Marina Bers discusses how the Positive Technological Development framework may offer a possible path to help children out of the playpens into the playgrounds of this technological era.
This talk by Marina Bers will focus on digital spaces to support positive youth development.
Marcella Szablewicz: "Are games the imagined utopia they are made out to be in these nostalgic accounts or might these affective attachments prove to be a form of what Lauren Berlant has called cruel optimism?"
Sonia Livingstone will examine how powerful forces of social reproduction result in missed opportunities for many youth in the risk society.
How are “tweens” represented in popular culture, including music, television, and YA literature? And how does this relatively new age category intersect with--or elide--issues pertaining to race, class, and gender identity?
Prof. Marina Bers will describe current research on a pedagogical approach for early childhood computer science education called “Coding as Another Language”.