
Marina Umaschi Bers
@marinabers
Augustus Long Professor of Education, @bclynchschool
Director @devtechresearch
Chief Scientist and co-Founder @kinderLabRobot
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Read Frederick M. Hess’s conversation with Tufts University prof. Marina Umaschi Bers about how computer coding can help students develop character & technical skills. #EWOpinion #RHSU AEI Education edweek.org/leadership/opi…

Join our co-founder, Marina Umaschi Bers at her in-person talk "Beyond Coding: Computational Playgrounds in Early Childhood Education" tomorrow at Boston College, where she will discuss her work/research on coding, computational thinking and robotics. RSVP today! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…



This #CSEdWeek we are excited to share that we sat down with Marina Umaschi Bers to discuss her current projects, the notion of a “coding playground,” as well as computer science and computational thinking education (and the difference between the two): siegelendowment.org/insights/artic…


Check out this Siegel Family Endowment article featuring DevTech's director Marina Umaschi Bers Computer Science Education as Coding Playgrounds siegelendowment.org/insights/artic…

#Teachers can blend lessons on #robotics and values, such as generosity and perseverance, asserts Marina Umaschi Bers. Here, Bers tells how she creates a "Palette of Virtues" and how teachers can adopt the practice in their own classrooms. SmartBrief Education #STEM corp.smartbrief.com/original/2023/…

BC Beyond Lifelong Learning Spring 2023 Lecture Series features DevTech's director Prof. Marina Umaschi Bers on Feb 2nd 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m for Beyond Coding: How Children Learn Human Values through Programming, enroll here: web.cvent.com/event/cb8f0e9a…


Yesterday DevTech was honored to welcome Rabbi Sergio Bergman, President of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, to speak at Boston College


Did you know that our very own Dr.Marina Umaschi Bers served as the Content Director for the new PBS KIDS series, Work It Out Wombats!? Check it out:

Join the MIT Press for a book club event with Marina Umaschi Bers, follow this link to register: washingtondc.alumclub.mit.edu/s/1314/bp19/in…


So excited that our symposium "Coding as Another Language: An International Comparative Study of Learning Computer Science and Computational Thinking in Kindergarten" with Marina Umaschi Bers Mark Warschauer and colleagues has been accepted ISLS 2023! See you all in Montreal!

Cada tanto los planetas se alinean y una #polimata en gestación vuelve a nuestras orillas. Es el caso de nuestra queridísima Marina Umaschi Bers quien este miércoles en Fundación Varkey planteará que la programación es una alfabetización básica Bienvenida Escenarios Futuros UdeSA Valeria Larrart Núria Miró


Congratulations to DevTech director Prof. Marina Umaschi Bers for her election into the National Academy of Education! Prof. Bers is one of 18 new members inducted into the Academy based on outstanding leadership and/or scholarship in education research and policy naeducation.org/eighteen-educa…

So happy to be part of this AERA presentation with our amazing colleagues at the Technion in Israel…DevTech Research Group Rinat Rosenberg-Kima Tess Levinson KinderLab Robotics


Congratulations to Dr. Emily Relkin and Dr. Aim Unahalekhaka, my last doctoral students at Tufts DevTech Research Group

