The Joan Ganz Cooney Center

Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop
Founded 2007
Legal status 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization[1]
Headquarters New York City[1]
Executive Director
 Michael H. Levine, Ph.D H.
Mission To advance children's literacy skills and foster innovation in children's learning through digital media.[1]
Website www.joanganzcooneycenter.org

The Joan Ganz Cooney Center (informally, the Cooney Center) is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan research and innovation group founded by Sesame Workshop in order to advance children’s literacy skills and foster innovation in children’s learning through digital media.[2]

Background

The Joan Ganz Cooney Center was founded in 2007[3] to study the role of digital technologies in promoting childhood literacy particularly among elementary school age children. According to the organization's mission statement, the Cooney Center exists "to advance children’s literacy skills and foster innovation in children’s learning through digital media."[2][4]

Activities

The Cooney Center focuses on research, new technologies, and catalyzing policy change. Its activities comprise three primary themes:

The Cooney Center also hosts periodic events aimed at catalyzing policy and industry change. The 2009 Leadership Forum: Breakthrough Learning in a Digital Age,[15] hosted at the Googleplex, attracted more than 200 thought leaders from the research, policy, education, and industries. In 2011, the Cooney Center hosted its annual leadership forum focusing on scaling up effective models that support children's learning with an emphasis on harnessing the largely untapped potential of digital media, especially for struggling learners. Learning From Hollywood: Can Entertainment Media Ignite a Digital Revolution? brought together leaders from the creative media industries, education, research, policy, and philanthropy. Recent research publications on the potential of video games and mobile platforms for children's learning have received wide attention in the media and among national and state policymakers.[16]

Reports

The Cooney Center disseminates research that informs national debates, with the intention of "stimulating investment in effective reforms."[17] It does so through its publications on timely topics, including the children’s fast evolving, interactive media landscape, mobile learning, and the debates over media multitasking. The Cooney Center’s inaugural report was The Power of Pow! Wham!: Children, Digital Media and Our Nation's Future by Rima Shore, Ph.D.

In 2014, the Cooney Center published Learning at Home: Families' Educational Media Use in America. For this national survey, data was collected from 1,577 parents on the amount of media used in their home and its educational value.[12] "What is more, the study, by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center," reported the New York Times, "shows that as children spend more time with screens as they get older, they spend less time doing educational activities, with 8- to 10-year-olds spending about half the time with educational content that 2- to 4-year-olds do."

Significant reports

Initiatives

The Cooney Center focuses on four key strategies: action research, innovation and model development, partnership building and dissemination. These strategies reflect the Center's field-building mission, which calls for the creation of new knowledge, the creative application of that knowledge in practice, and the engagement of key decision-makers in making investments to drive innovation and scale up what works.

National STEM Video Game Competition

The Cooney Center, in collaboration with E-Line Media, hosts the National STEM Video Game Challenge as part of the "Educate to Innovate" campaign, which President Barack Obama launched in November 2009 to “harness the excitement and educational potential of video games to advance STEM learning (science, technology, engineering, and math)."[46]

Cooney Center Fellows Program

Cooney Center Fellows assist with high priority research, program development and dissemination activities that examine the potential and challenges associated with digital media applications in promoting children's learning and healthy development. In addition, the Center has established a research fund to help support priority areas.

Digital Age Teacher Preparation Council

The Cooney Center, in collaboration with the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute, convened a Digital Age Teacher Preparation Council, co-chaired by Linda Darling-Hammond of Stanford University and Michael Levine. The council's sixteen members from academia, industry, and policy assessed current practices in early education and elementary school teaching and designed a professional development "blueprint" to advance the use of effective digital media in teaching and learning, with a special emphasis on instruction for underserved students. The final report was issued on November 1, 2011.[47]

