Dr. Warren Buckleitner speaks at EETC 2012

Dr. Warren Buckleitner presents "Ten Affordances of Multi-touch That Every Educator Must Know" at the 2012 Early Education and Technology for Children conference.

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Biography:

Warren Buckleitner—a former preschool, elementary, and college teacher—is an expert on children and technology. He is the founding editor of Children's Technology Review, he covers kids' technology for the New York Times "Gadgetwise" blog, and he is a contributing editor to Scholastic Parent & Child. Dr. Buckleitner holds degrees in elementary education from Central Michigan University, an MA in early childhood education from the High/Scope Foundation and Pacific Oaks College, and a PhD in educational psychology from Michigan State University. He is the founder of the Mediatech Foundation, a nonprofit community technology center dedicated to "town made better with technology," and is the founder of the Dust or Magic Institute on the Design of Children's Interactive Media.

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