6/22/2023 0 Comments Fake Plus One by Arlo Arrow![]() ![]() Nathan: This week we talk with Yasmin Kafai from the University of Pennsylvania. She helped develop Scratch programming language, called the YouTube of interactive media, where millions of kids create and share their programs and Stitching the Loop, a unit using electronic textiles to introduce computing to high school students as part of Exploring Computer Science curriculum. She is author of numerous books, among them Connected Play, Connected Code, and Connected Gaming and co-edited volumes that focus on gaming and gender such as Diversifying Barbie and Mortal Kombat and promote constructionist approaches such as Designing Constructionist Futures with Nathan Holbert and Matthew Berland. Her research empowers students to use computer programming to design games, tell interactive stories, and sew electronic textiles with the goal to support creative expression, build social connections, and broaden participation in computing. Kafai is the Lori and Michael Milken President's Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. ![]()
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