An Invitational Conference

Nationally recognized experts discuss specific strategies parents and educators can use to help boys (and girls) derive the most benefit from their increasing participation in the digital world, including ways to foster empathy, learning, and wise choices.

• Where boys hang out online and what they are doing
• Why many boys struggle academically in school and how we can help them
• Fascinating new research on teen brains and ways to use this knowledge to empower kids to make wise choices
• Creative ways to bridge the new digital divide
• Turning kids’ interest in digital media into vehicles for learning
• Using video games to help boys develop empathy, foster peer collaboration and ameliorate literacy problems
• How the “bystander approach” inspires boys to be heroes and leaders and engages them in preventing bullying and other forms of peer abuse

• Peg Tyre
  Pulitzer-winning journalist and author of the New York Times bestseller “The Trouble with Boys”
• Frances Jensen, M.D.
  Chair, Department of Neurology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
• S. Craig Watkins, Ph.D.
  Professor of Radio-Television-Film and Center for African-American Studies, University of Texas at Austin
• Constance Steinkuehler, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor in Digital Media and Co-Director of the Games+Learning+Society Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison; former senior policy analyst in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
• Jackson Katz, Ph.D.
  Educator, filmmaker, social theorist and founder of Mentors in Violence Prevention, Northeastern University