Marina Umaschi Bers

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1998-2023
Publications (10 Years): 23

Top Topics

Elementary School

Computational Thinking

Early Childhood

Top Venues

J. Inf. Technol. Educ. Innov. Pract.

Publications

Avia Ben-Ari, Tess Gavrielle Levinson, Marina Umaschi Bers, Rinat B. Rosenberg-Kima
Coding as a Self-Expression Tool. SIGCSE (2) (2023)
Apittha Unahalekhaka, Marina Umaschi Bers
Evaluating young children's creative coding: rubric development and testing for ScratchJr projects. Educ. Inf. Technol. 27 (5) (2022)
Laura E. de Ruiter, Marina Umaschi Bers
The Coding Stages Assessment: development and validation of an instrument for assessing young children's proficiency in the ScratchJr programming language. Comput. Sci. Educ. 32 (4) (2022)
Apittha Unahalekhaka, Marina Umaschi Bers
Clustering Young Children's Coding Project Scores with Machine Learning. EDUCON (2022)
Emily Relkin, Marina Umaschi Bers
TechCheck-K: A Measure of Computational Thinking for Kindergarten Children. EDUCON (2021)
Emily Relkin, Laura E. de Ruiter, Marina Umaschi Bers
Learning to code and the acquisition of computational thinking by young children. Comput. Educ. 169 (2021)
Amanda Strawhacker, Clarissa Verish, Orit Shaer, Marina Umaschi Bers
Designing with Genes in Early Childhood: An exploratory user study of the tangible CRISPEE technology. Int. J. Child Comput. Interact. 26 (2020)
Ziva R. Hassenfeld, Madhu Govind, Laura E. de Ruiter, Marina Umaschi Bers
If You Can Program, You Can Write: Learning Introductory Programming Across Literacy Levels. J. Inf. Technol. Educ. Res. 19 (2020)
Clarissa Verish, Amanda Strawhacker, Lauren Westendorf, Christina Pollalis, Amanda Sullivan, Anna Loparev, Marina Umaschi Bers, Orit Shaer
BacToMars: A Collaborative Video Game for BioDesign. CSCL (2019)
Amanda Sullivan, Marina Umaschi Bers
VEX Robotics Competitions: Gender Differences in Student Attitudes and Experiences. J. Inf. Technol. Educ. Res. 18 (2019)
Marina Umaschi Bers, Carina Soledad González-González, M. Belén Armas-Torres
Coding as a playground: Promoting positive learning experiences in childhood classrooms. Comput. Educ. 138 (2019)
Amanda Sullivan, Marina Umaschi Bers
Computer Science Education in Early Childhood: The Case of ScratchJr. J. Inf. Technol. Educ. Innov. Pract. 18 (2019)
Marina Umaschi Bers, Amanda Strawhacker, Miki Vizner
The design of early childhood makerspaces to support positive technological development: Two case studies. Libr. Hi Tech 36 (1) (2018)
Amanda Strawhacker, Amanda Sullivan, Clarissa Verish, Marina Umaschi Bers, Orit Shaer
Enhancing Children's Interest and Knowledge in Bioengineering through an Interactive Videogame. J. Inf. Technol. Educ. Innov. Pract. 17 (2018)
Clarissa Verish, Amanda Strawhacker, Marina Umaschi Bers, Orit Shaer
CRISPEE: A Tangible Gene Editing Platform for Early Childhood. Tangible and Embedded Interaction (2018)
Amanda Sullivan, Marina Umaschi Bers
The Impact of Teacher Gender on Girls' Performance on Programming Tasks in Early Elementary School. J. Inf. Technol. Educ. Innov. Pract. 17 (2018)
Marina Umaschi Bers
Coding, playgrounds and literacy in early childhood education: The development of KIBO robotics and ScratchJr. EDUCON (2018)
Jordi Albo-Canals, Alexandre Barco Martelo, Emily Relkin, Dan Hannon, Marcel Heerink, Martina Heinemann, Kaitlyn Leidl, Marina Umaschi Bers
A Pilot Study of the KIBO Robot in Children with Severe ASD. Int. J. Soc. Robotics 10 (3) (2018)
Anna Loparev, Amanda Sullivan, Clarissa Verish, Lauren Westendorf, Jasmine Davis, Margaret Flemings, Marina Umaschi Bers, Orit Shaer
BacToMars: a collaborative educational video game for teaching biological engineering. FDG (2017)
Alex Pugnali, Amanda Sullivan, Marina Umaschi Bers
The Impact of User Interface on Young Children's Computational Thinking. J. Inf. Technol. Educ. Innov. Pract. 16 (2017)
Marina Umaschi Bers
The Seymour test: Powerful ideas in early childhood education. Int. J. Child Comput. Interact. 14 (2017)
