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Yasmin Kafai

Associate Professor
Psychological Studies in Education

2331 Moore Hall

(310) 206 8150

kafai@gseis.ucla.edu

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Education

Ed. D. Human Development and Psychology, Harvard University, 1993
M. Ed. Interactive Technology in Education, Harvard University, 1990
Technical University Berlin, 1987

News

Dr. Yasmin Kafai just received together with researchers from the MIT Media Laboratory a four year $1.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop and study “A Networked, Media-Rich Programming Environment to Enhance Technological Fluency at After-School Centers in Economically Disadvataged Community Technology Centers”

Recent Publications

Kafai, Y. B., & Ching, C. C. (2001). Affordances of collaborative software design planning for elementary students’ science talk. The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 10(3), 323-363.

Ching, C. C., Kafai, Y. B., & Marshall, S. (2000). Spaces for change: Gender and technology access in collaborative software design projects. Journal for Science Education and Technology 9(1), 45–56.

Kafai, Y. B. (1996). Gender differences in children's constructions of video games. In Patricia M. Greenfield & Rodney R. Cocking (Eds.), Interacting with video (pp. 39–66). Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation.

Kafai, Y. B. & Resnick, M. (1996) (Eds.), Constructionism in practice: Designing, thinking, and learning in a digital world. Mawhaw, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Kafai, Y. B. (1995). Minds in play: Computer game design as a context for children's learning. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.



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