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?"
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Research & Initiatives
Kids Closer Up: Case Studies of Digital Youth
Researchers from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center observed four ordinary 8-year-old girls to get a sense of what they are doing on Club Penguin, with their Nintendo DS s...
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Events
Logging Into the Playground: How Digital Media Are Shaping Children's Learning
The Cooney Center's inaugural leadership forum was held at The McGraw-Hill Corporate Headquarters on May 9th, 2008. Key leaders from the fields of research, industry, policy, philanthropy, and education convened to examine how rec...
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Blog & Features
Games + Government = Engaged Citizens
We suggest you explore iCivics, a beautiful new series of Flash games designed to raise civic knowledge and participation. The first game "Do You Have ...
Learning Across Silos: An Integrated Approach to the Creativity Crisis
In our first po...
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