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Into the Digital Future: What Black Feminism Can Teach Us About Children’s Media Experiences with Amanda LaTasha Armstrong
Dr. Chester Pierce and the “Hidden Curriculum” of Sesame Street
February 22, 2021
In 1968, a year before Sesame Street went on the air, the fledgling Children’s Television Workshop (CTW) staff—including Joan Ganz Cooney, Robert Davidson, David Connell, Dr. Edward Palmer, Barbara Frengal, Samuel Gibbon, Anne Bower, James McConnell, and John Stone—conducted a seminar covering five key topic areas that Joan Ganz Cooney had identified in her extensive report to the Carnegie Corporation in 1966, The Potential Uses of Television in Preschool Television. The seminars brought together leading experts in the fields of…
Equity & Inclusivity at IDC: A Workshop at the Interaction Design & Children Conference
August 8, 2017
The 2017 Interaction Design and Children (IDC) conference took place at Stanford University in California this past June. The conference brought together an amazing community of researchers, designers, educators, and industry specialists who are interested in designing (primarily technology and new media experiences) for and with children. Before the conference began, various groups of people put on one-day IDC workshops focusing on topics spanning from joint media engagement to making to co-design. My co-organizers Dr. Julie A. Kientz (University of Washington), Dr.…
