Thought leaders and colleagues from a long list
of organizations have encouraged us, nudged us and been our «media mentors», including: Fred Rogers Center for
Early Learning and Children's Media at Saint Vincent College; American Library Association (ALA); Association
of Children's Museums (ACM); Association
of Library Service to Children (ALSC); Catherine Cook School; Center for Media and Child Health at Boston Children's Hospital; Center for Media and
Human Development at Northwestern University; Chicago Children's Museum; Chicago Public Library; Chicago STEM Pathways Cooperative; Children's Technology Review; Columbia College Chicago; CPB / PBS Ready to Learn;
Early Childhood Australia Digital Policy Group and Live Wires;
Early Childhood Futures, Learning Sciences Institute Australia, Australian Catholic University;
Early Childhood
Investigations;
Early Childhood STEM Working Group; HITN
Early Learning Collaborative; Illinois Computing Educators (ICE); Illinois Institute
of Technology (IIT); Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop; Kohl Children's Museum; Language Castle; Little eLit; National Association for the Education
of Young Children (NAEYC); National Association
of Media Literacy Education (NAMLE); New America; New Zealand Tertiary College; Technology and Young Children Interest Forum
of NAEYC; and Waterford Institute,
Early Education and Technology for Children (EETC)