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The 2025 WBxD Fellows Take Their Show on the Road

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

The Cooney Center Sandbox: Embedding Literacy Expertise in Edtech Innovation

Earlier this year, the edtech startup LitLab began testing a new feature in their classroom product that creates AI-generated storybooks for early readers. The feature is a “record me” option

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

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

Call for Applications: Well-Being by Design Fellowship 2025

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

Talking About Designing Tech for Well-Being at SXSW 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

Building Tools Parents Want to Use

Parents often quip that children do not “come with instructions.” Underlying this joke is a real interest in supporting their children’s learning and development, but not always knowing how. And

The “Learnification” of Gaming

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

Children’s Media Developers: The Spotlight is On

When the Cooney Center published D is for Digital over 10 years ago, our goal was to insert the positive potential of kids media into the national conversation around children’s

Immersive Media and Child Development

This past November 7 and 8, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, Center for Science and the Imagination and the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State

A Piece of the Puzzle: How Media Can Support the Development of Empathy, Tolerance, and Prosocial Values in the Classroom

Last month, researchers AnneMarie McClain and Lacey Hilliard presented some exciting findings from a a study they conducted around classroom media and socio-emotional learning among elementary school students at the International