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Derek Breen (born March 28, 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American writer, educator and graphic designer.

Biography
Derek Breen is a writer, educator and graphic designer from Boston, Massachusetts.

Breen studied instructional design and educational media development at Harvard Extension School, where he had a teaching fellowship in 2014. He also had a teaching fellowship at Moscow State Pedagogical University in 2016.

Breen was on the faculty of British School of Art and Design in Moscow from 2016 to 2017. He has served as owner/operator of Mod, a cybercafé and digital learning center in Charlottesville, Virginia.

In 2015 Breen started publishing books for teachers and students which explore programming, digital design and digital storytelling. Since then he has done extensive educational charity work across Europe, Asia and Africa, including serving as a special ambassador for EU Code Week and Africa Code Week. Breen's books have been translated into several languages including French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Dutch, Hungarian and Chinese.

On January 29, 2018 Breen publicly disclosed he has advanced brain cancer, discovered in 2014, which caused him to cease his international teaching and educational advocacy work in March, 2017.

Published Books

 *  Scratch For Kids for Dummies, Wiley Publishing, 2015
 *  Creating Digital Animations, Wiley Publishing, 2016
 *  Designing Digital Games, Wiley Publishing, 2016

Educational Products

 * Coding Scratch Game Design Skill Cards, ETA Hand2Mind, 2015, collaboration with Cynthia Solomon
 * Digital Game Design Curriculum Guide, i2 Learning, 2016, collaboration with Cynthia Solomon
 * StarLogo Nova, Education Arcade at MIT, led by Daniel Wendel