Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop
@cooneycenter.bsky.social
Advancing Positive Futures for Kids in the Digital World
What do you get when you mix app studio Sago Mini with kids and co-design? Serious fun. Read more about co-design and Sago Mini's work in the Sandbox for Literacy Innovations on the blog: joanganzcooneycenter.org/2025/11/20/f...
November 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
What do you get when you mix app studio Sago Mini with kids and co-design? Serious fun. Read more about co-design and Sago Mini's work in the Sandbox for Literacy Innovations on the blog: joanganzcooneycenter.org/2025/11/20/f...
Happy #ThrowbackThursday! We're revisiting the 2014 Joan Ganz Cooney Center publication "Family Time with Apps: A Guide to Using Apps with Your Kids." The same ideas are still relevant today, so we've updated it for 2025. Learn more about the guide: joanganzcooneycenter.org/publication/...
November 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Happy #ThrowbackThursday! We're revisiting the 2014 Joan Ganz Cooney Center publication "Family Time with Apps: A Guide to Using Apps with Your Kids." The same ideas are still relevant today, so we've updated it for 2025. Learn more about the guide: joanganzcooneycenter.org/publication/...
Why do parents allow or not allow kids 12 and under to use smartphones? This new report from @pewresearch.org digs into some of the nuances behind that decision.
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Tablets and smartphones are common for kids 12 and younger, according to their parents – TV even more so. And AI is part of the mix for some kids. …
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November 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Why do parents allow or not allow kids 12 and under to use smartphones? This new report from @pewresearch.org digs into some of the nuances behind that decision.
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📣 Calling all 4th-7th grade math teachers: we need you for a virtual co-design workshop this Wednesday 11/19 from 4-6 pm ET. We're helping our Sandbox partners OKO Labs co-design the next phase of their math edtech product. Interested? Sign up here: bit.ly/49XpZCO
November 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
📣 Calling all 4th-7th grade math teachers: we need you for a virtual co-design workshop this Wednesday 11/19 from 4-6 pm ET. We're helping our Sandbox partners OKO Labs co-design the next phase of their math edtech product. Interested? Sign up here: bit.ly/49XpZCO
We're excited to share the Powerful Learning from Emerging Technology framework by our friends at Digital Promise. The GIANT Remix, a project developed by The GIANT Room through a partnership with the @cooneycenter.bsky.social is featured in the report. Learn more: bit.ly/4oAQQcj
November 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
We're excited to share the Powerful Learning from Emerging Technology framework by our friends at Digital Promise. The GIANT Remix, a project developed by The GIANT Room through a partnership with the @cooneycenter.bsky.social is featured in the report. Learn more: bit.ly/4oAQQcj
For today's #throwbackthursday, we're spotlighting the Cooney Center's 2016 Report "Opportunity for all? Technology and learning in lower-income families." Read the full report: bit.ly/4qjMbg6. When it comes to #digitalequity for families, what's changed/same in 9 years?
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
For today's #throwbackthursday, we're spotlighting the Cooney Center's 2016 Report "Opportunity for all? Technology and learning in lower-income families." Read the full report: bit.ly/4qjMbg6. When it comes to #digitalequity for families, what's changed/same in 9 years?
Are you an educator or caregiver helping youth navigate the complicated online world? We're excited to share these Pinterest boards with resources we helped curate alongside our #inspiredinternetpledge collaborators: bit.ly/4nxOR7d
November 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Are you an educator or caregiver helping youth navigate the complicated online world? We're excited to share these Pinterest boards with resources we helped curate alongside our #inspiredinternetpledge collaborators: bit.ly/4nxOR7d
Do you work with ELL students? Check out this great webinar presented by our friends at @newamerica.org and The Campaign for Grade Level Reading:
✳️ How #edtech can be used to support English Language Learners
✳️ Tomorrow 10/11 at 3:00 ET
✳️ Register here: bit.ly/4qPfZBC
✳️ How #edtech can be used to support English Language Learners
✳️ Tomorrow 10/11 at 3:00 ET
✳️ Register here: bit.ly/4qPfZBC
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Do you work with ELL students? Check out this great webinar presented by our friends at @newamerica.org and The Campaign for Grade Level Reading:
✳️ How #edtech can be used to support English Language Learners
✳️ Tomorrow 10/11 at 3:00 ET
✳️ Register here: bit.ly/4qPfZBC
✳️ How #edtech can be used to support English Language Learners
✳️ Tomorrow 10/11 at 3:00 ET
✳️ Register here: bit.ly/4qPfZBC
"We are not the anxious generation." On the blog, youth online safety advocate Maximilian Milovidov argues that youth perspective is missing from adults' conversations about the impact of the internet on kids' mental health. joanganzcooneycenter.org/2025/11/06/w...
