Session Information
2011 NAEYC Annual Conference & Expo
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Media touchpoints: A new framework for the creation, selection, and use of children''s media
Track : Technology & Young Children
Program Code: 210100
Date: Friday, November 4, 2011
Time: 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM  EST
Location: W 202
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Description
This session will introduce and continue the development of a framework and common set of “touchpoints” that media producers, educators, and parents can use to create, select, and effectively use media. These touchpoints will emerge from a roundtable discussion sponsored by the Fred Rogers Center and reflect the input of leaders in media research, media literacy, child development, education, entertainment and educational media, policy, and philanthropy. Building on previous efforts to rate, categorize, award, or define media, the emerging framework will delineate the components of high-quality media to help parents and teachers determine what media content is right for their children. The touchpoints provide specific and important guidance for educators and parents seeking to navigate an increasingly media- and technologically-saturated world in order to better support children’s development in informal and formal learning environments. When completed, the framework will also help media professionals develop high-quality content whose value can be communicated to educators and parents in understandable and usable ways. An easily accessed and understood framework will help educators more effectively select and use appropriate technological tools and media programs with young children growing up in media-saturated homes. These touchpoints will also help educators communicate to parents the value of developmentally and educationally appropriate media for young children in ways that are more actionable than current ratings systems offer. Lastly, media industry professionals will benefit from a set of guidelines that does not restrict creativity or innovation, but does help to convey the values of programs and applications to consumers.


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