learning from hollywood

Action! An update from TASC on its Action Group.

by Susan Brenna
February 15, 2012

In 2011, The Cooney Center formed six action teams, based on geographical location. The teams were charged with building promising practices and scalable models of the ways that media, and

Do We Have the Will to Help Guide the Digital Natives?

by Dale Lipschultz
July 26, 2011

Dale Lipschultz, Literacy Officer for the American Library Association, was a panelist in the “Targeted Public Engagement Campaigns” session at the Learning from Hollywood Forum. She is also helping to

Taking Action in New York with TASC

by Susan Brenna
July 11, 2011

We were thrilled by the energy and enthusiasm that the Action Teams brought to the Cooney Center Leadership Forum last May. The seven groups that we brought together willingly embraced

The Power of Storytelling

by Gary Knell
June 27, 2011

According to research by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the typical American child — age 8 to 18 — spends no less than seven and a half hours a day engaged

Reflections on the Learning from Hollywood Forum: Storytelling and Collaboration

by Makeda Mays Green
June 22, 2011

Makeda Mays Green is the Director of Education and Research for Digital Media at Sesame Workshop. We were lucky to have her join us in LA for the Leadership Forum

Learning from Learning from Hollywood

by Meryl Alper
May 20, 2011

While managing the @cooneycenter Twitter feed and live blog during this week’s Learning From Hollywood Forum, my mental gears were continuously whirring. Rich threads of conversation spun back and forth

Video: Joan Ganz Cooney Center Leadership Forum: Learning from Hollywood

by Catherine Jhee
May 17, 2011

These videos are courtesy of Scott Traylor, 360kid.com.

Pittsburgh’s Ecosystem for Kids+Creativity

by Administrator
May 15, 2011

Merriam Webster defines an ecosystem as “the complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit.” The Kids+Creativity movement in Pittsburgh is creating a new

Meeting Kids Wherever They Are

by Francie Alexander
May 15, 2011

Scholastic has a 90-year history of helping kids learn to read and encouraging them to love to read. A recent New York Times editorial asks, “Should we be alarmed?” about

The Thin Line Between Education and Entertainment

by Scott Traylor
May 13, 2011

If you were challenged to define what math is, what would you say? How about science? What makes the two different, or maybe even the same? I started exploring the

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