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Upcoming programs, October 5, October 26 and November 17Youth Safety on a Living InternetTuesday, October 5, 7:00-8:30 PM We, all of us, are experiencing a profound media shift. We’re moving from the professionally-produced, one-to-many, government-regulated mass-media environment that we’ve known for most of our lives to a multidirectional one that is both the product and mirror of people's creativity, learning, and sociality, serving as a platform for it all. This “living Internet” is another “place” where our – and our children's – lives are lived and expressed in real time.
This will NOT be your typical Internet-info program! CPDUs available for education professionals. Sponsored by FAN, in partnership with the PTOs of Wilmette Junior High School and Highcrest Middle School. For more information, visit www.fan-ntts.org or www.wilmette39.org/wjhs. More The Power of the Arts: Habits of Mind and Mood Tuesday, October 26, 7:00-8:30 PM
More information on Ellen Winner and the bonus events Future FAN events in 2010-2011 November 17, 2010 FAN presents in partnership with New Trier High School's Ethical Conduct and Global Citizenship (ECGC) initiative: Barbara Fredrickson, Ph.D. professor at the University of North Carolina and author of Positivity, in Cornog Auditorium on New Trier's Northfield Campus, 7 Happ Rd., Northfield, IL at 7:00 PM. More March 14, 2011 FAN and ECGC present for Madeline
Levine, Ph.D. author of The Price of Privilege, and Denise Pope, Ph.D. lecturer
at Stanford University and co-founder of ChallengeSuccess.org, in Cornog
Auditorium on New Trier's Northfield Campus, 7 Happ Rd., Northfield, IL at 7:00
PM. More
A flyer listing all our speakers for 2010-2011
More about our programs in 2009-2010...John Cacioppo, Widening Our Circle of Compassion:
Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection
danah
boyd, Ph.D., co-author of
Hanging Out, Messing Around,
Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media
Howard
Gardner, Ph.D., author of
Five Minds for the Future Standards of GoodWork: Its Nature, Its Nurture -
A professional forum, with keynote lecture by Howard Gardner, Ph.D.
William
Damon, Cultivating Your Child’s Moral Compass: Empathy, Ethics and the Path to
Purpose
Vivian
Gussin Paley,
Building Community Through Play: How Friendship, Fantasy and Fairness Become
the Building Blocks of a New Society Email updates from FAN FAN has a email list which receives monthly reminders on our schedule and pointers to web resources of interest. Add me to the FAN email list (just accept the default type and style selections). Parent Education Consortium
Of note (see the PEC calendar (on-line) for complete information on these and other events): Volunteers make FAN go! FAN’s Board invites new participation in a variety of roles. If you are an interested parent or professional, who would like to contribute to or learn from a vital organization-- that is committed to educating and connecting parents -- we invite you to please contact Lonnie Stonitsch or Susan Rooney. Planning has already begun and we await your contribution. At every school in New Trier Township we have one or more liaisons - you can help FAN by being a liaison. You can join the FAN board and help in your area of interest and expertise. Want to know more about how you can help and the time required, and the benefits? Write or call Gail Nusekabel. Parent Networks Parents are encouraged to form and join new parent networks. Interested? Drop us a note. A parent network is a small group of parents, of middle school and beyond, who gather for a discussion, facilitated by a local professional, about the joys and challenges of raising children in our communities. Need help now? FAN does not provide emergency services, but recommends these services FAN’s Mission Statement Family Awareness Network of New Trier Township (FAN) makes a positive difference in families' lives by building parents' confidence and helping them connect with other parents, their children, the schools and the community through effective educational programs, active parent networks and other practical parenting resources. |
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Journalist
and youth advocate Anne Collier, MA will talk about this new context
for parenting, teaching, and working with young people, and will give an
overview of what the emerging bodies of youth-online-risk and social-media
research are really revealing, free of hyperbole. Collier is the Founder and
Executive Director of Net Family News, Inc. (since 1999), and editor of
In
a rare Midwest public appearance, Ellen Winner, Ph.D., Chair of the
Psychology Department at Boston College, and Fellow at
