Natalie Rusk
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| Born | February 2, 1965 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Brown University (BA) Harvard University (EdM) Tufts University (PhD) |
| Known for | Scratch Computer Clubhouse |
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| Fields | Learning Motivation Emotions Educational Programs and Technologies Youth Development[1] |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Learning goals for emotion regulation: A randomized intervention study (2011) |
| Doctoral advisor | Fred Rothbaum[2] |
| Website | web |
Natalie Rusk is a research scientist in the Lifelong Kindergarten (LLK) group,[3] part of the MIT Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1][4][5]
Education
Rusk was educated at Brown University where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree with a focus on the Chinese language in 1988. She moved to the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she was awarded a Master of Education (EdM) degree specializing in educational technology in 1989.[6] She completed her PhD in child development supervised by Fred Rothbaum at Tufts University in 2011.[2]
Career and research
Rusk's research interests are in learning, motivation, emotions, educational programs and technologies and youth development[1] Rusk co-founded the Computer Clubhouse,[7] a network of after-school programs serving children and young adults, in 1993. Rusk is also a co-creator of Scratch,[8][9][10] a programming language and online community designed for children to make and share animations, games, interactive stories, and other media. She has collaborated closely with Mitchel Resnick on children's technology education and computer science education.[1]
Rusk is lead author of the Scratch Coding Cards[11] and editor of the book, Start Making! a guide to engaging young peope in maker culture.[6][12]
Awards and honors
Rusk was the keynote speaker at the Cambridge Computing Education Research Symposium (CCERS20) hosted by the Raspberry Pi Foundation and the University of Cambridge in 2020.[13]
References
- ^ a b c d Natalie Rusk publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ a b Rusk, Natalie (2011). Learning Goals for Emotion Regulation: A Randomized Intervention Study. tufts.edu (PhD thesis). Tufts University. hdl:10427/011521. ProQuest 899781409.
- ^ http://llk.media.mit.edu
- ^ Natalie Rusk on Twitter
- ^ Tiku, Nitasha (2014). "How to Get Girls Into Coding". nytimes.com. New York Times.
- ^ a b https://www.media.mit.edu/people/nrusk/overview/
- ^ Resnick, M., Rusk, N., Cooke, S. (1998). "The Computer Clubhouse: Technological Fluency in the Inner City" (PDF). High Technology and Low-Income Communities. MIT Press.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Maloney, John; Resnick, Mitchel; Rusk, Natalie; Silverman, Brian; Eastmond, Evelyn (2010). "The Scratch Programming Language and Environment" (PDF). ACM Transactions on Computing Education. 10 (4): 1–15. doi:10.1145/1868358.1868363. ISSN 1946-6226.
- ^ Resnick, Mitchel; Maloney, John; Hernández, Andrés; Rusk, Natalie; Eastmond, Evelyn; Brennan, Karen; Millner, Amon; Rosenbaum, Eric; Silver, Jay; Silverman, Brian; Kafai, Yasmin (2009). "Scratch: Programming for All" (PDF). Communications of the ACM. 52 (11): 60–67. doi:10.1145/1592761.1592779.
- ^ Maloney, John H.; Peppler, Kylie; Kafai, Yasmin; Resnick, Mitchel; Rusk, Natalie (2008). "Programming by choice: urban youth learning programming with Scratch". ACM SIGCSE Bulletin. 40 (1): 367. doi:10.1145/1352135.1352260.
- ^ Rusk, Natalie (2019). The Official Scratch Coding Cards (Scratch 3.0). ISBN 978-1457187919. OCLC 945947519.
- ^ Rusk, Natalie (2016). Start Making! A Guide to Engaging Young People in Maker Activities. ISBN 978-1593279769. OCLC 1011088647.
- ^ https://www.raspberrypi.org/cambridge-computing-education-research-symposium/
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