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Children sometimes need psychological help, just like adults do. Treatment typically begins when parents, teachers or school counselors notice that children aren't functioning as well as they could. Psychologists can help children cope with such problems as anxiety and depression, hyperactivity, conflicts with parents and stressful events like divorce or a parent's death.

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The 2017 Interaction Design and Children (IDC) conference took place at Stanford University in California this past June. The conference brought together an amazing community of researchers, designers, educators, and industry specialists who are interested in designing (primarily technology and new media experiences) for and with children. Before the conference began, various groups of people put on one-day IDC workshops focusing on topics spanning from joint media engagement to making to co-design.

My co-organizers Dr. Julie A. Kientz (University of Washington), Dr. Carmen Gonzalez (University of Washington), Dr. Tamara L. Clegg (University of Maryland), and former JGCC fellow Dr. Jason C. Yip (University of Washington) and I decided to host a pre-conference workshop called Equity & Inclusivity at IDC. Due to our aligning interests, we joined forces with the Interaction Design & Autistic Children workshop, organized by Dr. Chris Frauenberger along with Katharina Spiel and Julia Makhaeva.

Our goal for the workshop was to bring together a community of researchers and designers who could share how they already make or plan to make equity-promoting fairness by allocating more resources and opportunities to those who need it- and inclusivity- the inclusion and meaningful participation of people who might otherwise be excluded or marginalized- foundational to their work with children and families. These issues- equity and inclusivity-complement each other as we can use equitable practices and approaches to promote inclusion in our designs and methods.

We succeeded in this right; our 19 workshop participants had extremely important, diverse, intersectional interests concerning equity and inclusivity. As passionate undergraduate and doctoral students, research scientists, lecturers, and professors, their work concentrated on, for example, co-designing with children of color, children with disabilities, and children from underserved communities; understanding and designing interactive and immersive technologies for children with disabilities and illnesses; helping children's media creators develop representative content (e.g., around race and disability); and creating and promoting STEM and making opportunities for girls, young women of color, and children with disabilities.

Throughout the day, we reflected on how our approaches, designs, and methods may either be restricting or facilitating equitable access and participation of diverse children and their families. As our participants' work was diverse in focus, we also collectively reflected on how children's and families' intersecting identities (i.e., gender, race, class, ability, etc.), structural inequality, and power dynamics can make our work more challenging.

In the morning, workshop participants got to know each other in small groups and discussed what they have already done in regard to equity and inclusivity in their work, including what has been successful and what has been challenging. After this discussion, based on the challenges we collectively identified, we all established particular areas that we as individuals and a research community still need to address; for example, adapting methods to our participants' diverse needs and abilities, recruiting marginalized children and families, and infrastructural issues, like scalability or our ability to influence policy. The afternoon consisted of more small and large group discussions on how we might get closer to addressing these challenges.
Outcomes
Ultimately, we (1) opened up an underdeveloped dialogue about the complexity of confronting and attending to issues of equity and inclusivity in research and design and (2) began to articulate where and how we as a community could go further in confronting these challenges. We took steps toward being more equitable and inclusive in our research by being both reflective and reflexive about our positionality as people who work and design with marginalized children and families.

So while we tackled many issues related to methods (e.g., recruitment), designs (e.g., representation, accessibility), and theoretical approaches (e.g., using a feminist or intersectional lens), what was most exciting to me was how we in the workshop turned the mirror onto ourselves. While we may be committed to equity and inclusivity in our work, our research community itself also needs to be equitable and inclusive. We need to create more spaces for people to critically explore these types of complex questions. But more importantly, we need more opportunities to share with each other and provide valuable guidance and support.

One main takeaway from our group discussions was that our conferences and meetings need to be more diverse. Beyond participation, we also discussed ways in which we could hold ourselves accountable to each other and the families that we aim to serve. We must realize our own responsibility and privilege as researchers and designers. We need to make external commitments to our participants and give back to the community in ways that might not always benefit the research directly. We must advocate for and amplify each other's voices. We need to be more critical of our ethical commitments, realizing that those of us with privilege must also be activists if we want to affect equity and inclusivity in our own community.

