Forty years after Joan Ganz Cooney's landmark study stimulated the creation of Sesame Street, a new center devoted to accelerating children's learning in a rapidly changing world was established.

The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop focuses on the new challenges children face today, asking the 21st century equivalent of her original question, "How can emerging media help children learn?"

Events

iPad Game Summit
The first iPad Game Summit will be held in San Francisco and is meant to suppo...

Dust or Magic 2011 App Camp
This May, designers and researchers interested in children’s apps will meet at Asilomar Conference Grounds on the Monterey Peninsula for the Second Annual Dust or Magic Chil...

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Blog & Features

Kids & Apps: The Pass-Back Effect Marches Forward
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Wooing Toddlers, From Naps to Apps
Brand Channel's Sheila Shayon explores our recent discoveries on children's iPhone apps from our recent publication: iLearn: A Content Analysis of the iTunes App Store's...

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Press Room

Why an iPhone could actually be good for your 3-year-old
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Parents Pass-Back Mobile Devices to Children But Are Skeptical of Educational Benefits
Report from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center Finds Parents Doubt Educational Value of Mobile Apps But Support New Experimentation New York, NY, November 10, 2010 - The explosive growth of mobile media is a current topi...

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Research & Initiatives

iLearn II: An Analysis of the Education Category on Apple's App Store
The Joan Ganz Cooney Center has released iLearn II: An Analysis of the Education Category of Apple's App Store, an examination of nearly 200 top-selling education category apps for Apple’s iPad and iPhone with the goal of under...

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