November 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
"We are not the anxious generation." On the blog, youth online safety advocate Maximilian Milovidov argues that youth perspective is missing from adults' conversations about the impact of the internet on kids' mental health. joanganzcooneycenter.org/2025/11/06/w...
"What Does AI Owe Children?" That's the big question tackled by Joan Ganz Cooney Center Executive Director Michael Preston and industry leaders in the iRAISE Alliance at the @parispeaceforum.bsky.social last week. Watch the full session here: bit.ly/438vpH8 #beneficialAIforchildren
November 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
"What Does AI Owe Children?" That's the big question tackled by Joan Ganz Cooney Center Executive Director Michael Preston and industry leaders in the iRAISE Alliance at the @parispeaceforum.bsky.social last week. Watch the full session here: bit.ly/438vpH8 #beneficialAIforchildren
Check out the video replay of our October event "Growing Readers in a World of Screens and AI," co-hosted by @newamerica.org and The Campaign for Grade Level Reading. 📺 : www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oEi...
Thanks for watching! 📺
Thanks for watching! 📺
Growing Readers in a World of Screens and AI
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November 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Check out the video replay of our October event "Growing Readers in a World of Screens and AI," co-hosted by @newamerica.org and The Campaign for Grade Level Reading. 📺 : www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oEi...
Thanks for watching! 📺
Thanks for watching! 📺
Happy (one day belated) Birthday to Lloyd Morrisett: the co-founder of Sesame Street and Children’s Television Workshop, and a founding board member of both Sesame Workshop and the Joan Ganz Cooney Center. Learn more about Lloyd and his legacy: joanganzcooneycenter.org/2023/04/25/r...
November 4, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Happy (one day belated) Birthday to Lloyd Morrisett: the co-founder of Sesame Street and Children’s Television Workshop, and a founding board member of both Sesame Workshop and the Joan Ganz Cooney Center. Learn more about Lloyd and his legacy: joanganzcooneycenter.org/2023/04/25/r...
Join Cooney Center Senior Fellow Amanda Lenhart at the @FOSI 2025 Conference in D.C. on 11/10. Amanda will be moderating a discussion about how teenagers use generative AI. Register here: joanganzcooneycenter.org/event/resear... #genAI #digitalwellbeing
October 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Join Cooney Center Senior Fellow Amanda Lenhart at the @FOSI 2025 Conference in D.C. on 11/10. Amanda will be moderating a discussion about how teenagers use generative AI. Register here: joanganzcooneycenter.org/event/resear... #genAI #digitalwellbeing
Throwback Thursday! We're revisiting our 2011 report "The New Coviewing: Designing for Learning through Joint Media Engagement." If you're a kids' media and tech creator hoping to design for kids and caregivers engaging together, read the full report here: bit.ly/4p97Ya2
October 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Throwback Thursday! We're revisiting our 2011 report "The New Coviewing: Designing for Learning through Joint Media Engagement." If you're a kids' media and tech creator hoping to design for kids and caregivers engaging together, read the full report here: bit.ly/4p97Ya2
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"Innovation is not optional." — Angelica DaSilva, @cooneycenter.bsky.social
Today, we're discussing with leaders in media and #EdTech how we can help kids thrive as readers in an age of #AI and endless screens.
Join our conversation on the future of #literacy.
➡️ www.newamerica.org/conference/g...
Today, we're discussing with leaders in media and #EdTech how we can help kids thrive as readers in an age of #AI and endless screens.
Join our conversation on the future of #literacy.
➡️ www.newamerica.org/conference/g...
October 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
"Innovation is not optional." — Angelica DaSilva, @cooneycenter.bsky.social
Today, we're discussing with leaders in media and #EdTech how we can help kids thrive as readers in an age of #AI and endless screens.
Join our conversation on the future of #literacy.
➡️ www.newamerica.org/conference/g...
Today, we're discussing with leaders in media and #EdTech how we can help kids thrive as readers in an age of #AI and endless screens.
Join our conversation on the future of #literacy.
➡️ www.newamerica.org/conference/g...
We're feeling inspired after our "Growing Readers in a World of Screens and AI" event co-hosted with @newamerica.org and The Campaign for Grade Level Reading. Multidisciplinary experts came together in person and online to reflect on the 10th anniversary of "Tap, Click, Read." Thanks to attendees!
October 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
We're feeling inspired after our "Growing Readers in a World of Screens and AI" event co-hosted with @newamerica.org and The Campaign for Grade Level Reading. Multidisciplinary experts came together in person and online to reflect on the 10th anniversary of "Tap, Click, Read." Thanks to attendees!
How would kids design an AI writing companion to help them learn to write more effectively? Lirvana Labs, a partner in our Sandbox for Literacy Innovations, recently participated in co-design sessions with kids to find out. Read more on the blog: joanganzcooneycenter.org/2025/10/24/e...
