Tag Archives: digital games

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Playing with Well-Being By Design at Games for Change 2025

Join the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at the Games for Change 2025 Festival on Friday, June 27 for a workshop on creating games that promote children’s well-being. Hear how Fred

Bringing RITEC Learnings to Life and Putting them into Practice

During the week of the 2024 Games for Change Festival, the Cooney Center had the privilege of helping to organize a series of events to bring the Responsible Innovation in

Digital Safety and Well-Being at the PRIVO Children’s Digital Privacy Summit

The Cooney Center was honored to be invited to PRIVO’s inaugural Children’s Digital Privacy Summit in Los Angeles in January. We don’t have the opportunity to connect with those in

iCan Change the World: Virtual Platforms, Real Influence

Dubit CEO Matthew Warneford estimates that within a decade, a million people will make their living from the metaverse. Another 100 million will build in immersive spaces for their own

READY, Player Two? Asking parents about their kids and video games today

At a time when young people’s mental health and well-being is of paramount importance, the LEGO Group and NYU are partnering with the Joan Ganz Cooney Center to investigate the

Jesse Schell: The Future of Digital Play

For the fourth part of this series, we asked experts to focus their predictions on digital play by answering the question, “How will the way children play with digital media

Connecting Across Worlds: How Empathy and Play Can Support Connection

How do we live together in a connected world? How do we cultivate “global citizens” who can relate to others—across international borders and Internet forums, or political aisles and bus

Families and Pokémon GO

On July 6, 2016, Niantic, Inc. released Pokémon GO, which quickly became one of the most popular mobile game apps in history. In this location-based mobile game, players use the GPS

Using Games as Primary Sources and Primary Sources as Games

Imagine you were playing a game of Trivial Pursuit and this was your question: What institution has the largest collection of primary sources in the world, a board game on human morality,

Parents! Please Take Our Survey About Games and Family Life

Are you the parent or guardian of a child between 4 and 13 years of age?  Does your child play video games?  If so, you are eligible to take a