Mitchel Resnick
Mitchel Resnick
Mitchel Resnickis LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research, Director of the Okawa Center, and Director of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab. Resnick currently serves as the head of the Media Arts and Sciences academic program, the academic program that grants master's degrees and Ph.Ds at the MIT Media Lab. Resnick's research group has developed a variety of educational tools that engage people in new types of design activities and learning experiences, including the "programmable bricks" that...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
CountryUnited States of America
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With Scratch, we want to let kids to be the creators. We want them to create interesting, dynamic things on the computer.
I became interested in educational technologies because I believe that they have the potential to transform how we practice and think about education and learning.
When you learn through coding, [you're] coding to learn. You're learning it in a meaningful context, and that's the best way of learning things.
I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.
I believe that the best way to help people understand the world is to provide them with opportunities to actively explore, experiment, and express themselves.
Young people today have lots of experience ... interacting with new technologies, but a lot less so of creating [or] expressing themselves with new technologies. It's almost as if they can read but not write.
I started my career as a journalist, writing about science and technology for 'Business Week' magazine. Then I decided to make a career shift. I went to graduate school in computer science, and I began developing educational technologies - in particular, technologies to engage children in creative learning experiences.