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Cooney Center Represents at the 2014 Digital Media and Learning Conference

by Anna Ly
February 25, 2014

This year, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center will be a part of not just one, but two sessions at the Digital Media and Learning Conference, an annual event supported by

You(th) Media: The National STEM Video Game Challenge at Games for Change

by Christa Avampato
June 20, 2013

On Wednesday, a panel of education professionals, teachers, and tech-savvy students took the stage for the final day of the 10th annual Games for Change Festival held at New World

Join Us at the DML Conference! Getting Global With It: Youth Global Participation in the Digital Age

by Christina Hinton
March 13, 2013

Cooney Center fellow Christina Hinton is moderating a panel at the Digital Media and Learning (DML) Conference called Getting Global With It: Youth Global Participation in the Digital Age With

Developing Responsible, Caring, and Balanced Youth Conference

by Allison Mishkin
February 21, 2013

This conference focuses on preparing children to be caring people, ethical workers, and engaged citizens today and in the future amidst the rise of new devices. Hosted by Project Zero,

Badges: What Works and What Doesn’t

by Barry Joseph and Daria Ng
October 29, 2012

This past spring, Global Kids worked on a crowdsourced project to develop “Six Ways to Look at Badging Systems Designed for Learning,” a list of six different goals that badging

Every Summer Has a Story: Taking Lessons from Learning with Video Game Design into the Classroom

by Meagan Bromley
September 4, 2012

They say that every summer has a story, and now at the end of my experience teaching for the Gamestar Mechanic Online Learning Program, it’s time for my students’ stories

Kids as Game Designers: Fostering Creativity and Thoughtfulness with Online Learning

by Meagan Bromley
August 14, 2012

Much of what we hear when people talk about games for learning may be behind the potential of video games to teach traditional content, but there’s also a very exciting, and

From the Virtual Teaching Frontlines: Game Design Summer Program

by Meagan Bromley
July 30, 2012

As a graduate student studying games for learning, and a general geek extraordinaire, I’ve been given the unique opportunity this summer to teach a new online program for kids who

Designing Games for Students

by Martin Esterman
July 25, 2012

Hello again! When I wrote my blog post on my experiences as one of the Educator Winners from the 2012 STEM Video Game Challenge, I didn’t have a chance to discuss

Math Teacher Designs Winning Game for Students

by Martin Esterman
July 16, 2012

Hello everyone! My name is Marty Esterman and I am the Educator Grand Prize winner for the PBS Kids stream in this year’s STEM Video Game Challenge event for my

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