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Marina Umaschi Bers
Alma mater
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scientific career
Thesis
Identity construction environments : the design of computational tools for exploring a sense of self and moral values(2001)
Doctoral advisor
Seymour Papert
Marina Umaschi Bers is the Augustus Long Professor of Education at Boston College. Bers holds a secondary appointment in Boston College's Department of Computer Science. Bers directs the interdisciplinary DevTech Research Group, which she started in 2001 at Tufts University.[1] Her research involves the design and study of innovative learning technologies to promote children's positive development. She is known for her work in the field of early childhood computer science with projects of national and international visibility. Bers is the co-creator of the free ScratchJr programming language, used by 35 million children, and the creator of the KIBO robotic kit, which has no screens or keyboards.[2]
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