Anna Loparev, Amanda Sullivan, Clarissa Verish, Lauren Westendorf, Jasmine Davis, Margaret Flemings, Marina Umaschi Bers, Orit Shaer
BacToMars: Creative Engagement with Bio-Design for Children. IDC (2017)
Amanda Sullivan, Marina Umaschi Bers
Girls, Boys, and Bots: Gender Differences in Young Children's Performance on Robotics and Programming Tasks. J. Inf. Technol. Educ. Innov. Pract. 15 (2016)
Amanda Sullivan, Mollie Elkin, Marina Umaschi Bers
KIBO robot demo: engaging young children in programming and engineering. IDC (2015)
Amanda Strawhacker, Melissa Lee, Claire Caine, Marina Umaschi Bers
ScratchJr demo: a coding language for kindergarten. IDC (2015)
Katie Apone, Marina Umaschi Bers, Karen Brennan, Diana Franklin, Maya Israel, Pat Yongpradit
Bringing Grades K-5 to the Mainstream of Computer Science Education. SIGCSE (2015)
Dylan J. Portelance, Marina Umaschi Bers
Code and tell: assessing young children's learning of computational thinking using peer video interviews with ScratchJr. IDC (2015)
Marina Umaschi Bers, Louise P. Flannery, Elizabeth R. Kazakoff, Amanda Sullivan
Computational thinking and tinkering: Exploration of an early childhood robotics curriculum. Comput. Educ. 72 (2014)
Mollie Elkin, Amanda Sullivan, Marina Umaschi Bers
Implementing a Robotics Curriculum in an Early Childhood Montessori Classroom. J. Inf. Technol. Educ. Innov. Pract. 13 (2014)
Louise P. Flannery, Brian Silverman, Elizabeth R. Kazakoff, Marina Umaschi Bers, Paula Bontá, Mitchel Resnick
Designing ScratchJr: support for early childhood learning through computer programming. IDC (2013)
Amanda Sullivan, Elizabeth R. Kazakoff, Marina Umaschi Bers
The Wheels on the Bot go Round and Round: Robotics Curriculum in Pre-Kindergarten. J. Inf. Technol. Educ. Innov. Pract. 12 (2013)
Amanda Strawhacker, Amanda Sullivan, Marina Umaschi Bers
TUI, GUI, HUI: is a bimodal interface truly worth the sum of its parts? IDC (2013)
Michael S. Horn, R. Jordan Crouser, Marina Umaschi Bers
Tangible interaction and learning: the case for a hybrid approach. Pers. Ubiquitous Comput. 16 (4) (2012)
Marina Umaschi Bers, Clement Chau
The virtual campus of the future: stimulating and simulating civic actions in a virtual world. J. Comput. High. Educ. 22 (1) (2010)
Marina Umaschi Bers, Clement Chau, Keiko Satoh, Laura Beals
Virtual communities of care: online peer networks with post-organ transplant youth. CSCL (2007)
Clement Chau, Marina Umaschi Bers
Positive Technological Development: A Systems Approach to Understanding Youth Development and Educational Technology. ICLS (2006)
Marina Umaschi Bers, Chris Rogers, Laura Beals, Merredith Portsmore, Kevin Staszowski, Erin Cejka, Adam Carberry, Brian Gravel, Janice L. Anderson, Michael Barnett
Early Childhood Robotics for Learning. ICLS (2006)
Clement Chau, Ashima Mathur, Marina Umaschi Bers
Active Citizenship through Technology: Collaboration, Connection, and Civic Participation. ICLS (2006)
Marina Umaschi Bers, Clement Chau
Fostering Civic Engagement by Building a Virtual City. J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. 11 (3) (2006)
Marina Umaschi Bers, Joseph Gonzalez-Heydrich, David Ray DeMaso
Identity construction environments: supporting a virtual therapeutic community of pediatric patients undergoing dialysis. CHI (2001)
Marina Umaschi Bers, Joseph Gonzalez-Heydrich, Darcy Raches, David Ray DeMaso
Zora: A Pilot Virtual Community in the Pediatric Dialysis Unit. MedInfo (2001)
Marina Umaschi Bers, Michael L. Best
Rural connected communities: a project in online collaborative journalism. CSCL (1999)
Marina Umaschi Bers
Zora: a graphical multi-user environment to share stories about the self. CSCL (1999)
Marina Umaschi Bers, Edith Ackermann, Justine Cassell, Beth Donegan, Joseph Gonzalez-Heydrich, David Ray DeMaso, Carol Strohecker, Sarah Lualdi, Dennis Bromley, Judith Karlin
Interactive Storytelling Environments: Coping with Cardiac Illness at Boston's Children's Hospital. CHI (1998)