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Yasmin B. Kafai
Researcher at University of Pennsylvania
Publications - 275
Citations - 12987
Yasmin B. Kafai is an academic researcher from University of Pennsylvania. The author has contributed to research in topics: Game design & Educational technology. The author has an hindex of 46, co-authored 259 publications receiving 11594 citations. Previous affiliations of Yasmin B. Kafai include University of California, Los Angeles & University of California.
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Scratch: programming for all
Mitchel Resnick,John Maloney,Andrés Monroy-Hernández,Natalie Rusk,Evelyn Eastmond,Karen Brennan,Amon Millner,Eric Rosenbaum,Jay Silver,Brian Silverman,Yasmin B. Kafai +10 more
TL;DR: "Digital fluency" should mean designing, creating, and remixing, not just browsing, chatting, and interacting.
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Constructionism in Practice: Designing, Thinking, and Learning in A Digital World
Yasmin B. Kafai,Mitchel Resnick +1 more
TL;DR: This book presents a meta-history of constructionism and its applications to modern education, focusing on the work of Y.B. Kafai and M. Resnick, who founded the MediaMOO Project, which aimed to combine Constructionism and Professional Community with a broader view of design.
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Playing and Making Games for Learning: Instructionist and Constructionist Perspectives for Game Studies
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an overview of what we know about two perspectives, coined instructionist and constructionist, to games for learning, and compare them with the instructionists, accustomed to thinking in terms of m...
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Minds in Play: Computer Game Design As A Context for Children's Learning
TL;DR: This article reviews the book “Minds in Play: Computer Game Design as a Context for Children's Learning,” by Yasmin B. Kafai.
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Programming by choice: urban youth learning programming with scratch
TL;DR: Scratch is described, a visual, block-based programming language designed to facilitate media manipulation for novice programmers and the motivations of urban youth who choose to program in Scratch rather than using one of the many other software packages available to them are discussed.