Public Libraries

After receiving requests from parents, Osmo has created an educational game for children age 3-5 that seamlessly weaves digital and physical play.

While traditional storytime isn’t going away, public libraries are exploring new strategies to serve toddlers and preschoolers, from STEM for babies and Touchpoints for Libraries, to new guidance on screen time.

Getting more families into libraries is one goal of the FamLAB Project, which has tapped a cross-sector cohort to expand out-of-school learning opportunities for young children and their families.

Elizabeth Atack and Klem-Mari Cajigas reworked their Bringing Books to Life! family literacy workshops for incarcerated teen dads, who recorded themselves reading books for their children.

Children's Book Week turns 100, and the literacy initiative is providing free resources to help everyone mark the occasion.

Chelsea Clinton spoke to the crowd and read books to neighborhood kids after cutting the ribbon to officially open the space, which is a project of the Laundry Literacy Coalition.

Visual literacy demands increasingly sophisticated tools to expand kids' critical skills.

Educating kids on how lighting, camera movement, sound, body language, and other film strategies convey meaning.

Focus on the individuals rather than the devices, and more strategies to address the causes of bad behavior online.