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MUMBAI: Sesame Workshop, the non-profit organization
behind Sesame Street, has released Ms. Cooney's, the
founder of Sesame Street, experiment into the digital
age with the The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop.
The
Center has launched an interactive website, www.joanganzcooneycenter.org,
featuring applications that support the Center's goals.
The site will expand in the spring to include podcasts,
blogs and other new media features and an online community
for policy and industry leaders, researchers and practitioners.
Focusing
on the needs of elementary age children, The Joan Ganz
Cooney Center will conduct and support research, create
new media properties, and stimulate a national dialogue
on how interactive technologies can be utilized to help
accelerate children's learning. Based at Sesame Workshop,
the Center will work closely with leading universities
and industry partners that are engaged in cutting edge
media and learning innovations.
New
media platforms such as the web, cell phones and video
games will be examined to better understand their role
in children's literacy development both in school and
out. The Center will also champion best practices and
develop policy agendas to stimulate investment in promising
and proven new media technologies for children. Two
Cooney Fellows have been appointed, who will assist
with carrying out the Center's objectives.
Michael
H. Levine, Ph.D., an early childhood education research
and policy expert has been named executive director
of the Center. Prior to joining the Center, Michael
Levine served as VP new media and executive director,
Education for Asia Society, overseeing the global nonprofit's
interactive media and educational initiatives.
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