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Experts Guide Innovations in Literacy Learning

by Elizabeth Rood
April 21, 2025

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

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

What Children Think About “Age Appropriateness” in Games

by Bronwyn Swerdfager, Riley McNair, and Alan Bui
November 4, 2024

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

EdTech Week: “Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street? Designing EdTech for Impact”

by Leslie Berkowitz
September 27, 2024

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

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

Call for Applications: Well-Being by Design Fellowship 2025

by Sarah Jacobstein
September 6, 2024

The Call for Applications is now open through October 11, 2024. If you follow our work, you may have seen the incredible results produced by our inaugural cohort of Well-Being

Preparing Engineers to Design the Future of Well-being in Digital Spaces

by Franceli Cibrian
July 30, 2024

As an instructor at the Fowler School of Engineering at Chapman University, I teach an undergraduate Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) class regularly. This class is a hands-on, project-based course that teaches

Bringing RITEC Learnings to Life and Putting them into Practice

by Sarah Jacobstein
July 16, 2024

During the week of the 2024 Games for Change Festival, the Cooney Center had the privilege of helping to organize a series of events to bring the Responsible Innovation in

New Research from UNICEF Innocenti Tests the RITEC Framework with Kids

by Sarah Jacobstein
April 30, 2024

We are very excited to share new research produced by UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight as part of the Responsible Innovation in Technology for Children (RITEC)

Digital Safety and Well-Being at the PRIVO Children’s Digital Privacy Summit

by Sarah Jacobstein
February 22, 2024

The Cooney Center was honored to be invited to PRIVO’s inaugural Children’s Digital Privacy Summit in Los Angeles in January. We don’t have the opportunity to connect with those in

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