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From Mass. Ave. to ‘Sesame Street’
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1498" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/09/harvards-hand-in-helping-to-launch-sesame-street-which-celebrates-50-years/" target="_blank"><strong>From Mass. Ave. to ‘Sesame Street’ - Harvard</strong></a></p><p></p><p>“Sesame Street,” the PBS show that revolutionized educational TV programming for children, turns 50 this year. Big Bird, Elmo, Kermit, Grover, and other beloved furry creatures taught generations of preschoolers that learning about numbers, letters, shapes, colors, and getting ready to read could be fun. But who taught the teachers? Harvard psychologist Gerald Lesser of the Harvard Graduate School of Education was one. From 1968 through 1996, Lesser chaired the board of advisers of the Children’s Television Workshop, which created “Sesame Street.” He developed the curriculum to ensure that the content would be age-appropriate, pedagogically sound, and capable of inducing a smile. </p><p></p><p>The partnership between Harvard and the show has continued over the decades. Joe Blatt, faculty director of the Master’s Program in <a href="https://www.gse.harvard.edu/masters/tie" target="_blank">Technology, Innovation and Education</a>, leads the many collaborations between Harvard and the children’s show. The Gazette recently sat down with Blatt to talk about the show, Lesser, and, of course, his favorite Muppets.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1498, member: 1"] [URL='https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/09/harvards-hand-in-helping-to-launch-sesame-street-which-celebrates-50-years/'][B]From Mass. Ave. to ‘Sesame Street’ - Harvard[/B][/URL] “Sesame Street,” the PBS show that revolutionized educational TV programming for children, turns 50 this year. Big Bird, Elmo, Kermit, Grover, and other beloved furry creatures taught generations of preschoolers that learning about numbers, letters, shapes, colors, and getting ready to read could be fun. But who taught the teachers? Harvard psychologist Gerald Lesser of the Harvard Graduate School of Education was one. From 1968 through 1996, Lesser chaired the board of advisers of the Children’s Television Workshop, which created “Sesame Street.” He developed the curriculum to ensure that the content would be age-appropriate, pedagogically sound, and capable of inducing a smile. The partnership between Harvard and the show has continued over the decades. Joe Blatt, faculty director of the Master’s Program in [URL='https://www.gse.harvard.edu/masters/tie']Technology, Innovation and Education[/URL], leads the many collaborations between Harvard and the children’s show. The Gazette recently sat down with Blatt to talk about the show, Lesser, and, of course, his favorite Muppets. [/QUOTE]
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