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

by Leslie Berkowitz
September 27, 2024

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

Reflections on Lloyd Morrisett and His Legacy

by Michael Preston
April 25, 2023

Lloyd Morrisett (November 2, 1929 – January 15, 2023) was the co-founder of Sesame Street and Children’s Television Workshop, and a founding board member of both the Workshop and the

Lili Toutounas: Reflections on 15 Years of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center

by Lili Toutounas
December 13, 2022

Lili Toutounas was in charge of keeping everything organized and running while she was at the Cooney Center. And while people have confused her for a stern British lady while

What Sesame Street Means to Me

by Benjamin Prud’homme
September 3, 2020

The following post was written by the Cooney Center’s summer intern, Benjamin Prud’homme. We are grateful for his contributions this summer and for making our weekly meetings so much fun.

A Letter from Joan Ganz Cooney

by Joan Ganz Cooney
December 9, 2019

You may have heard that television programming in the 1960s was called a “vast wasteland.” by then-FCC Chairman Newton Minow. From the beginning, Lloyd Morrisett and I were both convinced

The Report that Started It All

by Catherine Jhee
December 6, 2019

The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop is thrilled to present a newly reformatted version of Sesame Street co-founder Joan Ganz Cooney’s still-relevant 1966 report to the Carnegie Corporation of New

Can Public Media Level the Playing Field for All Kids?

by Catherine Jhee
November 5, 2019

When Sesame Street first went on the air in 1969, it was part of a movement to help public media reshape what then-FCC Chairman Newton Minow called “the vast wasteland”

Diversity: Brought to you by the letter E: Exposure & Empathy

by Jennifer Kotler Clarke
July 11, 2017

Thanks to the wonderful Dr. Jessica Piotrowski on behalf of the Center for Research on Children, Adolescents, and the Media in Amsterdam as well as Northwestern’s Center for Media &

Happy Anniversary, Sesame Street!

by Catherine Jhee
November 10, 2014

Forty five years ago today, the first episode of Sesame Street aired on PBS. As we celebrate the many ways that our friends Grover, Big Bird, and the rest of

Can Video Games Unite Generations in Learning?

by Alan Gershenfeld and Michael H. Levine
August 9, 2012

What makers of technology for early education can learn from Sesame Street. Whether you’re at a restaurant or on an airplane, you can’t miss changes in adult-child interactions from just a

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