professional development

Announcing the 2026 Well-Being by Design Fellowship: Empowering Designers to Help Children Thrive

by Sarah Jacobstein
September 15, 2025

Over the past two years, we’ve had the privilege of supporting two incredible cohorts of Well-Being by Design Fellows—talented designers reimagining digital experiences that capture children’s attention while centering their

Call for Applications: Well-Being by Design Fellowship 2025

by Sarah Jacobstein
September 6, 2024

The Call for Applications is now open through October 11, 2024. If you follow our work, you may have seen the incredible results produced by our inaugural cohort of Well-Being

Celebrating Our Inaugural Well-Being by Design Fellows

by Catherine Jhee
July 12, 2024

In 2024, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center invited 10 professionals who design kids tech to join us for the inaugural Well-Being by Design Fellowship. The organizations that these fellows represent

Well-Being by Design Fellowship: Call for Applications

by Medha Tare
September 13, 2023

The Call for Applications period has closed. Please learn about our Fellows here!The Cooney Center is excited to announce our new Well-being by Design Fellowship, supported by Pinterest. We invite

It’s Time to Get Excited About Immersive Tech in Schools

by Elizabeth Rood
June 20, 2023

Technology may promise to disrupt. Yet, all too often in education, tech tools simply digitally replicate the ways we’ve always gone about teaching and learning. From gradebooks to slide decks,

What Will it Take for Virtual Reality to Become Education’s Next Big Reality?

by Catherine Jhee
August 13, 2019

At the XR for Change Summit in New York City in June 2019, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center hosted a cross-disciplinary panel of experts to discuss the potential impact and

Summit Builds Network of Early STEM Advocates in Idaho

by Erica Compton
February 5, 2019

On October 26, 2018, over 50 key stakeholders in early education gathered at the Idaho Early STEM Summit in Boise. Led by the Idaho STEM Action Center (STEM AC), this

Tech and Young Children: U.S. Dept. of Ed Elevates Need for Guidance and PD

by Lisa Guernsey
September 14, 2015

Now that digital technologies—and touch-screen tablets in particular—are finding their way into preschool and kindergarten classrooms, educators are faced with multiple questions about if, how, and when it is best

Teaching with Digital Games: Webinar Available on Demand

by Administrator
March 24, 2015

On March 23, Michael Levine presented “Teaching with Digital Games,” a webinar for the Share My Lesson Virtual Conference with Rebecca Rufo-Tepper from the Institute of Play. The session was

Busting Barriers Or Just Dabbling?: How Teachers Are Using Digital Games In K-8 Classrooms

by Sarah Vaala
October 21, 2014

I spent last weekend on a camping trip with extended family. Having just completed a report on the use of digital games in the classroom, I was more than a

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