Forty years after Joan Ganz Cooney's landmark study stimulated the creation of Sesame Street, Sesame Workshop has established a new center devoted to accelerating children's learning in a rapidly changing world.
The Joan Ganz Cooney Center will focus new attention on the challenges children face today, asking the 21st century equivalent of her original question, "How can emerging media help children learn?"
Logging Into the Playground Wrap-Up
The Center's inaugural symposium, Logging Into the Playground: How Digital Media Are Shaping Children’s Learning, brought together 200 people from the fields of education, children’s media, entertainment, and public policy. See video highlights, including Bing Gordon’s keynote address, on our YouTube channel.
Here’s what a few attendees had to say about it:
“It was a timely, important, and inspirational get-together.”
“I have never seen such a group of influential people willing to start not only the dialogue, but the work that will define the kind of education that our children deserve.”
“I loved the demonstration portion. I ran out and bought a Wii on Saturday.”
“Thank you for including me. It certainly was THE ticket in kids’ media.”
Growing Up Digital: Adults Rate the Educational Potential of New Media and 21st Century Skills
The Center is excited to announce results from a national survey conducted with Common Sense Media that examines parents' and educators' attitudes regarding digital media use in young children. Among the findings, parents expressed skepticism about the value of many digital media platforms, particularly when it came to whether digital media could teach kids how to communicate and collaborate, skills that are essential in a 21st-century workforce.
Getting Over the Slump: Innovation Strategies to Promote Children's Learning
Noted literacy and video games expert and Cooney Center advisory board member Dr. James Paul Gee examines how conventional and “new” literacies can converge with emerging media to produce a powerful new learning equation that can stimulate both our early education system and our children's abilities to innovate and create.
email : cooney.center@sesameworkshop.org
phone : 212-595-3456
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