Friday, November 7, 2014 1 - 2:30pm Location: Fairbanks Theater
IFFF offers a Media Panel that showcases a rare and unique glimpse at how Los Angeles youth, their families and educators are embracing digital literacy.
Presented by Ladla ( Los Angeles Digital Literacy Alliance ), a non-profit organization that seeks to develop and advance digital literacy in Los Angeles, this panel presents the exciting and engaging media panel; Digital Literacy in Los Angeles: Imagining the future .
Probing issues… Show more that reach at the heart of what digital literacy means, how youth might be encouraged to make relevant media content, how parents and educators support youth in deconstructing messages and meaning in content, and what the future of digital literacy in Los Angeles and the rest of the country looks like, will be addressed.
A prestigious panel of media experts including Erin Reilly (USC Annenberg Innovation Lab), Raquel Cinat (California Emerging Technology Fund), Tara Tiger Brown (La Makerspace), and Yalda T. Uhls (Common Sense Media) round out the discussion. An open Q&A session with the attending public culminates this exciting panel.
About LADLA
The Los Angeles Digital Literacy Alliance serves as a hub to connect children (ages 5 to 18) and their families with digital media experts, resources and youth-serving organizations to develop and advance digital literacy in Los Angeles.
MODERATOR
HOWARD Blume Education Reporter Los Angeles Times
Howard Blume covers education for the Los Angeles Times. He’s won the top investigative reporting prize from the L.A. Press Club and print Journalist of the Year from the L.A. Society of Professional Journalists chapter. He co-hosts “Deadline L.A.” on KPFK, which the press club named best radio public affairs show in 2010. He teaches tap dancing and has two superior daughters.
SPEAKERS
ERIN REILLY
Creative Director + Research Fellow – USC Annenberg Innovation Lab
Executive Director – Blackstone LaunchPad @USC
Erin Reilly is Creative Director & Research Fellow for Annenberg Innovation Lab at USC's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and Executive Director of Blackstone LaunchPad @usc. In her role, she oversees all aspects of lab programming, product design and mentoring students in developing applications and business ideas using digital media and how it impacts society. Her research focuses on new media literacies, transmedia play and learning, social entrepreneurialism, audience engagement and the future of media and entertainment.
Having received multiple awards, such as Cable in a Classroom’s Leaders in Learning, Erin is a recognized expert in the development of processes and resources for educators and students and conducts field research to collect data and help shape the field of digital media and learning. Erin has successfully designed and implemented the Annenberg Innovation Lab’s Crunch Student Design Challenge. This incubator supports student teams to learn new skills, meet industry leaders, and learn about what it takes to design new products, and in the past four years, two of the winning teams have gone on to accelerators and launch their startups. Erin has also developed the lab’s Think & Do ideation session to engage the wider community in re-envisioning the media and entertainment industry. This ideation process was a finalist in the Mix prize awarded through Harvard Business Review and McKinsey.
Reilly is a graduate of Emerson College and has her Master of Fine Arts degree from Maine Media Workshops + College. She is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the Vice President board member of Namle (National Association for Media Literacy Educators) and serves on advisory boards, such as PBS Emmy-award winning Sci Girls and National Assessment of Educational Progress where she is helping to develop the first technology and engineering literacy assessment. Erin consults with private and public companies in the areas of mobile, creative strategy and transmedia projects.
Contact Erin at:
ereilly@usc.edu
@ebreilly
www.ebreilly.com
RAQUEL Cinat Associate Vice President - California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF)
Raquel Cinat is the Associate Vice President of the California Emerging Technology Fund (Cetf). She is the lead for Southern California grantmaking portfolio management and the Smart Housing initiative. Prior to joining Cetf in 2007, Raquel worked for 10 years at non-profit organizations in Los Angeles, providing direct social services, crisis intervention assistance and case management to low-income families and homeless individuals. She also established strategic partnerships with government, private, and non-profit organizations to design and implement programs that promoted stability and self-sufficiency among residents of publicly-subsidized housing developments. Raquel holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Clinical Psychology and is completing a Master’s Degree in Community and Economic Development.
Raquel Cinat can be contacted by phone at 213.443.9952 ext. 3201 or via email at raquel.cinat@cetfund.org
TARA Tiger Brown Co-Founder La Makerspace
Tara Tiger Brown has served as an entrepreneur, technical director, lead product manager, and opinion writer for numerous institutions and companies including MacArthur Foundation’s Connected Learning Cooperative, Born This Way Foundation, Annenberg Innovation Lab at University of Southern California, Shazam, Topspin Media, and Microsoft Corporation.
Currently she is the Technology Director at the Connected Learning Alliance leading the development of a new youth interest-driven platform – Pursuitery. She is also the Technology Director at the CLA’s sister organization, UC Irvine Digital Media Learning Research Hub, responsible for leveraging new technologies to form robust online communities around the Hub’s research and initiatives.
Her passion for ensuring that kids have the opportunity to gain technology-related skills led her to start the La Makerspace, a family friendly Diy space in Los Angeles.
She is a strong supporter of my community and as an entrepreneur, she felt compelled to showcase the Los Angeles tech startup community and co-created the globally recognized site, Represent.LA.
As a Forbes Woman contributor she highlights the importance of women in technology.
Tara was an Artist-in-Residence at MuseumsQuartier in Vienna, Austria and a Hacker-in-Residence at Sparkfun in Boulder, CO.
Her speaking engagements include La Tech Summit, Diy Days, Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum, Cash Music Summit, Silicon Beach Fest, Imagination Foundation Educator Salon, Rhizome, init(together), General Assembly, SXSW, Oscon, Mozilla Fest, Fun Conf, Farmhouse Conf 2/3/4, Buff Film Festival, Hollywood 3.0 Forum, Transmedia Hollywood 3, BarCampLA, BarCampSeattle.
YALDA T. Uhls Los Angeles Regional Director - Common Sense Media
Yalda T. Uhls has over 15 years of experience in the film business as an entertainment executive and producer. Notable positions include Senior VP at MGM and executive positions at New Line and Sony, as well as consultant to Google, Santa Monica. Yalda also brings a wealth of academic and research experience through her research program with the Children’s Digital Media Center at UCLA. Her research focuses on how older and newer media impacts the social behavior of preadolescents and has been featured in the NY Times, CNN, Time Magazine, KPCC, and many other news outlets. In addition to her peer-reviewed research, Yalda writes for the Huff Post.
Awards include UCLA’s Psychology in Action Award, for excellence in communicating psychological research to audiences beyond academia, as well as honorable mention for the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Student Research Fellowship. Yalda brings a practical knowledge of how kids use media from her role as a mom to two digital native teens. She holds a Ba from UC Berkeley, and an MBA and PhD from UCLA.
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