Joan Ganz Cooney understood that children’s media does not exist in isolation. Parents, caregivers, and teachers help children connect what happens on screen to the world around them.
This week, our contributors to The Blueprint Outlasted the Medium consider the role of the caring adult in a media landscape that is increasingly personalized, pervasive, and difficult to navigate—and how technology can support, rather than replace, human connection.
There is evidence that parents everywhere in the country, cutting across all economic lines, are seeking more and more information about what they can do to insure the maximum development of their children’s intellectual abilities.
Sherrie Westin | Kay Wilson Stallings | Dana Suskind | Sonia Livingstone
Ellen Wartella | Milton Chen
Read more contributions to The Blueprint Outlasted the Medium: The Potential Uses of Television in Preschool Education, Sixty Years Later.
