Aprendiendo Juntos Council
2013
The National Center for Family Literacy convened the Hispanic-Latino Families and Digital Technologies Forum in partnership with the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop and the National Council of La Raza. The Forum, held on June 8, 2012, in Washington, DC, assembled many of the nation’s leading scholars on digital media, learning, and family life, as well as practitioners, policymakers, and philanthropic leaders who are committed to developing national initiatives to document and accelerate the growing use of modern technologies among Hispanic-Latino families with young children. The ultimate goal of the Forum is to identify practices and initiatives that employ technology and digital media that should be further studied or brought to scale to meet the critical and unique educational needs of our nation’s fastest growing population. The forum is spurring ongoing discussion, action items and aggressive pursuit of this goal.
We are proud to have this critical discussion move forward as a working group named the Aprendiendo Juntos Council. In English this means Learning Together. We think that description is an apt signal of our commitment to jump start essential work. By bringing passionate and leading minds to the table, we can indeed help all of our families learn together.
Info and Videos
- Click here to view forum presenters, panelists and key topics
- Review insightful forum background and vision papers written by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center and forum panelists
Watch these videos to view full-length forum presentations, sessions and discussions:
- Welcome from Sharon Darling of NCFL and Monica Lozano of impreMedia on Transforming Latino communities through digital literacy
- Presentation Reaction Panel
- Diane August, American Institutes for Research
- Karen Cator, U.S. Department of Education
- Brenda Dann-Messier, U.S. Department of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education
- Emily Kirkpatrick, National Center for Family Literacy
- Jeanette Betancourt, Sesame Workshop
- Panel 1: Socio-cultural context: Hispanic-Latino families and the challenges they face
- Robert Torres, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Moderator)
- Patti Constantakis, Great Schools
- Michael Lopez, National Center for Latino Child & Family Research
- Guadalupe Valdés, Stanford University
- Panel 2: Promising practices - Issues involving Hispanic-Latino families, technology, and education
- Thomas Schultz, Council of Chief State School Officers (Moderator)
- Charlene Lui, Granite School District, Salt Lake City, UT
- Haley Robertson, Education Strengthens Families, Washington DC
- Debra Sanchez, Corporation for Public Broadcasting
- Matthew Tessier, Chula Vista Elementary School District, Chula Vista, CA
- Carrie Ann Zayas, PNC Grow Up Great
- Panel 3: Emerging research on Hispanic-Latino families and digital media
- Ellen Wartella, Northwestern University (Moderator)
- Vikki Katz, Rutgers University
- Michael Robb, Fred Rogers Center, Saint Vincent College
- Lisa Tripp, Florida State University
- S. Craig Watkins, University of Texas at Austin
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