Dorothy T. Bennett, Senior Project Director at the Education Development Center's Center for Children and Technology (CCT), has fifteen years' experience researching and developing educational media, curricula, and teacher enhancement programs in science, mathematics, and technology.

Ms. Bennett has investigated the role of gender in science and technology and the social dimensions of networking technologies in several studies.

She has conducted several research and development projects that explore how design can serve as powerful pathways into science and technology for children, most notably serving as principal investigator of the NSF-funded Imagination Place project, an innovative online design space for kids that aims to increase middle school girls' interests in engineering and invention. She also co-led the NSF-funded Telementoring Young Women in Engineering and Computing project, a widely recognized Internet-based mentoring program for high school girls in project-based science and engineering programs. As part of a national research project on alternative assessment, Ms. Bennett had also worked collaboratively for five years with teachers and students at a number of New York City high schools to research ways in which technology can be used to conduct authentic assessments of students' design-based work in science and mathematics.

Prior to joining CCT, Ms. Bennett had four years of formative research experience testing the comprehension and appeal of video segments for the Children's Television Workshop's award-winning mathematics series, SQUARE ONE TV. She holds a Master's of Science in Education with a focus on adolescent development from Bank Street College of Education.