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What Can Technologists Learn from Sesame Street? With Dr. Rosemarie Truglio

What Can Technologists Learn from Sesame Street? With Dr. Rosemarie Truglio

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On this episode of Your Undivided Attention, Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin speak with Dr. Rosemarie Truglio, the Senior Vice President of Curriculum and Content for the Sesame Workshop, the non-profit behind Sesame Street. What happens when app creators c

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What happens when creators consider what lifelong human
development looks like in terms of the tools we make? And what
philosophies from Sesame Street can inform how to steward
the power of AI and social media to influence minds in
thoughtful, humane directions?

When the first episode of Sesame Street aired on PBS in
1969, it was unlike anything that had been on television before -
a collaboration between educators, child psychologists, comedy
writers and puppeteers - all working together to do something
that had never been done before: create educational content for
children on television.

Fast-forward to the present: could we switch gears to reprogram
today’s digital tools to humanely educate the next
generation?

That’s the question Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin explore with
Dr. Rosemarie Truglio, the Senior Vice President of Curriculum
and Content for the Sesame Workshop, the non-profit behind
Sesame Street.

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