Mitchel Resnick

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educator human researcher university professor

Mitchel Resnick is an American educator and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in constructionist learning and for leading the development of the Scratch programming language for children.

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	educator → human → researcher → university professor →
almaMater	MIT → Princeton University →
awardReceived	AACE EdMedia Outstanding Leadership Award → Harold W. McGraw Jr. Prize in Education → NMC Fellows Award →
basedIn	Cambridge, Massachusetts →
citizenship	American →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
developed	Scratch programming language →
developerOf	Scratch online community (conceptual and research leadership) →
educatedAt	Massachusetts Institute of Technology → Princeton University →
employer	Massachusetts Institute of Technology →
familyName	Resnick →
fieldOfWork	computer science education → constructionism → creative learning → education → educational technology → learning sciences →
founded	Lifelong Kindergarten group →
givenName	Mitchel →
hasWritten	Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play →
influencedBy	Seymour Papert → constructionism theory →
knownFor	Lifelong Kindergarten research group → Scratch programming language → constructionist learning → work on creative learning →
languageSpoken	English →
ledDevelopmentOf	Scratch programming language →
memberOf	MIT Media Lab Lifelong Kindergarten group →
name	Mitchel Resnick →
notableWork	Scratch programming language → ScratchJr (conceptual leadership) →
occupation	educator → professor → researcher →
positionHeld	LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research → professor of learning research →
researchInterest	creative thinking in children → design of tools for learning → how people learn → learning through making →
teachesAt	MIT Media Lab →
workInstitution	MIT Media Lab →

Referenced by (4)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Scratch →	creator
constructionism (learning theory) →	furtherDevelopedBy
Seymour Papert →	mentored
Mitchel Resnick →	name