Two New Publications from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop

The Power of Pow! Wham!: Children, Digital Media & Our Nation's Future, examines crucial new directions for children’s learning in a digital age. It features interviews with 60 experts on literacy, educational media, children and family policy, and industry innovations, and offers an overview of the critical issues on the frontiers of educational media research. Dr. Rima Shore, Adelaide Weismann Chair in Educational Leadership at Bank Street College of Education, included key challenges, recommendations, and a framework for national action. As the report observes: "We are the Jetsons. Our children are growing up in a world where their toys obey them and their parents converse with the family car... [but] when it comes to understanding the impact of digital media and harnessing their potential so that they can benefit all children, we are more often like the Flintstones." The full report and executive summary are available below for download.

Getting Over the Slump: Innovation Strategies to Promote Children's Learning, by noted literacy and video games expert James Paul Gee, is a white paper examining how conventional and "new" literacies can converge with emerging media to produce a powerful new learning equation that can stimulate both our early education system and our children's abilities to innovate and create. An advance copy is available for download below. The final report will be ready in late June 2008. Look for it at www.joanganzcooneycenter.org.

The Cooney Center hopes these resources will be valuable tools for leaders who wish to better understand the potential of harnessing digital media to address children's most pressing learning and development issues. Hard copies of the report are also available upon request. Please visit www.joanganzcooneycenter.org for more information about the Cooney Center’s research and action initiatives.
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