Mitchel Resnick

I direct the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the Media Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
I develop new technologies to engage people (particularly children) in creative learning experiences.
I serve as Head of the Media Arts and Sciences academic program and Director of the Okawa Center.
My research projects include:

Scratch: Democratizing Digital Expression
With our Scratch software, kids can create their own interactive stories, games, and animations - and share their creations online. Kids learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively, while learning important computational ideas. Scratch has been called "the YouTube of interactive media."

Programmable Bricks: Learning through Designing
With our Programmable Bricks, children can build and program their own robots, kinetic sculptures, and other interactive inventions - and learn science and engineering concepts in the process. Our Programmable Bricks served as inspiration for the LEGO MindStorms, PicoCricket, and LEGO WeDo robotics kits.

Computer Clubhouse: Bridging the Digital Divide
I co-founded the Computer Clubhouse project, an international network of 100 after-school centers where youth from low-income communities learn to express themselves creatively with new technologies.

For an overview of my research, I'd suggest the following papers:
Scratch: Programming for All (2009)
Sowing the Seeds for a More Creative Society (2007)
Computer as Paintbrush: Technology, Play, and the Creative Society (2006)
Rethinking Learning in the Digital Age (2002)
The Computer Clubhouse: Technological Fluency in the Inner City (1998)

For more information, see the full list of my publications and my resume.

Each fall, I teach a course called Technologies for Creative Learning

Mitchel Resnick
MIT Media Laboratory
20 Ames Street
Cambridge, MA
617-253-9783
617-253-5275 (fax)
mres at media.mit.edu

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