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Natalie Rusk

Computer scientist

Natalie Rusk
Born	(1965-02-02) February 2, 1965 (age 59)
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Brown University (BA) Harvard University (EdM) Tufts University (PhD)
Known for	Scratch Computer Clubhouse
Scientific career
Fields	Learning Motivation Emotions Educational programs Educational technology Youth Development[1]
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis	Learning goals for emotion regulation: A randomized intervention study (2011)
Doctoral advisor	Fred Rothbaum[2]
Website	web.media.mit.edu/~nrusk/

Natalie Rusk is a research scientist in the Lifelong Kindergarten (LLK) group,^[3] part of the MIT Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[1][4][5][6]

Education[edit]

Rusk was educated at Brown University where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree with a focus on Chinese language, Chinese literature and Computer science in 1988.^[7] She moved to the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she was awarded a Master of Education (EdM) degree specializing in educational technology in 1989.^[8] She completed her PhDinchild development supervised by Fred Rothbaum at Tufts University in 2011.^[2] Her thesis used a randomized controlled trial to investigate learning goals for emotional self-regulation.^[2]

Career and research[edit]

Rusk's research interests are in learning, motivation, emotions, educational technology and child development.^[1][9][10] Rusk co-founded the Computer Clubhouse,^[11] a network of after-school activities serving children and young adults, in 1993. Rusk is a co-creator of Scratch,^[12][13][14]aprogramming language and online community designed for children to make and share computer animations, video games, interactive stories, and other media. She has collaborated extensively with Mitchel Resnickontechnology education and computer science education for young people.^[1]

Rusk is the lead author of Scratch Coding Cards^[15] and editor of Start Making,^[16] a guide to engaging young people in maker culture.^[8]

Awards and honors[edit]

Rusk was the keynote speaker at the Cambridge Computing Education Research Symposium (CCERS) hosted by the Raspberry Pi Foundation and the University of Cambridge in 2020.^[17]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Natalie Rusk publications indexed by Google Scholar

^ ^{a b c} Rusk, Natalie (2011). Learning Goals for Emotion Regulation: A Randomized Intervention Study. tufts.edu (PhD thesis). Tufts University. hdl:10427/011521. ProQuest 899781409.

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^ Natalie Rusk Homepage web.media.mit.edu/~nrusk/

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^ Natalie RuskatDBLP Bibliography Server

^ Natalie Rusk author profile page at the ACM Digital Library

^ Maloney, John; Resnick, Mitchel; Rusk, Natalie; Silverman, Brian; Eastmond, Evelyn (2010). "The Scratch Programming Language and Environment" (PDF). ACM Transactions on Computing Education. 10 (4): 1–15. doi:10.1145/1868358.1868363. ISSN 1946-6226. S2CID 9744698.

^ Resnick, Mitchel; Maloney, John; Hernández, Andrés; Rusk, Natalie; Eastmond, Evelyn; Brennan, Karen; Millner, Amon; Rosenbaum, Eric; Silver, Jay; Silverman, Brian; Kafai, Yasmin (2009). "Scratch: Programming for All" (PDF). Communications of the ACM. 52 (11): 60–67. doi:10.1145/1592761.1592779. S2CID 9390203.

^ Maloney, John H.; Peppler, Kylie; Kafai, Yasmin; Resnick, Mitchel; Rusk, Natalie (2008). "Programming by choice: urban youth learning programming with Scratch" (PDF). ACM SIGCSE Bulletin. 40 (1): 367. doi:10.1145/1352135.1352260. S2CID 13884453.

^ Rusk, Natalie; Osiecki, Kristin; Bentley, Zoe; Schilling, Eric; He, Helen (2019). The Official Scratch Coding Cards: Scratch 3.0 (PDF). ISBN 978-1457187919. OCLC 945947519.