer, SpringMath Accelerate
Presented by Eisha Buch, Head of Teaching and Learning, Common Sense Media; Dr. Katie DiGregorio, Director of Learning: ENL, Data, and Student Success, West Hempstead Union Free School District (NY); and Dr. Lisa Minicozzi, Principal, Chestnut Street School, West Hempstead Union Free School District (NY)
Moderated by Caroline Hu Flexer, Co-Founder and Vice President, Khan Academy Kids
As debates about screen time ramp up, the technology whiplash in schools continues. Once touting the edtech tools they had adopted, many districts are heeding the increasing calls to limit screen time—sometimes almost removing it entirely. But there’s a vast difference between using an educational tool to create a presentation and endlessly scrolling on a phone.
Presented by Jeff McCoy, Chief Education Officer, ERDI; and Dr. Jennifer Ferrari, Chief Executive Officer, ERDI
The debate over screen time used to be simpler: How many hours of TV should children watch? When should they use the computer lab at school? But now, there are more nuanced conversations to be had in schools about technology that supports teachers and learners versus random scrolling and texting.
Presented by Dr. Doug Brubaker, Superintendent, Texarkana Independent School District (TX); David Law, Superintendent, Minnetonka Public Schools (MN); Dr. Marie Robinson, Superintendent, Bangor School Department (ME); and Cooper Sved, Teacher and CoSN (Consortium for School Networking) 2025 Blaschke Fellow
Moderated by Ann McMullan, Project Director, CoSN/AASA EmpowerED Superintendents Initiative, CoSN (Consortium for School Networking)
Presented by Frank Clegg, Former President, Microsoft Canada, and Current CEO, Canadians for Safe Technology (C4ST); Sharon Goldberg, MD, Integrative Physician; J. Stuart Ablon, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and Founder and Director of Think:Kids, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital; and Mary Anne Tierney, RN, MPH, Executive Director, SafeTech NC, CEO, Blue Ridge EMF Solutions
Presented by Carrie Rogers-Whitehead, Founder, Digital Respons-Ability; and Christopher J. Ferguson, Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist and Professor of Psychology, Stetson University
Moderated by Joyce Whitby, CEO and Co-Founder, Innovations4Education
This webinar will address four hurdles that make appropriate use of technology in the early childhood classroom difficult for many to embrace.