Kylie Peppler is an assistant professor of Learning Sciences Program at Indiana University. An artist by training, she engages
in research that focuses on the intersection of arts, media, new technologies, and informal learning. Peppler’s dissertation
work on the study of the media-rich programming environment Scratch resulted in the book, The Computer Clubhouse: Constructionism
and Creativity in Youth Communities. Peppler has since collaborated with Leah Buechley, Yasmin Kafai, and Mike Eisenberg
to study etextiles, which resulted in the forthcoming co-edited volume titled, Textile Messages: Dispatches from the World
of E-Textiles and Education. Her current work on creativity, computation, and media arts in youth communities is supported
by the National Science Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.