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Immersive, Engaging, and Good for Kids: Designing XR for Youth at Games for Change 2026

by Elizabeth Rood
August 17, 2026

On July 21, I had the pleasure of sitting down with David Kleeman, Azi Jamalian, Asante Asiedu, and Jesse Schell to talk through the challenges and opportunities of making quality

Celebrating Our 2026 Well-Being by Design Fellows

by Catherine Jhee
May 21, 2026

On May 19, 2026 the Joan Ganz Cooney Center celebrated our third cohort of Well-Being by Design Fellows with a webinar bringing together designers, researchers, game developers, educators, and media

ARVR Policy Conference

by Administrator
August 29, 2023

On Thursday, September 14, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) and the XR Association present the third annual AR/VR Policy Conference in Washington, DC. The event will feature a

It’s Time to Get Excited About Immersive Tech in Schools

by Elizabeth Rood
June 20, 2023

Technology may promise to disrupt. Yet, all too often in education, tech tools simply digitally replicate the ways we’ve always gone about teaching and learning. From gradebooks to slide decks,

Teasing Apart the Teacher-Technology Puzzle

by Katharine Chen, Riddhi Divanji, and Lisa Castaneda, foundry10
February 8, 2023

Technology can be a transformative learning tool in the classroom. According to The National Education Technology Plan (NETP), technology has the potential to “affirm and advance relationships between educators and

XR’s Potential for Engagement and Impact in Student-Centered Learning

by Catherine Jhee
August 3, 2022

In July 2022, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center hosted a panel at the Games for Change Festival in New York City. Led by Cooney Center Executive Director Michael Preston, the

Oh, Who Are the People in Your Metaverse…

by David Kleeman
December 1, 2021

With the recent announcement of the new umbrella name “Meta,” the Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp behemoth is shifting its place of business to the “metaverse.” It seems timely, then, to consider what we

Kids at Home During School Closure: Is Virtual Reality Helping Them?

by Géraldine Fauville, Marijn Mado and Jeremy Bailenson
May 18, 2020

Our colleagues at Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab are conducting a research survey to investigate the role of VR in educational strategies catered to children while families are sheltering

What Kids Need from VR and AR Designers

by Sam Bindman and Kiley Sobel
August 19, 2019

On June 15, 2019, we—along with the JGCC’s Deputy Director and Head of Research Lori Takeuchi and foundry10’s Co-founder and CEO Lisa Castaneda—convened a group of experts at the Interaction

What Will it Take for Virtual Reality to Become Education’s Next Big Reality?

by Catherine Jhee
August 13, 2019

At the XR for Change Summit in New York City in June 2019, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center hosted a cross-disciplinary panel of experts to discuss the potential impact and

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