Ypulse Guest Post: A Very Important Play-Date

Published: May 27, 2008, 3:06 pm

Today's Ypulse Guest Post is from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop's Carly Shuler, who is also author of D is For Digital and a couple of forthcoming studies on mobile learning and kids perceptions of "the digital den." Carly offers us a recap of the Center's recent invite-only symposium "Logging into the Playground: How Digital Media Are Shaping Children's Learning." If you have an idea for a Ypulse Guest Post, just email me today! A Very Important Play-Date: Logging into the Playground: How Digital Media Are Shaping Children's Learning On May 9th, a rainy Friday in New York City, about 200 thought-leaders in the field of children's educational media "logged into the playground." Though "logging in" meant convening on the 50th floor of McGraw Hill's New York Headquarters, and "the playground" was actually a day-long symposium, this was one play-date that anyone interested in kids' educational media would not want to miss. The event was the inaugural symposium for

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