Session 14 – Part 2: Yasmin B. Kafai & Luis Morales-Navarro (USA)

Yasmin B. Kafai is Lori and Michael Milken President’s Distinguished Professor at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, with a courtesy appointment in Computer and Information Science. She is a learning designer and researcher of online tools, projects, and communities to promote coding, criticality, and creativity. With colleagues at MIT, she developed the widely popular programming language Scratch, now with over 100 million users, and researched computational participation in clubs, classrooms, and communities. She is currently researching the use of algorithm auditing with high school youth and teachers. As part of the nationwide Exploring Computer Science curriculum, she has investigated electronic textiles to introduce computing, engineering, and machine learning to high school students and teachers. She has written several books, among them “Connected Code: Why Children Need to Learn Programming,” “Connected Gaming: What Making Videogames Can Teach Us About Learning and Literacy,” and recently edited with Nathan Holbert and Matthew Berland “Designing Constructionist Futures: The Art, Theory, and Practice of Learning Designs” — all published by MIT Press. Kafai earned a doctorate in education from Harvard University while working at the MIT Media Lab. She is an elected Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and the International Society for the Learning Sciences.