October 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
How would kids design an AI writing companion to help them learn to write more effectively? Lirvana Labs, a partner in our Sandbox for Literacy Innovations, recently participated in co-design sessions with kids to find out. Read more on the blog: joanganzcooneycenter.org/2025/10/24/e...
⏰ "Growing Readers in a World of Screens and AI": TODAY 2:30-5:30 ET ⏰
Join us in person in DC or virtually on the livestream for this event presented by @cooneycenter.bsky.social @newamerica.org and The Campaign for Grade Level Reading. Still time to register: events.newamerica.org/growingreade...
Join us in person in DC or virtually on the livestream for this event presented by @cooneycenter.bsky.social @newamerica.org and The Campaign for Grade Level Reading. Still time to register: events.newamerica.org/growingreade...
October 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
⏰ "Growing Readers in a World of Screens and AI": TODAY 2:30-5:30 ET ⏰
Join us in person in DC or virtually on the livestream for this event presented by @cooneycenter.bsky.social @newamerica.org and The Campaign for Grade Level Reading. Still time to register: events.newamerica.org/growingreade...
Join us in person in DC or virtually on the livestream for this event presented by @cooneycenter.bsky.social @newamerica.org and The Campaign for Grade Level Reading. Still time to register: events.newamerica.org/growingreade...
In honor of October being #NationalBookMonth 📚 , the reading enthusiasts at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center wanted to share some of our favorite books to read with kids! (And we would like everyone to know that it was nearly impossible for each us to pick only one book.)
October 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
In honor of October being #NationalBookMonth 📚 , the reading enthusiasts at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center wanted to share some of our favorite books to read with kids! (And we would like everyone to know that it was nearly impossible for each us to pick only one book.)
⏰ Six days away from the "Growing Readers in a World of Screens and AI" event that we're hosting with @newamerica.org and The Campaign for Grade Level Reading
📅 Monday 10/27, 2:30-5:30 pm ET
📍 Hybrid: Online and in person at New America (Washington, DC)
Register here (free!): bit.ly/4pTkQ4u
📅 Monday 10/27, 2:30-5:30 pm ET
📍 Hybrid: Online and in person at New America (Washington, DC)
Register here (free!): bit.ly/4pTkQ4u
October 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
⏰ Six days away from the "Growing Readers in a World of Screens and AI" event that we're hosting with @newamerica.org and The Campaign for Grade Level Reading
📅 Monday 10/27, 2:30-5:30 pm ET
📍 Hybrid: Online and in person at New America (Washington, DC)
Register here (free!): bit.ly/4pTkQ4u
📅 Monday 10/27, 2:30-5:30 pm ET
📍 Hybrid: Online and in person at New America (Washington, DC)
Register here (free!): bit.ly/4pTkQ4u
We'd love to see #edtechweek attendees at today's 3:00 pm panel "Something Old, Something New: Closing the Early Learning Gap in an Algorithmic Age." The @cooneycenter's Medha Tare will be in conversation with Michael Levine, Sara DeWitt, Christopher Cerf and Christie Pang.
October 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
We'd love to see #edtechweek attendees at today's 3:00 pm panel "Something Old, Something New: Closing the Early Learning Gap in an Algorithmic Age." The @cooneycenter's Medha Tare will be in conversation with Michael Levine, Sara DeWitt, Christopher Cerf and Christie Pang.
Our friends at @youngfutures.bsky.social have launched a national call for ideas to help young people navigate AI safely, critically, and with agency. If you're working with youth + AI, apply by 10/24: www.youngfutures.org/funding-chal...
October 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Our friends at @youngfutures.bsky.social have launched a national call for ideas to help young people navigate AI safely, critically, and with agency. If you're working with youth + AI, apply by 10/24: www.youngfutures.org/funding-chal...
We loved having members of the Piknik team (creators of Sago Mini) visit our office! They were in town for co-design sessions with kids as part of our Sandbox for Literacy Innovations initiative. Learn more about the Sandbox here: bit.ly/46XaObp
October 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
We loved having members of the Piknik team (creators of Sago Mini) visit our office! They were in town for co-design sessions with kids as part of our Sandbox for Literacy Innovations initiative. Learn more about the Sandbox here: bit.ly/46XaObp
We were delighted to partner with @youngfutures.bsky.social and @nianticspatial.bsky.social on the Here Comes the Fun Funding Challenge - and even more thrilled to announce the new YF Innovators cohort! www.youngfutures.org/innovators/
YF Innovators - Young Futures
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October 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
We were delighted to partner with @youngfutures.bsky.social and @nianticspatial.bsky.social on the Here Comes the Fun Funding Challenge - and even more thrilled to announce the new YF Innovators cohort! www.youngfutures.org/innovators/