Honors & Awards

Children Designers: Through her study at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the MIT Media Lab, Harel Caperton established the children as software designers method of learning. She studied the Constructionist vision of computer programming and in 1991 wrote her book Children Designers, which casted learners in the role of instructors and knowledge communicators rather than information recipients, and in the role of media producers rather than consumers. 

*2013: Globaloria awarded Silicon Valley Education Foundation STEM Innovation Award in the Science Category

*2013: Globaloria named Microsoft Education Laureate in The Tech Museum of Innovation Tech Awards

*2013: Named to Disruptor Foundation Fellows

*2011: Named “Digital Leader and Luminary” by Digital Learning Now!

*2010: Jessie McCanse Award for Individual Contribution to Media Literacy, by the National Telemedia Council.

*2005: Named Beijing Normal University Honorary Professor.

*2002: The Network of Educators in Science and Technology and MIT honored Dr. Idit Harel Caperton their “Award for devotion, innovation, and imagination in science and technology on behalf of children and youth around the world.”

*1991: Outstanding Book Award for Children Designers, by the American Education Research Association (AERA).

*1989: Journal of Mathematical Behavior - Special Annual Issue on Outstanding Dissertation: Interdisciplinary Constructions of Learning and Knowing Mathematics in a Computer-Rich School.