EdTech Week: “Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street? Designing EdTech for Impact”
Columbia University, Teachers College
Thursday, October 10, 2024
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
[Invite-only] Lunch & Learn: “Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street? Designing EdTech for Impact”
Sesame Street has been a successful edtech innovation for more than 50 years because it is both engaging and educationally effective for children and families. Over lunch in an interactive session, panelists who work at and with Sesame Workshop will share how they design for impact. They will discuss how to engage your target audience in different stages of product development, from goal setting to measuring success. They’ll also feature design principles and processes, considering on-going improvements, as well as the impact of innovation in the context of a larger ecosystem.
Speakers
- Azadeh Jamalian, The Giant Room, Founder and CEO
- Emily Reardon, Sesame Workshop, Director of User Experience
- Lalitha Vasudevan, Digital Futures Institute at Teachers College, Professor of Technology and Education, Vice Dean for Digital Innovation, and Managing Director
- Michael Preston, Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, Executive Director
- Thomas Bailey, Teachers College, Columbia University, President
