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Tap, Click, Read – And Connect: Early Literacy in the Digital Age

December 9, 2015 @ 6:00 pm

 

The Joyce Foundation will be holding a cocktail reception to celebrate the book, “Tap, Click, Read: Growing Readers in a World of Screens,” and a new project that maps the most innovative digital tools used for childhood development. During the event, co-hosted by LEAP Innovations, authors Michael H. Levine, the Founding Director of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center and Lisa Guernsey, Director, Learning Technologies Project at New America, will discuss the project and sign copies of the new book.

 

Event Schedule:

6:00 pm –  Cocktail reception

6:30 pm –  Program

Welcome – Phyllis Lockett, CEO, LEAP Innovations

Introduction – Jeff Schoenbergadvisor to The J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation, which funded the book.

Panel discussion and Q & A with Michael Levine and Lisa Guernsey, led by Stephanie Banchero, Joyce Foundation Education Senior Program Officer

 

 

Details

Date:
December 9, 2015
Time:
6:00 pm
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Organizer

Joyce Foundation

Venue

LEAP Innovations at 1871
222 W. Merchandise Mart Plaza, Suite 1212
Chicago, IL 60654 United States
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