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Web Conference: Creating a Conversation About Anywhere, Anytime Learning
Children and youth learn anywhere, anytime, not just in classrooms during school hours. How can families, afterschool programs and community organizations work together to offer children meaningful learning opportunities outside of the school setting? What is the role of families in anywhere, anytime learning? How can we make quality afterschool and summer learning opportunities accessible to all children?
Expert panelists and dynamic web conference participants explored these and related questions in Creating a Conversation About Anywhere, Anytime Learning on Wednesday, October 15, 2014. This was the second web conference of our year-long series in HFRP Interact, in which we build on ideas we have been exploring in our FINE Newsletter related to the expanded definition of family engagement in the context of anywhere, anytime learning.
Panelists Gregg Behr, executive director, Grable Foundation; Terri Ferinde Dunham, partner, Collaborative Communications Group, and lead, National Network of Statewide Afterschool Networks; and Lori Takeuchi, senior director and research scientist, Joan Ganz Cooney Center, joined host, Heather B. Weiss, director of Harvard Family Research Project, and moderator, Christine Patton, senior research analyst at HFRP, to look at these and related questions.
Tips from the web conference include:
- Pay attention to where, when, why, and how kids learn, and create appropriate learning experiences.
- Co-develop with families a learning plan for each child that spans grades, ages, settings, educators, and learning supports.
- Guide children and families to use libraries, museums, and other institutions that offer innovative opportunities for learning through digital media.
- Empower students and parents with data to guide students’ progress along learning pathways.
- Create opportunities for kids to earn badges to help them appreciate and gain added meaning from the skills they’ve learned and to help serve as a gateway to college and work.
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Check these resources that our panelists and participants provided during the web conference. PANELISTS' ORGANIZATIONS
Grable Foundation: www.grable.org
National Network of Statewide Afterschool Networks: www.statewideafterschoolnetworks.net
Collaborative Communications Group: www.collaborativecommunications.com
Joan Ganz Cooney Center: www.joanganzcooneycenter.org
AFTERSCHOOL AND EXPANDED LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
National AfterSchool Association Annual Conference: www.naaweb.org/convention
The Expanded Learning and Afterschool Project: www.expandinglearning.org/expandingminds
National Council of La Raza Expanded Learning Time: www.nclr.org/index.php/issues_and_programs/education/expanded_learning_time
The Statewide Network for New Jersey’s Afterschool Communities: www.njsacc.org
The Wallace Foundation – Knowledge Center on Afterschool: www.wallacefoundation.org/knowledge-center/after-school/Pages/default.aspx
Afterschool Alliance: America After 3: www.afterschoolalliance.org/AA3PM
FAMILY ENGAGEMENT
Parent-Child Home Program: www.parent-child.org
Parents As Teachers: www.parentsasteachers.org
National Center for Families Learning: www.familieslearning.org
Wonderopolis: www.wonderopolis.org
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Span Learning: www.spanlearning.com
Pittsburgh Kids + Creativity Network: www.remakelearning.org
DIGITAL MEDIA
MacArthur Foundation–Digital Badges: www.macfound.org/programs/digital-badges
Power My Learning: www.PowerMyLearning.org
Sandbox Summit: www.sandboxsummit.org/home
Afterschool Alliance–Digital Badges blog post: www.afterschoolalliance.org/afterschoolsnack/ASnack.cfm?idBlog=06A02719-215A-A6B3-02C90C4DA808594D