Karen Brennan

I am an Assistant Professor at Harvard University in the Graduate School of Education. I completed my PhD at the MIT Media Lab in October 2012.
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Recent Publications
  • Brennan, K. (2012). ScratchEd: Developing support for educators as designers. In E. Reilly and I. Literat (Eds.), Designing with teachers: Participatory professional development in education.
  • Brennan, K., & Resnick, M. (2012). New frameworks for studying and assessing the development of computational thinking. Paper presented at annual American Educational Research Association meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
  • Brennan, K. (2011). Mind the gap: Differences between the aspirational and the actual in an online community of learners. CSCL'11 conference proceedings.
  • Brennan, K., Valverde, A., Prempeh, J., Roque, R., & Chung, M. (2011). More than code: The significance of social interactions in young people's development as interactive media creators. ED-MEDIA conference proceedings.
    Received outstanding paper award.
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