creativity

When AI Gets It Wrong and What Children Can Learn From It

by Aayushi Dangol
September 29, 2025

Generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini) is increasingly becoming part of children’s digital lives. We are seeing a new world of personalized learning apps, AI-assisted storytelling platforms, and creative tools that

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

AI Knocking: What Can Parents of Young Kids Expect?

by Rotem Landesman
September 9, 2024

Although we are still in the midst of discovering the implications and opportunities that various technologies bring to our children’s (and our own) lives, we’re seeing a new technological innovation

Talking About Designing Tech for Well-Being at SXSW 2023

by Sarah Jacobstein and Emily Weissman
March 24, 2023

Where were all the influential tech and media companies hanging out in early March? They were all at SXSW 2023— and so was the Cooney Center! We’re back from an

Announcing the Winners of the Designing for Digital Thriving Challenge

by Mitch Reames, Riot Games
December 1, 2022

Building online communities that are healthy, inclusive, and allow people to be their authentic selves online is one of Riot’s core goals. It’s a complicated challenge and one we know

The “Learnification” of Gaming

by David Kleeman
July 7, 2022

Roblox is the only example I can think of when I was a child that was open world with endless possibilities, as limited as it was in 2008, it was

Making the Most of Screen Time During Winter Break

by Samantha Bindman, Kiley Sobel, Riddhi Divanji, and Sydney Parker
December 21, 2021

While young children are off school over winter break, many families will be looking for activities to keep kids learning and having fun. On cold winter days, creating art or

Engaging the Next Generation of Public Media Audiences

by Cooney Center Team
November 3, 2021

Public media is at a critical junction. Rapidly evolving technology ecosystems mean that new platforms, modes of engagement, and forms of content are driving every part of the media sector

Engaging Parents in Children’s Digital Learning—Without Charts and Graphs

by Jason Krogh
October 13, 2021

Like many digital learning products, Sago Miniprovides tools to engage parents in their child’s play experience. However, unlike most similar products, you won’t find a single chart, graph, score, or

Tami Bhaumik: The Future of Digital Play

by Tami Bhaumik
May 21, 2020

For the fourth part of this series, we asked experts to focus their predictions on digital play by answering the question, “How will the way children play with digital media

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