TEC Center at Erikson Institute

03/25/2022

Erikson Ph.D. student Missi Jacobson and TEC Director Alexis Lauricella, just published an article on iPad Use in 1st Grade Classrooms. It's open access so check it out here! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666557322000052?via%3Dihub Erikson Institute

Technology use in elementary school classrooms is growing in frequency as school districts adopt higher rates of technology ownership per student. Wit…

03/23/2022

TEC Center Director, Alexis Lauricella, presented about screen time and parenting at the World Early Childhood Development (WED) Movement in Abu Dhabi, UAE last week. Erikson Institute

12/06/2021

Parents of Middle Schoolers- Anyone struggling or concerned about your child's media use?

The TEC Center at Erikson Institute is studying how to best support parent and child conversation about social media, video games, and phone use. We’ve developed ConTEXT-a series of text message challenges to encourage you and your child to talk about technology use and its effects.

We are looking for 100 parents and middle schoolers to try out ConTEXT to help us learn more. As part of the study you and your middle schooler will receive 2 text message challenges each week for free (data rates may apply) and will be asked to complete 3 anonymous surveys at different points to tell us about your experience. You will be compensated for each completed survey up to $50 per person.

If you are interested or would like more information please fill out this short form and we will be in touch!
https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSf.../viewform
Here is our website for more information https://www.erikson.edu/news/sc-tech-and-society-grant/

Funded by the Susan Crown Exchange through their Youth Voice Challenge, Erikson Institute’s Alexis Lauricella, PhD will launch a two-year pilot research and development project that empowers adolescent

11/03/2021

We are now offering a new IMLS-funded professional development program, Media Literacy in Early Childhood for Youth Library Staff!

Recruitment is open for this 4-mo. professional development series, in which participants will spend ~10-12 hours total in entirely online synchronous and asynchronous learning. Cohorts will be made up of 20-25 youth library staff from across the U.S.

Learn more about the program and apply today at erikson.edu/teccenter/librarians

Audience: Public and school library staff who either work directly with young children (ages birth through 8 years old) and families, or supervise library staff who do work directly with young children and families.

Incentive: All participants will receive a certificate and a $400 honorarium for their library once they complete the program to compensate for their time.

Please forward this information to youth library staff across the United States.

05/11/2021

Attention parents of preschool (4's) or Kindergarteners: We're conducting a study to understand how children learn from Zoom.

It's only about 30 minutes, fun, you get a $10 Amazon gift card for participating, and you can do it from home!

Please fill out this form if you are interested in participating or if you want to learn more. https://forms.gle/59G2Tnv9U4HsHVpJ6
Feel free to pass along as well!

We are conducting a research study with preschool and kindergarten children to understand how they learn from Zoom. This is a form to indicate that you are interested in learning more about this study. This study will be conducted on Zoom and your child will participate remotely from home. The study...

02/01/2021

We're hosting a FREE webinar for EC educators, The 3 Rs: Reading, wRiting, & Remote Learning! Feb 18 4-5pm CST. Register to attend https://erikson-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yhpC5bwyQ72Ux2lBb6rGZw

*This webinar was designed for PreK-3rd Grade educators

11/24/2020

Sweet article about children’s television tackling issues like racism and the pandemic. This little Daniel Tiger fan was thrilled! https://news.yahoo.com/2020-rocked-gentle-world-childrens-203403001.html

11/18/2020

Teachers, please take this survey to help us understand the realities of remote teaching this fall! You can win a $25 gift card!

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10/15/2020

Early childhood educators. If you are teaching remotely or in your classroom. Please consider learning more about how to support the media literacy and STEM skills of your young students. Particularly when our teachers are requiring kids to use so much technology it’s absurd that we are not teaching them important media literacy skills!

Don't forget to register for our monthly PD series! This month topics include STEM & Media Literacy with a focus on supporting students remotely. Space is limited so register soon: http://bit.ly/3nrlt53

10/14/2020

Don't forget to register for our monthly PD series! This month topics include STEM & Media Literacy with a focus on supporting students remotely. Space is limited so register soon: http://bit.ly/3nrlt53

10/08/2020

We're excited to announce that we're offering new VIRTUAL professional development opportunities for early childhood teachers. Each workshop is $75 & earns attendees 2 PD credits. Taking place 10/19 & 10/21, participants will explore STEM & Media Literacy.

Register:

Erikson Institute is the premier early childhood development organization committed to ensuring that all children have equitable opportunities to realize their potential.