Schedule
Thursday, April 21, 2022, 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room (TBA) at Monona Terrace Community and Conference Center
Madison, Wisconsin
Thursday, April 21, 2022, 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room (TBA) at Monona Terrace Community and Conference Center
Madison, Wisconsin
1:00 PM - 1:05 PM (5 min): Opening Remarks and Overview of Agenda
Setup for poster session; Introduce mentor/mentees
1:05 PM - 1:45 PM : [Part 1] Studying Digital Media and Cognitive Development During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Moderator: Dr. Heather Kirkorian)
[1:05 - 1:15 PM] Dr. Rachel Barr, Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University
Using the CAFE Toolkit to characterize household media use during the COVID-19 pandemic
[1:15 - 1:25 PM] Dr. Jonathan Kominsky, Postdoctoral Associate at Harvard Graduate School of Education
Online developmental research methods: Limitations and opportunities
[1:25 - 1:45 PM] General Discussion, Q&A
1:45 PM - 2:30 PM : [Part 2] Screen Media and Cognitive Development (Chair: Dr. Heather Kirkorian)
[1:45 - 1:55 PM] Dr. Alex Bonus, Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at the Ohio State University
Conceptualizing fantasy media as preparation for future learning
[1:55 - 2:05 PM] Dr. Cassie Eng, Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University (Incoming Postdoc at Stanford University)
Leveraging cognitive principles in multimedia learning to optimize e-books for children's attention and comprehension: Evidence from eye tracking
[2:05 - 2:15 PM] Dr. Martina Rau, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Adaptive technology support for learning with interactive visualizations in STEM
[2:15 - 2:30 PM] General Q & A
2:30 PM - 3:10 PM : [Part 3] Coffee Break and Poster Session
3:10 PM - 3:55 PM : [Part 4] Emerging Technologies and Cognitive Development (Chair: Dr. Koeun Choi)
[3:10 - 3:20 PM] Dr. Judith Danovitch, Associate Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of Louisville
What does Google know? Children's thinking about the internet as an information source
[3:20 - 3:30 PM] Dr. Ying Xu, Postdoctoral Scholar of the University of California, Irvine (Incoming Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan)
Socially interactive learning with conversational agents
[3:30 - 3:40 PM] Dr. Koeun Choi, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Science at Virginia Tech
Child-robot musical theater for informal STEAM education
[3:40 - 3:55 PM] General Q & A
03:55 PM - 04:00 PM : Concluding Remark
Summarize key points of the day
Share information about the main conference program relevant to DMCD
04:00 PM - 04:30 PM: Networking/Mentoring (Required for the mentoring program participants; Optional for the other attendees)
Conversations with mentoring partners
Mentors and mentees will be encouraged to sit together
Tables available for self-organized networks