Karen came to the Media Lab in 2007, after having explored music, computer science, mathematics, and education in her post-secondary studies. She has a BSc in computer science and mathematics, a BEd in the same areas, and an MA in curriculum studies, all from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
Karen's research is primarily concerned with the ways in which learning communities support computational creators—and how technologies and environments can be designed for these communities. More concretely, her work focuses on the Scratch website and Scratch educator community. Karen studies how participation in the Scratch online community and how professional development for educators can support young people as creators of computational media.
