
Day 4 - Friday, May 20, 2022

What are the key policy needs and considerations
for education technology and virtual learning moving forward?
Highlights Video
Welcome and Overview
1:00 pm

Kris Perry, MSW
Executive Director, Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development

Colleen Kraft, MD, MBA, FAAP
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles,
Professor of Pediatrics,
Keck School of Medicine,
The University of Southern California
What are the key policy needs and considerations for both education technology and virtual learning?
1:05 pm
Presentations (Prerecorded)

Speaker / Discussant
Velislava Hillman, PhD
Visiting Fellow,
London School of Economics and Political Science
What is driving the edtech growth in education (whom do they benefit and how?): A review of policies and stakeholder views in the UK, EU, and USA | Watch Here

Beth Holland, EdD
Research and Measurement Partner,
The Learning Accelerator
Bridging the Digital Divide: Five Critical Considerations to Tackle Digital Equity | Watch Here

Amelia Vance, JD
Founder and President,
Public Interest Privacy Consulting
Student Data and Privacy | Watch Here

Faith Boninger, PhD
Research Professor,
Co-Director of the Commercialism in Education Research Unit,
National Education Policy Center,
University of Colorado, Boulder
Commercialism in Schools | Watch Here
Discussants

Discussant
Carolyn Heinrich, PhD
Chair,
Leadership, Policy and Organizations Department,
Professor of Public Policy and Education,
Peabody College of Education and Human Development,
Vanderbilt University
Breakout Groups
Experiences with education technology in the classroom (sessions divided by grade levels)
10:20 am

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Breakout Groups
Key policy and regulation questions, and agenda setting
(sessions divided by grade levels)
1:25 pm
Breakout Group Leaders

Primary School Breakout Group Leader
Kris Perry, MSW
Executive Director,
Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development

Middle/ High School Breakout Group Leader
Jennifer Darling-Aduana, PhD
Assistant Professor of Learning Technologies,
Georgia State University
Break
2:25 pm
Breakout Groups
Key policy and regulation questions, and agenda setting
(sessions divided by topic)
There will be no live Q&A for this session. Instead, participants will go straight into breakout groups.
2:40 pm
Breakout Group Leaders
There will be no live Q&A for this session. Instead, participants will go straight into breakout groups.

Digital Divide and Equitable Access Group Leader
Amina Fazlullah, JD
Senior Director,
Equity Policy,
Common Sense Media

Commercialization Group Leader
Carolyn Heinrich, PhD
Chair,
Leadership, Policy and Organizations Department,
Professor of Public Policy and Education,
Peabody College of Education and Human Development,
Vanderbilt University

Student Data and Privacy Breakout Group Leader
Cody Venzke, JD
Senior Counsel,
Center for Democracy & Technology
Breakout Groups
Experiences with education technology in the classroom (sessions divided by grade levels)
10:20 am

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Experiences with virtual learning (sessions divided by grade levels)
11:45 am

Speaker / Discussant
Justin Reich, PhD
Associate Professor,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Speaker / Discussant
Kristen Turner, PhD
Professor and Director of Teacher Education,
Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, Drew University

Discussant
Joe Clement
Associate Professor,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Prerecorded Presentations
Justin Reich, PhD
Change and Continuity: Paradoxes of Pandemic Teaching with Technology | Watch Here
Matt Miles, MEd
Falling Short: A Review of Educational Technology’s Effectiveness during the Pandemic | Watch Here
Kristen Turner, PhD
Pandemic Lessons? It’s About the Art of Great Teaching | Watch Here
Report Out
3:45 pm
Breakout Group Leaders
Closing remarks by: Kris Perry, MSW, Executive Director, Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development