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    • Family Digital Wellness Day in Roxbury, MA

    NEW DATE! Attention, all Boston-area families: Are you looking to start off the school year with healthy digital habits? We’re excited to share Family Digital Wellness Day, a free family event at the Roxbury YMCA!  Drop in any time between 12:00 pm -2:00 pm on Saturday, October 10 for interactive activities that will help families
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    Incubating Innovation in Literacy Edtech at EdTech Week 2026

    This panel highlights innovative, research-informed design practices for creating high-quality literacy technologies for children across home and school contexts. We will demonstrate how tools can be designed to be both child-centered and aligned with the latest learning sciences research. Bringing together designers, researchers, educators, and funders, the panel showcases how cross-sector collaboration strengthens impactful edtech.
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    Sharing the Secret Sauce: Translating Research into Practice with Sesame Workshop & The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Meaningful Play 2026

    Join Sesame Workshop & The Joan Ganz Cooney Center for a 90-minute playful, interactive workshop at Meaningful Play. We’ll share case studies on how we’ve applied research to practice, introduce the Sesame Workshop Model and the Co-Design with Kids Toolkit for designing for kids’ joy and well-being, and offer opportunities for you to practice what
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    Empowered or Outsourced: Rethinking Student Agency in the Age of AI at EdTech Week

    As artificial intelligence tools become fixtures in classrooms and on campuses, educators face a question that cuts to the heart of learning itself: are students becoming more capable, or are they quietly ceding the cognitive work that makes education meaningful? This panel brings together researchers, practitioners, and instructional designers to examine how AI is reshaping
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    Turning the Page: How We Build Future Readers in the Age of [Constant] Distraction at Culture & Growth Summit

    Attention is the scarcest resource of our time. Kids and adults are drifting away from reading for pleasure as the pull of scrolling and endless notifications get stronger. Consequently, concerns around declines in literacy and critical thinking skills are growing. In this session, David Adams (Urban Assembly), Dr. Angelica DaSilva (Joan Ganz Cooney Center), Asaf
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