Tag Archives: design

Conversations about children and technology tend to cluster around moments of acquisition: When should a child get a phone? Is this app appropriate? Is it too early … or already

As a professor in reading and children’s media, I often get the chance to work with developers to bring digital books to life. The idea sounds simple: take a beloved

What does AI owe children? is the guiding question for this Paris Peace Forum conversation and  iRAISE Alliance stakeholders, which include policymakers, international organizations, researchers, and representatives of the industry.

Over the past two years, we’ve had the privilege of supporting two incredible cohorts of Well-Being by Design Fellows—talented designers reimagining digital experiences that capture children’s attention while centering their

What did our 2025 Well-Being by Design Fellows learn about designing tech with kids’ well-being in mind? A lot, it turns out!During the intensive five-month program, the 12 mid-career designers

Join the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at the Games for Change 2025 Festival on Friday, June 27 for a workshop on creating games that promote children’s well-being. Hear how Fred

The Joan Ganz Cooney Center has officially welcomed the first six edtech partners into the Cooney Center Sandbox for Literacy Innovations. Supported in part by the Walton Family Foundation, the Sandbox

The Cooney Center’s new initiative matters for kids and teachersEarly in my education career, I taught ninth-grade English in a small public high school. My vivacious, curious students came from

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

In the last five years, there has been mounting public interest in the relationship between digital technology use and children’s wellbeing. New policies and legislation aimed at promoting children’s rights