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Idit Harel Caperton

Idit Harel Caperton is an Israeli-American educational psychologist and entrepreneur known for founding MaMaMedia, the World Wide Workshop and Globaloria.

born 1958Founding MaMaMediaFounding GlobaloriaThe book Children DesignersConstructionist learning research

Born: 18 September 1958, Tel Aviv
Occupation: educational psychologist
Education: Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tel Aviv University

Idit Harel Caperton was born in 1958 in Tel Aviv

Idit Ron was born in Tel Aviv on September 18, 1958. Her parents and their families were Holocaust survivors from Poland and Czechoslovakia. She married David Harel in 1979, and they have 3 children. They divorced in 1995.

She earned a BA in psychology and philosophy at Tel Aviv University. In 1982 she moved to the United States to study at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she received degrees in 1984 and 1985. She completed a PhD at MIT in 1988, working with Seymour Papert on constructionist learning.

Her research, in which Boston-area fourth graders built math software in the Logo language, led to the 1991 book Children Designers. The book won an award from the American Education Research Association that year.

In 1995 she moved to New York City and founded MaMaMedia, a website of learning activities for children. In 2004 she founded the non-profit World Wide Workshop, and in 2006 its Globaloria program was set up for schools. She married former West Virginia governor Gaston Caperton in 2003, and they divorced in 2012.