This workshop was just the first step in making even stronger commitments to equity and inclusivity in our work with marginalized children and families. Our next steps include generating a list of more concrete to-do's for our research and design community, finding both communication and publishing channels to promote equitable, inclusive design work for children and families, and developing a FAQ for people who want to do better at being more equitable and inclusive in their work. Now we're excited for what these next steps will bring!

For more information, check out our website and zine, which documents the workshop, including our notes throughout the day!
Kiley Sobel is a doctoral candidate and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington. She is interested in inclusive design, child-computer interaction, and assistive technology. She has worked as a teacher's assistant in various early childhood education classrooms and as a behavioral therapist for children with autism. Her primary research is in understanding how interactive technology might help increase opportunities for children with diverse abilities and needs to equally, actively, and meaningfully participate in the same setting. She is currently working on her dissertation to investigate the role of interactive technology during inclusive play, or play between children with and without disabilities.

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"Representation" is a loaded word in the entertainment world, especially in the past few years. Campaigns like #OscarsSoWhite have created a dialogue around the lack of diversity in Hollywood. But what if you grew up seeing only one character who looked like you on television? And what if he was a cartoon character who displayed every negative stereotype you and your family have heard for as long as you can remember?

Hari Kondabolu has faced this problem ever since the first time someone on the schoolyard called him "Apu." Yes, we're talking about Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, the big-bellied, high-pantsed owner of the Kwik-E-Mart on FOX's eons-running The Simpsons. If you're not familiar, Apu lives to charge people insane prices for salty snacks or sugary Squishees, is unfailingly polite to even his worst customers (especially Homer), and closes even the most contentious conversations by saying "Thank you, come again!"

Kondabolu's new documentary, The Problem with Apu, debuts on truTV on November 19. In it, the comedian examines how the character of Apu was created and how it managed to endure over the past 30 years despite being a terrible stereotype of South Asian people.

"The early [years of the] show were mainly Bart episodes. So the Apu stuff, it was just like, 'Whoa, there's a brown character. This is amazing, and we exist.' We went from not existing to this cartoon, which was more than nothing," he told me. "And then I went to junior high school or maybe high school-I don't remember the exact point-but at a certain point, I realized that, 'Whoa they're mentioning Apu to me.' The kids are using that as a weapon."

It's a topic that Kondabolu has been interested in, at least publicly, since his days writing for W. Kamau Bell's first talk show, Totally Biased. The movie dives even deeper. Kondabolu speaks to a number of South Asian American actors and comedians, including Aziz Ansari, Kal Penn, Aasif Mandvi, Aparna Nancherla, Russell Peters, and Utkarsh Ambudkar. He not so jokingly claims in the movie that now there are 14 famous South Asians, and he knows all of them-and all of them agreed that Apu haunted their childhoods. Penn was so viscerally angry at the characterization that he tells Kondabolu that it ruined the entire 28 years of The Simpsons for him.

"Everybody has their line, and also he's a little older than me," he says about Penn's enmity. It doesn't help Penn's viewpoint that his first movie role was as a heavily accented student named "Taj Mahal Badalandabad" in the 2002 mediocrity Van Wilder.

As Kondabolu dug into the origins of the character, he started to become curious about its genesis. Did co-creators Matt Groening and James L. Brooks sign off on such a ridiculous character back when the show was created in 1989, despite their reservations? Or did Hank Azaria, the man who created Apu's voice, make it on his own, and the writers just ran with it? The fact that Azaria, whose family is Greek and Jewish, is even doing the voice instead of an Indian or other South Asian actor seems to add insult to injury, according to Kondabolu.

"When you actually see [the person behind the voice], you realize the jokes are directed at you," he said. "They're not inclusive jokes. They're really from the lines of a white person looking at another culture, plus the voice is a white dude. Like the whole thing all of a sudden feels a little less... It doesn't feel like it's in good faith at all."

Azaria, of course, was someone that Kondabolu badly wanted to talk to on camera. He thought that, because the actor had expressed regret over the character in a Huffington Post interview, landing Azaria would be relatively easy. But as the pursuit of Azaria became more frustrating, it became the through-line the movie needed to propel it along.

"This isn't supposed to be an attack on Hank Azaria," said Kondabolu. "The Hank plot is a through line. It's a device. If he ended up speaking and we had an open conversation, that's great. To me, that's more interesting." Off-camera, Azaria talked to Kondabolu on the phone about discussing the issue on a podcast where he wasn't subject to Kondabolu's edit, but he ultimately said no to that, too. "Part of me wonders if he really wanted it."

