Jason Yip an Associate Professor of Digital Youth at The Information School and an adjunct assistant professor in Human-Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop. He earned a Ph.D. in science education from the University of Maryland – College Park, and a Masters in science and math education and a Bachelors in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Jason is also the PI and co-PI on several projects focusing on answering the question: “How do new technologies support collaborative learning in families?” To answer this question, he builds innovative technologies for new collaborations and he examines how current technological trends already influence family collaborations around learning. He uses theories and design methods from human-computer interaction, learning sciences, and information sciences to study these family interactions.