I recently sat down with Carol-Lynn Parente, Executive Producer of the 130 Emmy Award winning preschool show (no, I’m not jealous…really) Sesame Street for an informative talk about their new content and how parents are able to extend that learning with their children.
Sesame Street is quite busy these days introducing their new STEM curriculum for this season. As you know, STEM addresses science, technology, engineering & math. Even though STEM is all around our children in the real world, it’s quite a large endeavor to deliver this type of content to a preschool audience in an appropriate fashion!
One of the reasons that makes it so challenging is that while comedy is often utilized as a means of grabbing the childrens’ attention, it’s a difficult balancing act when you’re taking on such heavy subject matter like STEM within that same comedic segment. But in the end, “Penguins and Chickens are always funny” so you’ve gotta find a way.
[See Angela’s interview with Carol-Lynn Parente on PBS.org]
Sesame Street brings back so many happy memories as a kid! Like many in my generation I grew up with Sesame Street!! Great interview Angela! I love the comment about penguins and chickens lol 🙂 Blue’s Clues is to my daughter what Sesame Street was to me so thank YOU for creating such a great show!
Oh and look I what I came across today!!!
http://bit.ly/peu5Fg Go rainbows 🙂
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