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AI Tools to Support Literacy & Computational Thinking at SXSW EDU 2025

Generative AI is here to stay—so how can we help children understand what it is and how to use it responsibly? On March 3, 2025, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center

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

Building a Sandbox for Literacy Innovation

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

AI Goes to School: Exploring AI’s Impact on Personalized Learning

I’ve recently read a few articles listing the pros, cons, and questions1 2 3 that come up when we think about the changes education will and is already experiencing with

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

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

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

Designing Edtech for Young Learners

Key ideas and recommendations for edtech developersChildren aren’t small adults. This might seem obvious to parents and educators, but, as we learned in our research for the recently released whitepaper,

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

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,

ARVR Policy Conference

On Thursday, September 14, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) and the XR Association present the third annual AR/VR Policy Conference in Washington, DC. The event will feature a

It’s Time to Get Excited About Immersive Tech in Schools

Technology may promise to disrupt. Yet, all too often in education, tech tools simply digitally replicate the ways we’ve always gone about teaching and learning. From gradebooks to slide decks,