In fact, the only person associated with The Simpsons, past or present, who agreed to speak on camera was Dana Gould, who wrote for the show from 2001 to 2008. Gould was pretty blunt in his assessment about Apu: stereotypical voices are funny, and that's what they wrote toward. For his part, Kondabolu appreciated Gould's candor. "That's not negative. That's blunt, and that's honest. What? Was he supposed to bullshit? He said like, 'This accent is seen as funny by most white Americans.' I was like, 'Yeah, that's true.'"

If he seems conflicted about tearing into a show he's a big fan of, well, he is. But he is not a subscriber to what other comedians label "politically correct" speech. When asked about how legends like Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock have discussed how PC speech has been anathema to comedy, Kondabolu doesn't mince words.

"With all due respect, I will say what's the difference between saying that and [saying] 'the kids these days'? I'm only 35, and I don't always get it. But I do know that's the direction of people's thinking and the country whether I like it or not. So I either catch up or I don't. And so to me, political correctness doesn't mean anything. Maybe you're talking about ideas being spread faster and maybe faster than people are prepared to resolve them." When Babu Bhatt, a Pakistani character from Seinfeld's early seasons is mentioned, Kondabolu doesn't mince words, either, calling it a "one-dimensional shit character."

As far as he's concerned, comedy can be good without the use of stereotypes. And while Apu will never leave The Simpsons, he hopes there will be other South Asian characters who show more positive images. "Regardless of whether it's funny, regardless of whether it's entertaining, how does it shape the culture around you? I don't think this particular character shaped it positively."
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The Choiceworks app is an essential learning tool that helps children complete daily routines (morning, day, & night), understand & manage feelings and improve waiting skills (taking turns and not interrupting). Choiceworks is designed for caregivers to provide clear and consistent support to foster a child's independence, positive behavior, and emotional regulation at home and in the community. It can also be customized for teachers in a school setting.

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My son has moderate autism. I homeschool him because I don't feel he would thrive in a classroom. We do a lot of life lessons. I have his school day broken into lessons. Each lesson has a few activities, most have photographs I have taken of the actual materials we use and I record my voice to tell him what we are doing. You could even add videos if you use it for things like brushing teeth. He gets a verbal "All Done" and a check mark when he completes each task. It is so easy to customize if we change the tasks from day to day. It is engaging and I don't have to write out a schedule anymore! I love this app!!!

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With its friendly approach and awesome updates, Duolingo's long been one of our favorite apps for learning another language. Its secret: making the process genuinely fun. Engaging mini-games test your reading, writing, and speaking skills, and joining a club (where you can encourage and compete with others) adds a great social element. Bonus: all those languages and games are available for free!

Duolingo is incredible

I never thought I could learn more than three languages sense prior to downloading Duolingo I specked 2 languages fluent. ever since I made my first account on Duolingo I've learned German Spanish and on my second account I'm learning Japanese. currently I speak four languages fluently and I am learning Japanese as my fifth. I really appreciate that on the free account even when you lose all your hearts you can still get them back by doing exercises on that certain language. Matter fact if super Duolingo only gave you infinite hearts I personally wouldn't have tried it out because when you lose the hearts you need to work to get them back which just helped me learn languages way faster. but super Duolingo not only offers you infinite hearts but also AI lessons based on your mistakes and a new feature where you listen to stuff I haven't tried it out yet so I can't say much about it but what I can say is I'm looking forward to trying out. if you're like me and you just need something to keep you busy and and exercise your brain or Learning it for jobs or just for fun I truly believe that Duolingo is the best option out there specially for beginners that are not sure if they want to pay for an app to learn a language. so the free account on Duolingo is amazing and I highly recommend it for beginners. thank you folks at Duolingo for making such a incredible app and making a widely available for anyone to try it out. good luck letting your next language 🍀🙏

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I love Duolingo, but I can't stand the child's voice and one particular man's voice. The child's voice is often unintelligible while accompanied by poor audio. The man's voice I mentioned is ridiculously fast for students who are trying to learn proper pronunciation of a new language. I often have to intentionally fail the lessons to find out what these two are saying. There is a woman's voice used for the majority of the examples in the comment section that is clear and articulate. I always listen to her example to practice my pronunciations. The comment section is closed. It is helpful to read the comments, but it is impossible to ask questions or leave new comments. I highly recommend Duolingo as a beginner language course.

