Mitchel Resnick LEGO/Papert Professor of Learning Research, Media Laboratory Mitchel Resnick explores how new technologies both necessitate and facilitate deep changes in the ways people think and learn. Resnick's Lifelong Kindergarten group has developed a variety of educational tools, including the "programmable bricks" that were the basis for LEGO's award-winning Mindstorms robotics construction kit. Resnick also led the development of StarLogo, a software toolkit for modeling decentralized systems, and co-founded the Computer Clubhouse project, a network of after-school learning centers for youth from underserved communities. Resnick earned a BS in physics from Princeton University, and an MS and PhD in computer science from MIT. Before pursuing his graduate degrees, he worked for five years as a science/technology journalist for Business Week magazine. Resnick, who was awarded a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award in 1994, is author of Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams (1993), co-editor (with Yasim Kafai) of Constructionism in Practice: Designing, Thinking, and Learning in a Digital World (1996), and co-author (with Vanessa Colella and Eric Klopfer) of Adventures in Modeling: Exploring Complex, Dynamic Systems with StarLogo (2001). Back to the Full Schedule.