Back to School in a Digital World

Federal Communications Commission
Thursday, September 8
10 am -- 11:15 am
http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db0902/DOC-...

A forum bringing together parents, educators and experts to discuss the opportunities and challenges around technology use by adolescents.

The event will highlight questions from parents, educators and others from across the country. The FCC has set up a crowdsourcing site to help collect some of the most common questions from parents on this important topic: http://fcc.us/digitalparent. Anyone can participate by submitting a question or voting for questions. In addition, the event will feature multimedia video presentations and interactive segments with the live school audience. The forum will be webcast live on www.fcc.gov/live. Parents will also be able to send in questions during the forum at livequestions@fcc.gov or tweet their questions to #fcclive.

PANELISTS:

  • Julius Genachowski, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission
  • Jason Rzepka, Vice President of Public Policy, MTV
  • Alan Simpson, Vice President of Policy, Common Sense Media
  • Nicole Turner-Lee, VP & Director, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
  • Stephen Balkam, President, Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI)
  • René Cadogan, Bilingual Counselor, Columbia Heights Educational Campus