People at the Cooney Center

Founders

Key staff

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Form 990: Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax". Joan Ganz Cooney Center for Educational Media and Research Inc. Guidestar. June 30, 2014.
  2. 1 2 Jensen, Elizabeth (6 December 2007). "Institute Named for 'Sesame' Creator". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  3. ↑ "The Joan Ganz Cooney Center for Educational Media and Research Inc." Division of Corporations. Delaware Department of State. Accessed on May 20, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Cooney Center: Our Mission".
  5. ↑ Pioneering Literacy in the Digital Wild West: Empowering Parents and Educators.
  6. ↑ Lee, Lai-Chung; Whei-Jane Wei (March 2013). "Child-Computer Interaction Design and Its Effectiveness". Research & Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning. 8 (1): 15. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
  7. ↑ Diaz, Shelley (11 July 2013). "Learning Together: New Council to Study Latino Families' Digital Media Use". The School Library Journal. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
  8. ↑ Thai, Ann My (2009). Game Changer: Investing in Digital Play to Advance Learning and Health. New York: The Joan Ganz Cooney Center.
  9. ↑ Gallagher, Michael. "STEM in Action: Inspiring the Science and Engineering Workforce of Tomorrow" (PDF). Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  10. ↑ Wan, Tony (11 February 2014). "Helping Game Developers Tackle the Toughest Game". EdSurge. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  11. ↑ Learning at Home: Families' Educational Media Use in America (PDF). 2014-01-24.
  12. 1 2 "Screen Time Study Finds Education Dropoff".
  13. ↑ Toppo, Greg (24 January 2014). "First-of-its-kind survey finds kids spend 8x as much time with educational TV as computers". USA Today. Retrieved 28 February 2014.
  14. ↑ King, Ceco;oa (24 January 2014). "2- to 4-year-olds are most frequent users of educational media, study finds". The Washington Post. Retrieved 28 February 2014.
  15. ↑ "Breakthrough Learning in the Digital Age".
  16. ↑ Rosenworcel, Jessica. "Remarks of Jessica Rosenworcel to the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop". FCC Website. FCC. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
  17. ↑ "Cooney Center Reports".
  18. ↑ "Joan Ganz Cooney Center - Opportunity for All? Technology and Learning in Lower-Income Families". www.joanganzcooneycenter.org. Retrieved 2016-08-09.
  19. ↑ "Joan Ganz Cooney Center - Getting a Read on the App Stores : A Market Scan and Analysis of Children's Literacy Apps". www.joanganzcooneycenter.org. Retrieved 2016-08-09.
  20. ↑ "Joan Ganz Cooney Center - Diverse Families and Media: Using Research to Inspire Design". www.joanganzcooneycenter.org. Retrieved 2016-08-09.
  21. ↑ "Joan Ganz Cooney Center - Tap, Click, Read: Growing Readers in a World of Screens". www.joanganzcooneycenter.org. Retrieved 2016-08-09.
  22. ↑ "Joan Ganz Cooney Center - Apps en familia: Guía para usar apps con tus hijos". www.joanganzcooneycenter.org. Retrieved 2016-08-09.
  23. ↑ "Joan Ganz Cooney Center - Aprendiendo en Casa: Media as a Learning Tool among Hispanic-Latino Families". www.joanganzcooneycenter.org. Retrieved 2016-08-09.
  24. ↑ "Joan Ganz Cooney Center - Digital Media and Latino Families: New Channels for Learning, Parenting, and Organizing". www.joanganzcooneycenter.org. Retrieved 2016-08-09.
  25. ↑ "Joan Ganz Cooney Center - Connecting to Learn: Promoting Digital Equity for America's Hispanic Families". www.joanganzcooneycenter.org. Retrieved 2016-08-09.
  26. ↑ "Joan Ganz Cooney Center - Family Time with Apps: A Guide to Using Apps with Your Kids". www.joanganzcooneycenter.org. Retrieved 2016-08-09.
  27. ↑ "Joan Ganz Cooney Center - Level Up Learning: A National Survey on Teaching with Digital Games". www.joanganzcooneycenter.org. Retrieved 2016-08-09.
  28. ↑ "Joan Ganz Cooney Center - The MindShift Guide to Games and Learning". www.joanganzcooneycenter.org. Retrieved 2016-08-09.
  29. ↑ ("Learning at Home: Families' Educational Media Use in America".)
  30. ↑ "Games for a Digital Age: K-12 Market Map and Investment Analysis".
  31. ↑ "Pioneering Literacy in the Digital Wild West: Empowering Parents and Educators".
  32. ↑ "Kids Online: A new research agenda for understanding social networking forums".
  33. ↑ "What in the World Happened to Carmen Sandiego? The Edutainment Era: Debunking Myths and Sharing Lessons Learned".
  34. ↑ "National Survey and Video Case Studies: Teacher Attitudes about Digital Games in the Classroom".
  35. ↑ "iLearn II: An Analysis of the Education Category on Apple's App Store".
  36. ↑ "The New Coviewing: Designing for Learning through Joint Media Engagement".
  37. ↑ "Take a Giant Step: A Blueprint for Teaching Young Children in a Digital Age".
  38. ↑ "Families Matter: Designing Media for a Digital Age".
  39. ↑ "Always Connected: The new digital media habits of young children".
  40. ↑ "Learning: Is there an app for that?".
  41. ↑ "Can Video Games Promote Intergenerational Play & Literacy Learning?".
  42. ↑ "iLearn: A Content Analysis of the iTunes App Store's Education Section".
  43. ↑ "Game Changer: Investing in Digital Play to Advance Children's Learning and Health".
  44. ↑ "Pockets of Potential: Using Mobile Technologies to Promote Children's Learning".
  45. ↑ "Getting Over the Slump: Innovation Strategies to Promote Children's Learning".
  46. ↑ "Educate to Innovate".
  47. ↑ Barron, Brigid (1 November 2011). Take a Giant Step: The Blueprint for Teaching Young Children in a Digital Age. New York, NY: The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop and Stanford University.
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