Presentations

Mirabella, A., Berson, I. R., & Berson, M. J. (2025, April). Empowering voices: Implementing ethical practices for young children's assent in digital research. Symposium presentation at the American Educational Research Association 106th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.

Liu, J., He, H., Luo, W., Berson, I. R., Berson, M. J., Zhou, M., & Li, H. P. (2025, April). Visual language model-driven recognition of kindergarten children's emotional expressions during competitive games. Symposium presentation at the American Educational Research Association 106th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.

Berson, M. J., & Berson, I. R. (2025, March). Artificial Intelligence and the Social Studies: Civics. Keynote presentation at the Social Science Education Consortium Webinar.

Berson, M. J., Berson, I. R., Shank, P., Franklin, K., Fawley, V., Hochberg, E., Gilman, K., & O'Brien, J. (2024, November). Technology town hall: Inter"twine"ing Histories with Social Studies and Computer Science. Panel presentation at the National Council for the Social Studies 104th Annual Conference, Boston, MA.

Berson, I. R., & Berson, M. J. (2024, July). AI in K-12 social studies education: A critical examination of ethical and practical challenges. Paper presentation at the 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Recife, Brazil.

Berson, I. R. (2024, June). Playful innovation: A U.S. perspective on multimodal intelligence augmentation in early childhood education. Keynote presentation at Global Summit Roundtable: Early Childhood Education in the AI and Digital Age: Challenges and Prospects, Hong Kong.

Berson, M. J. (2024, June). Cultivating creative potential: AI and multimodal strategies in early childhood inquiry and play. Keynote presentation at Child Advancement Technologies & Global Pedagogies Team International Conference, Hong Kong.

Berson, I. R., & Berson, M. J. (2024, April). Ethical imperatives and pedagogical potentials: AI integration and primary source analysis in early childhood and elementary education. Symposium presentation at the American Educational Research Association 105th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

Berson, I. R., & Berson, M. J. (2024, April). Fragments of the past: Exploring multimodal creative inquiry in early childhood with AI-powered painting. Poster presentation at the American Educational Research Association 105th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

Gurjar, N., Berson, I. R., Berson, M. J., & Westerlin, S. (2024, March). The Early Childhood SIG Panel: Innovative practices with digital and information technologies in early childhood teacher education. Symposium at the 35th Annual Conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education, Las Vegas, NV.

Berson, I. R., & Berson, M. J. (2024, March). Mosaics of memory: The intersection of AI, historical imagery, and early childhood creativity. Paper presentation at the 35th Annual Conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education, Las Vegas, NV.

Berson, M. J., Berson, I. R., Gilman, K., O'Brien, J., & McCoy, M. (2023, December). Technology town hall: Transforming social studies with generative AI. Presentation at the National Council for the Social Studies 103rd Annual Conference, Nashville, TN.

Berson, I. R., & Berson, M. J. (2023, November). Integrating AI literacy into early childhood educator preparation. Presentation at the National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educator's Conference, Nashville, TN.

Berson, I. R., & Berson, M. J. (2023, July). Fostering creativity and learning: A jam session for early childhood teacher education. Presentation at the Association of Teacher Educators 2023 Summer Conference, Washington, DC.

Berson, I. R., & Berson, M. J. (2023, July). Fostering creative inquiry with AI-enabled technology in early childhood education. Presentation at Shanghai Institute of Early Childhood Education, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China.

Berson, I. R., & Berson, M. J. (2023, July). Synthetic media and digital literacy. Presentation at Shanghai Institute of Early Childhood Education, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China.

Berson, I. R., Berson, M. J., Luo, W., & He, H. (2023, July). Intelligence augmentation in early childhood education: A multimodal creative inquiry approach. Presentation at the 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Tokyo, Japan.

Berson, I. R., & Berson, M. J. (2023, May). Generative AI and primary sources. Presentation at the Library of Congress TPS Consortium Partner2Partner Meeting.

Berson, I. R., & Berson, M. J. (2022, June). Jam session: Playing with sounds while engaging in historical inquiry. Virtual practice session presentation at National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educator's Conference Summer 2022.

Berson, I. R., & Berson, M. J. (2021, April). Cybersecurity and teacher education. Panel presentation at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education Forum.

Berson, I. R., Berson, M. J., McKinnon, C., Aradhya, D. T., & Alyaeesh, M. (2021, April). Exploring the affordances of tangible technologies in scaffolding spatial concept development in preschoolers. Symposium at the American Educational Research Association 102nd Annual Meeting.

Berson, I. R., & Berson, M. J. (2020, April). Navigating our places and spaces: Traversing pathways between geospatial play and computational thinking. Symposium at the American Educational Research Association 101st Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. (Conference canceled)

Berson, I. R., Berson, M. J., Damjanovic, V., Luo, W., & Murcia, K. (2019, November). The pluriverse of technological innovation in the early years. Symposium at the 27th International Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education Conference, Las Cruces, NM.

Berson, I. R., Berson, M. J., Murcia, K., Caldas, E. R., & Damjanovic, V. (2019, August). Creating play-based inquiry experiences that support preschoolers' coding and computational thinking: Comparative perspectives from Australia and the United States. Paper presentation at the 10th World Education Research Association Focal Meeting, Tokyo, Japan.

Berson, I. R., Berson, M. J., Murcia, K., Luo, W., & Damjanovic, V. (2019, April). Digital play with tangible technologies in Australian and American preschools. Paper presentation at the 100th American Educational Research Association Meeting, Toronto, Canada.

Berson, I. R., & Berson, M. J. (2018, October). Intersection of fake news and cybersecurity. Keynote presentation at the Crossroads: Trans-Tasman Online Safety Conference, Auckland, New Zealand.

Berson, I. R., & Berson, M. J. (2018, October). Reflections on safety in a digital world. Closing presentation at the Netsafe Online Safety Education Symposium, Auckland, New Zealand.

Berson, I. R., & Berson, M. J. (2018, October). Cybersecurity and the everyday citizen: Promoting responsible habits from early childhood to the university years. Keynote presentation at the Netsafe Online Safety Education Symposium, Auckland, New Zealand.

Berson, I. R., & Berson, M. J. (2018, June). Creative coding. Panel presentation at Sixth Digital Literacy and Multimodal Practices of Young Children DigiLitEY Meeting, Riga, Latvia.

Berson, I. R., & Berson, M. J. (2017, September). Exploring our world with tangible technologies: Integrating robotics into inquiry project investigations in early childhood classrooms. Panel presentation at Digitising Early Childhood International Conference, Perth, Australia.

Berson, I. R., & Berson, M. J. (2017, September). Using evidence-based pedagogy to design digital games promoting inquiry with primary sources for elementary age learners. Presentation at the Curtin University Doctoral Colloquium, Perth, Australia.

Berson, M. J., & Berson, I. R. (2015, July). Cybersecurity and ethics on the web. Invited online presentation at the National Council for the Social Studies Technology Community Conference Planning & Tech Share Webinar, Silver Spring, MD.

Berson, M. J., & Berson, I. R. (2014, October). A critical conversation about cybersecurity, cybercitizenship and cybersafety in the schools. Invited session at the 21st Annual Conference of the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum, Tampa, FL.