Dr. Marina Umaschi Bers is the co-creator of the widely-popular
programming language, ScratchJr. She is a professor in the
Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development and
adjunct professor in the Computer Science Department at Tufts
University. She also heads the Developmental Technologies (DevTech)
Research group where she studies innovative ways to promote
positive childhood development through new learning technologies.
Additionally, she created KIBO, a robotics platform for children 4
to 7 which allows young learners to learn programming and
engineering skills without screens or keyboards. Dr. Bers is also
the director of the graduate Early Childhood Technology certificate
program at Tufts University. More her approach that conceives
coding as a literacy of the 21st century, can be found in her book
Coding as a Playground- Programming and Computational Thinking in
the Early Childhood Classroom.
Dr. Amanda Sullivan is a post doctoral associate in the
Developmental Technologies (DevTech) research group and associate
director of the graduate Early Childhood Technology certificate
program at Tufts University. Her research focuses on gender issues
and technology.
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