Overview
Technology is changing the ways that families interact, learn, and manage their lives.
The educational uses of media connect learning across space and time for the entire family.
Global Family Research Project
● Documents how educators, librarians, and other professionals help children and youth become media literate and use the Internet to collaborate, communicate, and gain other 21st-century skills.
● Ensures that family engagement is integrated into digitally based learning initiatives.
● Participates in special-interest forums that deepen the understanding of digital technology in the lives of children and families, and shape the directions for research, policy, and practice.
Featured Resources
Digital Media Schools Family Engagement Policy
Research Shows Home-School Communication is Forever Changed
New data sheds light on lessons learned during the pandemic and how districts are shifting communication practices for the future.
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Family Engagement Digital Media Capacity Building
Responding to COVID-19: Seven Practices to Guide Funding and Programming
STEM Next Opportunity fund reimagines family engagement in the changing environment of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Afterschool Family Engagement Digital Media Schools Capacity Building
Family Engagement Storytelling Project Stands at the 'Intersection of Media and Educational Justice'
Cambridge Agenda for Children’s Stories of Family Partnership offer a new approach to building capacity within the out-of-school-time community.
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Digital Media Family Engagement
Moving from Communication to Engagement: Unlocking the Potential of Underserved, Diverse Families
Learn how TalkingPoints, an educational technology nonprofit, is using AI as a strategic innovation for family engagement
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