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We're looking forward to watching Young Futures 6/25 webinar to meet 10 leaders who are: ✨Designing tech that reduces stress (not fuels it) ✨Creating offline spaces for connection ✨Rewriting the rules of digital wellbeing and more! Register here: bit.ly/UPCShowcase

Heading to @g4c next week? We'd love to see you at our "Playing with Well-Being by Design" workshop on Fri 6/27. Hear how Joan Ganz Cooney Center Well-Being by Design Fellows are creating games that promote children’s well-being. Learn more: bit.ly/4mXIwmE #G4C2025

Cooney Center Senior Fellow Amanda Lenhart will discuss the effects of screens on children's development in this fantastic webinar panel presented by the Saul Zaentz Foundation™ Foundation this Friday 6/20. Register here: bit.ly/4kTgwPb

#scienceofreading is so important, but it doesn't capture all the #literacy skills kids need to thrive. Joan Ganz Cooney Center Sandbox for Literacy Innovations Advisory Board member Jeannette Mancilla-Martinez explains why language development is just as critical.

Heading to the Interaction Design for Children Conference next week? Check out the "Innovating Digital Play" panel featuring Executive Director Michael Preston as well as colleagues from LEGO, UNICEF, and @Scratch on 6/26 at 9:00 GMT. bit.ly/4n3BGfx #IDC2025

Heading to the Solutions Summit on 6/29 at #ISTELive25? Join the Cooney Center's Allisyn Levy for the "What is Co-Design in EdTech?" breakout session. The session will feature tips on using co-design to build #edtech products. Learn more and register: bit.ly/444qFSr

Our literacy experts in the Joan Ganz Cooney Center Sandbox for Literacy Innovations recommend that #edtech developers center their products around a logic model that reflects the Science of Literacy, like Scarborough's Reading Rope. Learn more: bit.ly/4l5BPNq

If you know how to get, how to get to Sesame Street, you know where to find our co-design partner: the @westsideynyc! We're delighted that our local Y hosts our #CoDesign sessions with NYC kids. Thanks to the West Side Y for helping us work with your brilliant kids!

Hope to see you at our "Playing with Well-Being by Design" workshop at @g4c on Friday at 11! Learn how some of our Well-Being by Design Fellows are creating games that promote children’s well-being. For more info: bit.ly/4mXIwmE

We were thrilled to host members of the LeapFrog team at our offices! LeapFrog is a partner in our Joan Ganz Cooney Center Sandbox for Literacy Innovations. To learn more about LeapFrog's Sandbox project, read more on the blog: bit.ly/3Tq7vkV #cooneycenter

Come say hi 👋 at the ISTE Solutions Summit this Sunday 6/29! The Cooney Center's Allisyn Levy and co-presenters will lead the "What is Co-Design in EdTech?" breakout session. Learn more and register: bit.ly/444qFSr #ISTELive25

If you missed the Edtech Insiders webinar "Co-Design Secrets" featuring Cooney Center Executive Director Michael Preston and Senior Director of Research Medha Tare discuss using #CoDesign in #edtech, watch the replay here: bit.ly/45uGXq4

Join Cooney Center Senior Fellow Amanda Lenhart on 7/15 in conversation with Michelle De Mooy (@mccourtschool) and S. Craig Watkins (IC² Institute) at their upcoming panel "The Risks and Rewards of an AI-Mediated Childhood." -- Learn more and register: bit.ly/3I7SHoP

Our Sandbox for Literacy Innovations Advisory Board member Susan Neuman talks about some of the unique advantages of literacy edtech. -- Learn more about how the Sandbox is helping companies make better #literacy #edtech for kids on the blog: bit.ly/4l5BPNq

Curious about how teachers and caregivers of young kids can support them with #AI? Check out this podcast from the 2025 ASU + GSV Summit featuring the Cooney Center Executive Director Michael Preston and other #ECE leaders: apple.co/4e9dDHG

We were delighted to speak about the #RITEC Design Toolbox at this year's Interaction Design and Children (IDC) conference Conference. Learn more about using #RITEC to design digital experiences to enhance children’s well-being here: bit.ly/3Ia62Nf #IDC25 📸 via Interaction Design and Children (IDC) conference

When it comes to #literacy education and literacy #edtech, a lot of attention is rightly focused on the moment when kids first learn to read. But as our Sandbox for Literacy Innovations Advisors point out, that's only part of a student's literacy journey.

It's always a great week when we co-design with kids and our Cooney Center Sandbox partners Mrs Wordsmith! Learn more about how we help partners use #codesign to build #edtech for kids: bit.ly/4kAclHH -- 📸 via Brandon Cardet-Hernandez

Join Senior Director of Research Medha Tare at the Children and Screens Digital Media and Developing Minds Conference on 7/15. In the "Child Centered Design" panel, she'll be in conversation with other experts about how to make tech built for kids. Register: bit.ly/3I7SHoP

How can #edtech be used to level kids' reading experiences, and help them build important background knowledge at the same time? Our Sandbox for Literacy Innovations Advisor Rachel Nugent explains. -- #literacyinnovations #cooneycenter