Idit Harel Caperton Biography

Dr. Idit Harel is an Israeli-American tech entrepreneur and a visionary edtech pioneer in inventing new-media technology for cultivating creative learning innovative thinking and globalization through constructionist learning theory. She is an award-winning learning scientist and founder and CEO of several edtech startups most recently Globaloria.
During 1985-1994 Idit conducted breakthrough research at the MIT Media Lab that led to publishing many articles about learning computer programming and education technology including a special issue about her research by the Journal of Mathematical Behavior an article in the inaugural issue of a new learning sciences journal called Interactive Learning Environments as well as the book Constructionism she edited with Seymour Papert and her book Children Designers received the 1991 Outstanding Book Award by the American Education Research Association (AERA). She was a Research Scientist and Lecturer at MIT from 1988-1994.
In 1994 at the birth of the Internet Idit left academia to impact the real world by pioneering constructionist Internet media for kids. With Papert on her Advisory Board she launched MaMaMedia.com as a media lab for kids on the Net ConnectedFamily.com for parents of digital kids and Papert.org for academics and scholars of learning. MaMaMedia established how to engage kids online in creative learning and participatory communities long before Web2.0 and the rise of social networks. MaMaMedia was a trailblazer with its first-of-its-kind online global distribution partnerships and online kids-advertising methods and won numerous honors for its original internet magazine for kids online programming products and services for first-generation digital kids and parents including: the Computerworld-Smithsonian Award (1999) the Internet industry’s coveted Global Information Infrastructure Award (1999) and the 21st-Century Achievement award from the Computerworld Honors Program (2002). In 2002 she was also honored by the Network of Educators in Science and Technology and MIT “for devotion innovation and imagination in science and technology on behalf of children and youth around the world.”

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