Fwd: Learning Designer: Children and Media new position @ LeapFrog

[Maria Droujkova]

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From: Jim Gray <JG...@leapfrog.com>

Dear Colleague,

With apologies for the mass email, below and attached is the description of a new Learning Designer position in my department.  The focus is designing for interactive screens, books, toys, environments and connections among them to enhance learning and play for children 2-6 and their families.  Highly collaborative working environment.

 

Please forward it to any qualified colleagues or students.

Best,

Jim.

 

Dr. Jim Gray

Director of Learning

LeapFrog Enterprises

6401 Hollis Street, Suite 100

Emeryville, CA 94608

http://bit.ly/aVIg6U

 

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Opening:  Learning Designer: Children and Media

Status: Fulltime, permanent

Available:  July, 2010

Location:  Emeryville, CA

Apply:  http://jobs.leapfrog.com/

 

Company Overview

LeapFrog is a leading designer, developer and marketer of innovative, technology-based educational products that make learning fun.  With more than 120 million educational platforms, books and games in homes worldwide, and multi-sensory technology in more than 100,000 US classrooms, the LeapFrog learning brand is trusted by parents, valued by teachers and loved by children.  Many of LeapFrog's newest learning products connect to the internet, for rich, offline/online experiences that parents and children can personalize.

 

Position Overview

The Learning Team at LeapFrog is responsible for the educational quality of content and pedagogy across all products including toys, platforms, and web.  Maintaining and enhancing high-quality learning design is a core company value, fundamental to our competitive advantage.  Learning Designers are responsible for the educational quality of products in one or more domains.  This position focuses on how digital media - including interactive screens, books, toys, and environments - can best enhance children's learning and play, including transmedia approaches that connect experiences across media and involve children and families. The Learning Designer: Children and Media reports to the Director of Learning.

 

Responsibilities:

• Be an internal expert on the intersection of children, technology, and learning with a special focus on innovative approaches to transmedia and mobile learning.
• Advise producers, game designers, product designers, web developers, and company leaders on appropriate content, pedagogy and assessment strategies.
• Review materials and product prototypes and make design recommendations.
• Collaborate with the Research Dept on formative and summative assessments of learning processes and outcomes.
• Maintain a library of related resources and external consultants.
• Stay current on related scholarly and business trends. 

 

Qualifications

• Knowledge of how children learn and develop from infancy through adolescence, especially ages 2-6 years.
• Familiar with traditional and innovative strategies for teaching, learning, and assessment in both formal and informal settings.
• 10+ years experience teaching with or designing technology-enhanced learning materials in informal learning environments (homes, museums, after-school programs) or early childhood classrooms.
• Experience in the design and analysis of learning across media.
• Experience working with or designing for families a plus.
• Familiar with product development processes a plus
• Experience planning and conducting workshops
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Very organized, attention to detail.
• Graduate degree in Child Development, Education, the Learning Sciences, or related fields. Doctorate a plus.