We’re excited to share that Seesaw is joining the Joan Ganz Cooney Center Sandbox for Literacy Innovations! Seesaw is a suite of multimodal learning and creation tools, digital portfolios, teacher dashboards, and family engagement features. Welcome to the Sandbox, Seesaw! Learn more: bit.ly/4dpsEGr

We're thrilled that our Co-Design with Kids Toolkit has been selected as a finalist for The Anthem Awards for Excellence in Strategy in Product Innovation or Service, Education, Art & Culture! 🎉

Please vote for us! wbby.co/edprnp

We are so excited to announce the official launch of the RITEC Community of Practice. A year of listening to designers, product leads, trust & safety professionals and researchers shaped it. Now it's open.

✨ Register: cooneycenter.org/joinritec
🎮 Read more about the community: bit.ly/4zzuywN

We’re excited to share that Medley Learning is joining the Sandbox for Literacy Innovations! Medley is a browser extension for student devices that automatically adds scaffolds to texts based on each student's English proficiency level. Welcome, Medley! Learn more about their work: bit.ly/4dpsEGr

Bay Area families: join us on Sunday 10/18 from 11-4 pm at SundayStreets: Excelsior for Family Digital Wellness activities to help families build healthy digital habits. Presented by the Cooney Center and @thegiantroom.bsky.social, in partnership with Verizon. bit.ly/3VuI0Dy

We’re excited to share that Kai XR is joining the Joan Ganz Cooney Center Sandbox for Literacy Innovations! Kai XR is an immersive STEM learning platform for elementary and middle-school students. Welcome to the Sandbox, Kai XR! Learn more about their work: bit.ly/4dpsEGr

See you at Meaningful Play on 10/14 for our workshop: “Sharing the Secret Sauce: Translating Research into Practice with Sesame Workshop & The Joan Ganz Cooney Center.” Learn more and register: bit.ly/4AsSG5v @cmuctp.bsky.social

The Cooney Center is headed to EdTech Week- we hope to see you at our panels “Incubating Innovation in Literacy Edtech” on 10/14 and “Empowered or Outsourced: Rethinking Student Agency in the Age of AI” on 10/15! Learn more: bit.ly/eventsJGCC #edtechweek

Boston families: SEE YOU TOMORROW! (Sat 10/10 from 12-2) for a free Family Digital Wellness Day to help families build healthy digital habits. Presented by the Cooney Center, @thegiantroom.bsky.social, and The Digital Wellness Lab in partnership with Verizon. #bostonkids #bostonfamilies

We're thrilled to announce our new partners in the Joan Ganz Cooney Center Sandbox for Literacy Innovations. Welcome Kai XR, Medley Learning, Seesaw, and Toogs! Learn more: bit.ly/4dpsEGr

What do teachers think about edtech? “Screen Wise," a study from the @waltonfamilyfdn.bsky.social and @gallup.com, produced in partnership with the Cooney Center, surveyed U.S. K-12 teachers to find out. 📊 Download the study here: cooneycenter.org/screenwise #edtech #screentime

In “Scaling Practice, Missing the Problem,” Cooney Center Fellow Angelica DaSilva discusses a critical opportunity in literacy edtech: moving beyond a focus on phonics and decodable texts. 📚 Read the full post: bit.ly/4zdTo59 #scienceofreading #literacy #edtech

📚 In honor of October being #NationalBookMonth, the reading enthusiasts at the Cooney Center wanted to share some of our favorite books to read with kids! Read our recent blog about how to inspire a love of reading in kids here: bit.ly/4c6iIB6

We are delighted to share the publication of “Remixing the Future: Co-designing an AI Tool to Support Creativity and Literacy with Teachers and Students.” Read the case study here: cooneycenter.org/remixingthef... @thegiantroom.bsky.social @robinhoodnyc.bsky.social

On Monday, Cooney Center Senior Fellow Amanda Lenhart was a panelist at the “Who Gets to Decide How AI Enters Our Schools” event, part of the NYPL’s “7 Stories Up” series, and presented with @datasociety.bsky.social. 📺 Watch the recording here: bit.ly/4y30cBO

Boston families: join us on Saturday 10/10 from 12-2 for a free Family Digital Wellness Day to help families build healthy digital habits. Presented by the Cooney Center, @thegiantroom.bsky.social, and The Digital Wellness Lab in partnership with Verizon. #bostonkids #bostonfamilies