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Youth co-design:

Think HumanTV has run multiple iterations of user testing and piloting, as well as efficacy studies, with students at K12 schools as well as with families at home. Pilots were used to solicit student input, which led to updates to the content library and various user experience improvements.

ThinkHumanTV

Developed by cognitive scientists at Columbia University, ThinkHumanTV is an adaptive learning engine that integrates evidence-based emotional literacy training with films and TV shows. ThinkHumanTV is available for students in PreK-3rd grade via the Humie web and mobile app, which features a variety of high quality, popular kids' shows like ‘Bluey' and ‘The Octonauts’. It is also available for learners in grades 4-12 using a browser extension, which integrates with major streaming sites.

Product Information

Student mental health focus areas: Develop life and character-building skills, Promote Social and School Connectedness
Product category: Curriculum/lessons, Self-guided activities
Tiers of intervention: Tier 1
Grade levels: Pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, 8th grade, 9th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade
End user(s): Clinical Team, Parents, Students, Teachers
District experience: 1,000-5,000 students
Free version available?: Free version is available nationwide.
Use of AI: Think HumanTV has taken a purposeful approach to AI. To prioritize child safety, they use exclusively safe, algorithmic software when interfacing with learners. Given the platform’s fundamentally human focus -- emotion learning -- they rely exclusively on human analysis and review in their content preparation process. They leverage generative AI capabilities to help streamline rote admin tasks like inputing characters that appear in a given show.

Impact

Intended outcomes: '- Improvements in emotion knowledge such as emotion vocabulary - Improvements in self awareness skills such as emotional awareness - Improvements is social awareness skills such as perspective-taking and empathy - Improvements in self management skills, such as regulation strategy selection - For older learners (Grades 6-12), improvement in scientific knowledge of emotions, such as emotion valence and appraisal
Demonstrated outcomes: Randomized control trial of the Humie app demonstrated that kids aged 4-5 (N=62) improved emotional vocabulary & emotion regulation. High School pilots: 9 schools including Fordham HS for the Arts (NYC) Participants: 10+ educators, over 100 students in grades 9-12 Outcomes: - Over 98% reported using TV and films for emotion learning was enjoyable - Over 90% reported improved understanding of emotions - Nearly 75% reported increased confidence managing emotions.

Privacy & Safety

Privacy & security: COPPA, FERPA, CIPA
Crisis protocols: ThinkHumanTV has the capacity to provide information regarding organization-specific mental health and other crisis-prevention services to learners within the application.

Data provided to school/district

When ThinkHumanTV solutions are used by individual students, the company is able to provide metrics showing students' performance on various aspects of emotion knowledge and skills, including identifying emotion causes, identifying emotion valence, emotion regulation strategies like reappraisal and others.

Accessibility

Web accessibility: ThinkHumanTV seeks to adhere to the WCAG 2.1 accessibility standard.
Language accessibility: At present ThinkHumanTV training is in English only.

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All information was provided by the company in May 2026. We encourage you to ask for up-to-date information, as well as any additional information needed, when considering products.