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Welcome Elisabeth McClure, Cooney Center Research Fellow

by Catherine Jhee
September 30, 2015

We’re pleased to introduce our newest Cooney Center Fellow, Elisabeth McClure. She has just joined us this month from Georgetown University, where she is completing her PhD in Human Development

Four ways to tell if an educational app will actually help your child learn

by Jennifer M. Zosh, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Roberta Golinkof
May 7, 2015

Imagine someone telling you that a new technology would be available in five years that has the potential to revolutionise childhood and early education. But the downside is that you

Designing Media for Underserved Families

by Briana Pressey and RocÍo Almanza-Guillén
February 16, 2015

A Collaborative ExperimentOn January 23, 2015, researchers, educators, and digital media professionals spent the day at Stanford’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (aka the d.school) to imagine how to better

Four Surprises in Scholastic’s National Survey of Children’s Reading

by Lisa Guernsey
January 13, 2015

Last week Scholastic released the Kids and Family Reading Report, its annual survey of children’s reading, and some of the results run counter to conventional wisdom about how much children

What’s in Store Today: A Snapshot of Kids’ Language and Literacy Apps (Part 1)

by Anna Ly
August 15, 2014

Apps for social communication, learning, and play are a prominent part of nearly every family’s life today. Are they having a similar impact on how families and educators help their

From Mars to Minecraft: Teachers Bring the Arcade to the Classroom

by Jordan Shapiro
July 21, 2014

Part 11 of MindShift’s Guide to Games and Learning. Teachers have found many different ways of using digital games in the classroom. But what kind of games are these students

Benefits of Gaming: What Research Shows

by Jordan Shapiro
June 20, 2014

Part 7 of MindShift’s Guide to Games and Learning. Games and learning advocates often come up against the video game stigma. Despite the fact that we’ve now seen decades of

Psychology of Research in Mathematics Education (PME)

by Sam Zelitch
June 17, 2014

Mathematics Education at the Edge provides opportunities to highlight and examine mathematics education research that is: 1) breaking new ground or on the cutting edge of innovative research and research

Available Now: Media and the Well-Being of Children and Adolescents

by Administrator
May 27, 2014

This spring, Oxford University Press released an important new contribution to the literature of media and developmental psychology with Media and the Well-Being of Children and Adolescents, edited by Amy

Reflections on CHI 2014

by Meryl Alper
May 5, 2014

Thanks to some fairly frequent conference travel over the past few years, my understanding of what makes up “the world of kids, media, and technology” is constantly expanding and changing.

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