co-design

Sticky Notes, Clay, and Big Ideas: The Magic of Co-Designing Edtech with Kids

by Chris Berdik
March 18, 2025

The tables were strewn with multicolored pipe cleaners, clumps of clay, construction paper, markers, feathers, scissors, tape, and other arts and crafts materials. On a Friday afternoon last June, about

Building a Sandbox for Literacy Innovation

by Chris Berdik
February 18, 2025

The Joan Ganz Cooney Center with support from the Walton Family Foundation, is excited to announce a three-year initiative with a simple, yet profound goal: ensuring that the needs and

Can AI Help Kids Feel Creative?

by Michele Newman
September 24, 2024

We talk about kids and AI, and we talk about creativity and AI. But while we know that creativity impacts children’s development, identity formation, and learning, children’s creative experiences with

Designing for Children’s Best Podcast with Michael Preston: Building a Positive Digital Future for Kids, with Kids—Together

by Polina Lulu
May 29, 2024

I recently had the chance to chat with Michael Preston, Executive Director of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, for a new episode of the Designing for

Re-imagining Reading: How Reluctant Readers Would Design Their Own Educational Technology

by Medha Tare
March 8, 2024

According to NAEP only 14% of U.S. students reported reading for fun almost every day in 2023 – 13 percentage points lower than 2012 – and average reading scores have

Co-Design for a More Inclusive EdTech Ecosystem at SXSW Edu

by Administrator
February 3, 2024

March 7, 2024 Austin Convention Center Room 12ABThe current edtech market is full of products that claim to fulfill lesson plans and make assessment easier for teachers. But what if,

Co-designing the Digital Future with Kids, for Kids

by Administrator
August 7, 2023

What’s the secret to creating digital media products for kids that makes learning engaging and fun? We’ve found that including kids throughout the design process has many benefits: it empowers

“We would have created our own ‘adult’ version of fun”: Adult co-designers’ perspectives on designing technology with children

by Medha Tare and Mona Leigh Guha
June 22, 2023

What happens when you are trying to design a new technology for kids and things do not go as expected? In the case of the University of Maryland KidsTeam, you

Kindergarteners Are Co-Designers: Improving ScratchJr

by ScratchJr Team
June 8, 2023

Creative tools for children should be designed to ensure that learning is playful and engaging. At Scratch, we believe that it is important to use a co-design process, ensuring that

Identifying Opportunities to Design Equitable and Enriching Digital Experiences for All Children

by Medha Tare
April 17, 2023

Researchers gathered last month at the biennial Society for Research in Child Development conference in Salt Lake City to discuss the impacts of various technologies and media on children’s learning

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