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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

Families Matter: Designing Media for a Digital Age
Families Matter focuses on two complementary studies that document how families with young children are integrating digital media into the rhythm of daily life. Results from a survey of more than 800 parents of children ages 3 through ...

E-book QuickStudy
In line with our previous research on coviewing and intergenerational play, the research team at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center wants to get a sense of how interactions between adults and children are taking place wh...

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Events

Minnesota Round Table 2011 on Early Childhood Education
The Minnesota Round Table is a conference that brings together a panel of nationally recognized experts on children's issues for a lively discussion of a topic at the forefront of research and practice. This year's Round Table will focus on the im...

The New Coviewing: Designing for Learning through Joint Media Engagement
Produced by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop and LIFE Center, The New Coviewing: Designing for Learning through Joint Media Engagement explores the challenges and successes of bringing fa...

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Blog & Features

Studying E-Books at the New York Hall of Science
Just over a week ago, I had the pleasure of assisting members of the Cooney Center staff in a two-day research study at the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) in Queens, NY. The study, conducted in corroboration w...

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