DevTech Team: Elizabeth R. Kazakoff

Elizabeth is a third year Ph.D. student in the Child Development department.

Elizabeth focuses on the integration of technology into the classroom and exploring the cognitive impacts of using technology in early childhood. She isinterested in children's beliefs about technology in the world around them and what "digital natives" need to know to be "digitally literate."

Elizabeth spent her first two years working with the Tangible Kindergarten project, where she focused on the link between computer programming and sequencing. She will now be working on the new ScratchJR project to explore digital literacies in the design of a new computer programming environment for use in early childhood.

Elizabeth earned her B.S in Psychology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and M.Ed. in Psychological Studies from Cambridge College. She has worked with children of all ages, in schools, camps, and mental health organizations.

Email: Elizabeth.Kazakoff@Tufts.edu
Web: http://www.elizabethkazakoff.com