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“A Beautiful Interaction”: How Children’s Podcasts Support Joint Media Engagement

by Libby Hunt
August 26, 2025

While podcasts have been a popular source of entertainment and information for adults for well over a decade, children’s podcasts have been gaining momentum just over the past few years.

Into the Digital Future: Fostering Well-being in the Digital Age with Melissa Mercado

by Laura Higgins and Jordan Shapiro
November 7, 2023

Join us for a conversation with Melissa Mercado, a lead researcher at the CDC, where she addresses the challenges of digital harassment and online safety. Alongside Laura and Jordan, she

READY, Player Two? Asking parents about their kids and video games today

by Meagan Henry, Jan Plass, and Bruce Homer
October 26, 2022

At a time when young people’s mental health and well-being is of paramount importance, the LEGO Group and NYU are partnering with the Joan Ganz Cooney Center to investigate the

What we can learn from families: Challenges and creative adaptations in the face of school building closures during COVID

by Brigid Barron, Susie Garcia, Caitlin K. Martin, Rose K. Pozos
August 3, 2021

When schools across the U.S. shut their doors in March 2020, families were confronted with the reality that our educational systems were not designed for remote instruction. Lack of access

Rosemarie Truglio: One Thing We Must Do Now

by Rosemarie Truglio
April 7, 2020

What is one thing you believe must be done now to improve how children and families are faring during the current crisis, specifically as it relates to the media and

Ralph Smith: One Thing We Must Do Now

by Ralph Smith
April 7, 2020

What is one thing you believe must be done now to improve how children and families are faring during the current crisis, specifically as it relates to the media and

Helping Young Children Develop Early Science Skills

by Rosemarie Truglio, PhD
January 28, 2020

With Sesame Street: Ready for School! A Parent’s Guide to Playful Learning for Children Ages 2 to 5, Dr. Rosemarie Truglio shares the research-based, curriculum-directed school readiness skills that have made

Ruff Family Science: Using Media to Support Multi-Generational Science Learning

by Lisa Hamanaka Ellsworth
October 9, 2019

Asha and her 6-year-old daughter, Zara, take deep breaths and blow onto the sails of their sail cars. The cars roll away…quickly at first before slowing to a stop. Zara

My Child, Media, and Technology: Providing Guidance to Working Parents

by Maria Alvarez
June 12, 2019

As media and technology have an increasing presence in our lives, more parents are seeking guidance in how to select the best media for their little ones. That has been

How Latino children in the U.S. engage in collaborative online information problem solving with their families

by Wendy Roldan
November 13, 2018

This guest post summarizes a research paper discussing how Latino children collaboratively search the internet with their adult family members to solve family needs. The research for this project began while

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