Update, Duolingo starts out promising, but once you get past the basics you'll soon find yourself translating random sentences that lack any sort of conversational context. Duolingo is a game designed to keep you engaged. There are much better apps for learning languages that will teach you to speak conversationally. Duolingo is not one of them. That being said, I still participate in Duolingo daily, but I've made astounding progress using another app after over 225 days of Duolingo that taught me nothing about having basic everyday conversations. It's like doing a crossword puzzle. You learn a lot of words without engaging in any sort of conversation. Isn't having conversations what language is all about?

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Learn more about Amanda's blog site on tech, media, culture, and early childhood

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Uncomfortable Conversations for Educators & Parents

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Welcome to Uncomfortable Conversations. An online, safe space for professionals and families to discuss issues surrounding early childhood, culture, technology, and media.

Whether you are a parent, educator, or caregiver, you are an educator of young children. My blog site is intended to be a platform where early childhood educators, parents, caregivers, and other caring adults can have honest and uncomfortable conversations about early childhood, culture, media, and technology. It is my hope that we discuss the issues about children's culture and early experiences in relation to technology and media, cultural competency and relevancy in education, and media and technology's influence on our experiences.

While it's important to talk about these concerns, I also want us to discuss the ways we are addressing these issues and presenting possible solutions that we can implement in our daily lives. I encourage all of us to ask meaningful questions and share our stories with each other to help one another because we are all learners. By presenting our issues and solutions, it is my hope that we discover approaches that will support all children in being themselves and enhance our professional growth.

Amanda

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Uncomfortable Conversations for Educators by Amanda Armstrong is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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Welcome to Uncomfortable Conversations. An online, safe space for professionals and families to discuss issues surrounding early childhood, culture, technology, and media. Whether you are a parent, educator, or caregiver, you are an educator of young children. My blog site is intended to be a platform where early childhood educators, parents, caregivers, and other caring adults can...

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by Amber Levinson, Sinem Siyahhan, Briana Pressey, and Katie Headrick Taylor
October 29, 2015

For the past two years, Families and Media project researchers have been studying low-income and language-minority communities in California, New York, Arizona, Colorado, and Illinois. This research-based guide is created for educators and media designers who create programs for children and families. Diverse Families and Media offers stories of family media use that were documented in our studies, and raise design-relevant questions as well as suggest design principles that can be applied more broadly. The goal of the guide is to help producers and designers gain insight from our research with families, particularly those from underserved groups, and help refine existing programs or give rise to new concepts.

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Diverse Families and Media: Using Research to Inspire Design

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For the past two years, Families and Media project researchers have been studying low-income and language-minority communities in California, New York, Arizona, Colorado, and Illinois. This research-based guide is created for educators and media designers who create programs for children and families. Diverse Families and Media offers stories of family...

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Orange County Convention Center, Room W304E/F

Friday, 2:30 - 4:00pm EST

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Tech on Deck, an NAEYC Technology and Young Children Interest Forum event,is a two-day professional learning experience designed to help early care and education professionals learn about traditional and emerging technologies through hands-on experience and demonstrations. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in conversations on how technology and digital media tools can be integrated into their unique setting.

Highlighted Technology Sessions bring together some of the most influential, leading international experts in technology and early childhood. These sessions will provide Tech on Deck participants with hands-on experiences, demonstrations, and engaging conversations regarding practical uses of technology in the early care and education setting.

Speed Tech Sessions are 30-minute sessions that will allow participants to learn evidence-based practices in technology integration from early childhood practitioners. Practitioners will share with participants how they are using technology to enhance children's learn
ing environments and the process that led them to use it.

Roundtable Chats, hosted by national experts in the field of technology and early childhood, provide participants with an excellent venue to engage in in-depth discussions, hands-on experiences and network with like-minded professionals.

Tech on Deck also offers " free play," an open space where participants will encounter a variety of traditional and emerging technology tools, such as overhead projectors, blocks, robots, iPads, tablets, STEM resources, and much more. Technology tools will be accompanied by a one-pager explaining the tool and some examples of how each tool is used in the classroom.

