Joe Blatt
Senior Lecturer on Education and Director of Technology
Profile
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Profile
Joe Blatt is Senior Lecturer in Education and former Faculty Co-Chair of the Learning Design, Innovation, and Technology program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). His research and teaching focus on the effects of media content and technology on human development, learning, and civic behavior, particularly for children and young people. Blatt’s work is helping to define and develop the emerging field of informal learning. His current projects include creating digital resources to promote early literacy and understanding of climate change among underserved families with young children.
Blatt previously created television series and interactive media for many types of informal learning environments. Before serving as executive producer of the long-running PBS series Scientific American Frontiers, he made documentaries for NOVA, and close to 100 other programs for public television broadcast, including the popular statistics series Against All Odds. He also created Breakthrough, a prime time series featuring scientists and engineers of color, and Surprises in Mind, about children’s capacity for mathematical thinking. Blatt engages in consulting and advising relationships with major media and technology companies, including Sesame Workshop, the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, WGBH, and Google. He has received HGSE’s highest faculty honor, the Morningstar Award for Teaching Excellence.
Contact
Email: joe_blatt@gse.harvard.edu
Phone: (617) 496-8385
Assitant: Claire Goggin - claire_goggin@gse.harvard.edu
Additional Website: https://www.gse.harvard.edu/directory/faculty/joseph-blatt
Expertise
Informal learning; Media design and production; Educational outreach
Outside professional activities
Outside Professional Activities
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Outside Professional Activities For Joe Blatt
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LexMedia
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The Salata institute
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