Location
New York, NY
About
Birthday:
November 18
School / Work Affiliation:
World Wide Workshop
I am:
technology director
About Me:
Idit Harel Caperton, Ph.D. is an Israeli-American entrepreneur known for her EdTech innovations, an award-winning author, and futurist of global learning systems. In her academic career, she studied and published on the impact of computational new media technology on the social and academic development of children and their epistemology (knowledge development). Her MIT research, along with that of Seymour Papert, has contributed to the development of constructionist learning theory. As an opinion leader, she blogs monthly on Huffington Post Impact and Technology verticals, as well as on Edutopia, EdSurge, Getting Smart, U.S. News and World Report, and Stanford Social Innovation Review. She was the founder and CEO of MaMaMedia Inc., the executive director of the MaMaMedia Consulting Group (MCG), and is currently the founder, President, and Chair of the World Wide Workshop, best known for Globaloria. In the past two decades, both the MaMaMedia and Globaloria platforms had profound impact on children, youth, educators, and kids media and EdTech industries. Idit serves on advisory boards for several universities and non-profit organizations, and is a regular featured speaker at universities and conferences worldwide.