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NAEYC Technology and Young Children Interest Forum, TechonDeck | Technology and Young Children Interest Forum

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Tech on Deck, an NAEYC Technology and Young Children Interest Forum event,is a two-day professional learning experience designed to help early care and education professionals learn about traditional and emerging technologies through hands-on experience and demonstrations. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in conversations on how technology and digital media tools can be integrated into their unique setting.

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Kevin Clark, "Diversity in Children's Digital Media"

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Kevin Clark, "Diversity in Children's Digital Media"

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2012 Fred Forward presentation

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How Media & Technology Affects Children | Child Development

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Diversity in Children's Digital Media - Content, Access, Use, and Creators. Featuring Kevin Clark, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Instructional Design and Development; Director, Center for Digital Media Innovation and Diversity, George Mason University.

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Geneva Gay

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Culturally Responsive Teaching 9780807750780 | Teachers College Press

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The anti-bias leader has clarity of stance. To be able to articulate - This is what we are doing. This is what we believe in. This is who we are. This is what it is going to look like. It's not going to be easy. It is going to be uncomfortable at times, and sometimes you just need to sit with it. Not everything is solvable at first glance.
- Teacher
While there are many resources for early childhood teachers seeking to introduce anti-bias education in their classrooms, we realized there is little available on the complex work of leaders who set the stage for this approach. An anti-bias program puts diversity and equity goals at the center of all aspects of its organization and daily life. Systemic change requires a leader who takes an intentional and strategic approach.
In response, we have developed frameworks and strategies for addressing the big picture of working with staff, families and the community to create and sustain anti-bias programs. Our writing, presentations, and consultation services draw on many years as teachers, teacher educators and researchers, social justice activists, and leaders of early childhood programs. On this site you will find some background into who we are and the resources we have developed. We also invite you to share your experiences with leading anti-bias change in your own early childhood or teacher education program and in implementing the ideas and strategies that we offer on this site and in our publications.
- Louise, Debbie and John

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Anti-Bias Leaders in Early Childhood Education

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The anti-bias leader has clarity of stance. To be able to articulate - This is what we are doing. This is what we believe in. This is who we are. This is what it is going to look like. It's not going to be easy.

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List of materials, books, etc.

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Anti-bias curriculum is an approach to early childhood education that sets forth values-based principles and methodology in support of respecting and embracing differences and acting against bias and unfairness. Anti-bias teaching requires critical thinking and problem solving by both children and adults. The overarching goal is creating a climate of positive self and group identity development, through which every child will achieve her or his fullest potential.

The book, Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves, by Louise Derman-Sparks and Julie Olsen Edwards, offers practical guidance to early childhood educators (including parents) for confronting and eliminating barriers of prejudice, misinformation, and bias about specific aspects of personal and social identity; most importantly, it includes tips for adults and children to respect each other, themselves, and all people. Below you will find recommended books for young children, teachers, and parents for each chapter as well as additional resources on anti-bias themes and topics.

ARTICLES

ARTICLE COLLECTIONS
Available in English and Spanish
BOOKS

Recommended booklists that accompany the best selling NAEYC (National Association for the Education of Young Children) publication Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves.

DC EDUCATORS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE

Teaching for Change has launched a new initiative to help build and nurture a network of social justice educators in the D.C. metro area.

We have been inspired by the work of NYCORE, Teachers for Social Justice, NW Teachers for Social Justice, and more across the country. There are many social justice educators in the D.C. area, and we are long overdue for a network to offer support, engagement, and learning opportunities. Learn more.

FILM

This companion film to the book Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves is available for free viewing on Youtube.

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Anti-Bias Education - Teaching for Change

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Anti-bias curriculum is an approach to early childhood education that sets forth values-based principles and methodology in support of respecting and embracing differences and acting against bias and unfairness. Anti-bias teaching requires critical thinking and problem solving by both children and adults. The overarching goal is creating a climate of positive self and group identity ...

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First chapter

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Technology and interactive media joint position statement

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Technology and Young Children | National Association for the Education of Young Children | NAEYC

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© National Association for the Education of Young Children - Promoting excellence in early childhood education 1313 L St. NW, Suite 500, Washington, D.C. 20005 | (202)232-8777 | (800)424-2460 | webmaster@naeyc.org

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Giving you a bit more context about the group

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Link to the website