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Chair: Professor Mitchel Resnick, MIT Media Laboratory
Dissertation Committee: President-Emeritus Paul Gray (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), Professor Steve Massaquoi (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), Dr. Paula Hooper (TERC, Inc.).

Chapman, Robbin (2006). Pearls of Wisdom: Cooperative Constructionism ….. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Media Laboratory.

Advisor: Professor Robert Berwick

Chapman, Robbin (1999).  A Lexicon for Translation of American Sign Language to English.  Unpublished M.S. Thesis. Cambridge, MA: MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dr. Robbin Chapman Publications

Chapman, R. (2007).  The Reflective Mentor Model: Supporting Emergence of Communities of Practice in Informal Learning Environments.  In Kimble, C. and Hildreth, P. (Eds.) Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators.  Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing, Inc.

Kafai, Y., Peppler, K., and Chapman, R. (Eds.)  (2009).  The Computer Clubhouse: Constructionism and Creativity in Youth Communities.

The book is the first of its kind to bring together a collection of writings that expand the learning model of the Computer Clubhouse, provide examples of creative products, document the community and its collaborations, and share evaluations of engagement and learning within individual clubhouses and across the network.

Chapman, R. (2004). Pearls of Wisdom: Social Capital Building in Informal Learning Environments.  In Huysman, M. and Wulf, V.,  (Eds.) Social Capital and Information Technology.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

COMING SOON!

Chapman, R. (1998). Lexicon for Computer Translation of American Sign Language.  In Mittal, V., Yanko, H., Aronis, J., and Simpson, R.  (Eds.) Assistive Technologies and Artificial Intelligence: Applications in Robotics, User Interfaces, and Natural Language Processing.  Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Volume 1458, Jan 1998, pg. 33.