Jason Yip

Jason Yip is an assistant professor at The Information School and adjunct assistant professor at Human Centered Design & Engineering in University of Washington – Seattle. He is also a senior research fellow at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop. His research examines how technologies can support collaborative learning in families. He is a co-principal investigator on a National Science Foundation Cyberlearning project on designing social media technologies to support neighborhoods learning science together. He is the director of KidsTeam UW, an intergenerational group of children (ages 7 – 11) and researchers co-designing new technologies and learning activities for children, with children. Dr. Yip is the principal investigator of a Google Faculty Research Award project that examines how Latino children search and broker online information for their English-language learning parents. He holds a B.A. (2001) in chemistry and M.S.Ed (2002) in science and math education from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. (2014) in curriculum and instruction from the University of Maryland.