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
Market Scan Report: D Is for Digital
Cooney Center Fellow Carly Shuler, an expert in children's media and the educational toy industry, has conducted a scan and analysis of the children's interactive media environment with a focus on mass marketed produc...
Policy Brief: Getting Over the Slump: Innovation Strategies to Promote Children's Learning
Dr. James Paul Gee, the Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University and a leading authority on literacy and the potential of educational games, is working wit...
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Blog & Features
Grantmakers for Education Remarks
The following remarks were delivered by Sesame Workshop CEO Gary E. Knell at the Grantmakers for Education annual conference last week.The end of World War II was a pivotal moment in our nation’s history – it was...
Generation Mobile
On Tuesday, December 14 the FCC is hosting Generation Mobile, a forum that will bring together teenagers, parents, educators, and experts to discuss the many opportunities and challenges a...
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Events
Digital Media and Learning 2012: Beyond Educational Technology
The Digital Media and Learning Conference is an annual event supported by the MacArthur Foundation and organized by the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub at University of California, Irvine. The conference is meant to be an inclusive, intern...
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