Nathan Holbert

Nathan Holbert is an Associate Professor of Communication, Media, and Learning Technologies Design at Teachers College, Columbia University and the founder and director of the Snow Day Learning Lab. His work involves the design and study of playful tools, environments, and activities that allow all children to leverage computational power as they build, test, tinker, and make sense of personally meaningful topics, phenomena, or questions. Nathan is the co-editor of the volume Designing Constructionist Futures: The Art, Theory, and Practice of Learning Designs from MIT Press, co-author of Playful Testing: Designing a Formative Assessment Game for Data Science from ETC Press, and cohosts a podcast on play and pop culture called Pop and Pay produced by Teachers College.