I am a second-year graduate student (MA-Thesis) in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development with a concentration in “New Technologies in Human Development.” I work at the Center for Engineering Educational Outreach (CEEO) and my thesis looks at gender differences in problem solving in the domain of engineering. Over the past two years, I have worked with Prof. Marina Bers on Project Inter-Actions, looking at how young children interact with technology.

I received a Bachelor of Science from the School of Engineering at Tufts, and am the "resident" photographer at the CEEO and TUFTL, as I have a part-time photography business (www.laurabeals.com).

PUBLICATIONS
Beals, L., & Bers., M. (in press). Robotic technologies: When parents put their learning ahead of their child's. Journal of Interactive Learning Research.

Bers, M., New, B., & Boudreau*, L. (2004). Teaching and learning when no one is expert: Children and parents explore technology. Journal of Early Childhood Research and Practice. Available at http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v6n2/bers.html.

PUBLISHED PHOTOGRAPHS
(Winter 2005). Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development, Tufts University, Department Website. ase.tufts.edu/epdc.

(Winter 2005). Popeye the robotic crab: A walking LEGO MINDSTORMS with pneumatically-driven legs. Robot, 1.

*Maiden name

Last updated Spring 2006.