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Family Creative Learning Online Workshops

LocationUnhangout DescriptionThis online workshop series is for educators, community center staff, and volunteers interested in engaging th…

Wednesday — Wednesday
January 21, 2015 —
February 11, 2015
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Family creative learning: Engaging parents and children as learning partners in creative technology workshops

Ricarose Roque, Natalie Rusk, Luisa Beck, Xiaodi Chen

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Family Creative Learning

In Family Creative Learning, we engage parents and children in workshops to design and learn together with creative technologies, like the …

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Meet the First PLIX Creative Learning Ambassadors

These first 25 Ambassadors will co-facilitate community meetings, workshops, and online courses from the Public Library Innovation Exchange.

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Mobilizing creative learning with OctoStudio

A new coding app enables young people around the world to use mobile devices to express themselves creatively.

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WeScratch: Creative Coding Online Gatherings

Presicce, C. (2020) WeScratch: Creative Coding Online Gatherings. Proceedings of the 2019 Connected Learning Summit(Vol. 1). Pittsburgh, PA: ETCPress.

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Natalie Rusk

Research Scientist

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Designing Creative Learning Activities

How do you design creative learning activities?

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Creative Learning Conference Brazil

#creativelearning #Brazil

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Mitchel Resnick

LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research

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Learning Creative Learning

Learning Creative Learning is an online course and community of educators, designers, technologists, and tinkerers exploring creative learn…

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Creative Learning

How the MIT Media Lab Learns, And How Everyone Else Can Learn This Way Too

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"Welcome to the Creative Village!": a hands-on introduction to Creative Learning

Help the Media Lab to improve professional development in Creative Learning

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ML Learning

The ML Learning Initiative has merged into the Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio!

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Youth roles and leadership in an online creative community

Ricarose Roque, Natalie Rusk, Amos Blanton

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CoCo: A real-time co-creative learning platform for young people

Media Lab PhD students Manuj Dhariwal + Shruti Dhariwal introduce a new paradigm of creative collaboration in digital learning environments

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Creative Learning Africa

The Lifelong Kindergarten group develops technologies and activities that engage people in creative learning. We’re exploring a few directi…

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Getting Started with Creative Learning in your Public Library

Our PLIX Facilitation Kits are designed to make it easy for librarians to offer creative learning programs to their patrons.

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Learning Creative Learning: It's not a MOOC, it's a community

On Wednesday, October 18, a team from the Media Lab’s Lifelong Kindergarten group is launching a new, experimental online course: Learning …

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Designing a website for creative learning

Andres Monroy-Hernandez

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Creative Learning Design Tools

While text-editors (e.g. Google Docs, MS Word) might be useful for writing a lecture, they’re not an intuitive medium for designing experie…

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Meet the 2023–24 PLIX Creative Learning Ambassadors!

We’re delighted to announce our 2023–24 cohort of PLIX Creative Learning AmbassadorsThese library professionals share our passion for hands…

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Flocks, Pods, and Gaggles: Bringing people together in-person and online

We love well-designed in-person workshops—they are undeniably magical. Conversations that happen spontaneously between sessions, or bonding…

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Brazilian Creative Learning Network / Aprendizagem Criativa no Brasil

The Brazilian Creative Learning Network (BCLN -- https://aprendizagemcriativa.org/) is a grassroots movement that promotes and supports the…

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Introducing a New Class of Creative Tools for Educators: Creative Learning Design Tools

How teaching as a form of creative work can be better empowered with creative tools.

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Family-Friendly Data Privacy + AI Activities: Interactive lessons to help kids learn and design with data privacy in mind

This is a unique time to engage and teach children about the benefits and limitations of technology.

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Cultivating Creativity and Community in a Design-based Online Course

How might we leverage digital collaboration tools to support teens in building community and engaging in open-ended, design-based work?

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Doodle Bot - Creative AI learning

Doodle Bot is a robot-based creative AI learning platform for high school students. It consists of an introduction to robotics, hardware, s…

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Creative Learning Challenge Brazil 2019 - MIT Visit

In May 2019, the Creative Learning Challenge Brazil fellows had the opportunity to visit MIT, get to know educational institutions in the B…

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#79 Lemann Creative Learning Institute

From January 25-29, 2016, the MIT Media Lab invited 11 Brazilian educators, researchers, artists, and entrepreneurs to attend the first Lem…

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Online Learning Webs: Designing Support Structures for Online Communities

Fernando, C. "Online Learning Webs: Designing Support Structures for Online Communities"

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Creative Learning Challenge Brazil 2018 - MIT visit

By Leo BurdIn May 2018, the Creative Learning Challenge Brazil fellows had the opportunity to visit MIT, get to know educational insti…

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Ricarose Roque

Former Research Assistant

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Choreographic Interfaces: Wearable Approaches to Movement Learning in Creative Processes

Afsar, Ozgun Kilic, et al. "Choreographic Interfaces: Wearable Approaches to Movement Learning in Creative Processes." ACM CHI'21 Workshop HAA'21.

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Patterns of interaction predict social role in online learning

Sun, Huaiyi Cici, Dan Calacci, and Alex Sandy Pentland. "Patterns of Interaction Predict Social Role in Online Learning."

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Creative Learning Challenge Brazil / Desafio Aprendizagem Criativa Brazil

The Creative Learning Challenge Brazil is a fellowship program of the Brazilian Creative Learning Network. Supported by the Lemann Foundati…

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Workshops - Wednesday, April 5

Spring 2017 member meeting workshops.

Wednesday
April 5, 2017
4:30pm — 5:30pm ET
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Introducing the 2018-19 MIT Media Lab Learning Fellows

Our new cohort is the most diverse yet—bringing together graduate students from eight Media Lab research groups.

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Cognimates: Collaborative creative learning with embodied intelligent agents

Cognimates is a platform where parents and children (7-10 years old) participate in creative programming activities in which they lea…

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PLIX@Akron: Creative learning + spooky making at the public library

Reflections from our first-ever PLIX Workshop in Akron, Ohio.

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Gallery | MIT-Chile Research Workshops

MIT–Chile Research Workshops is an initiative to bring Artificial Intelligence, Visualization, and Causality research through lectures, han…

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Fall 2017: All Workshops

An overview of the workshops we are hosting on each day of the fall member meeting.

Tuesday — Wednesday
October 17, 2017 —
October 18, 2017
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Fugitive Spaces for Cultivating Creativity: A Framework for Value-Centered Learning Environments

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Cognimates: collaborative creative learning with embodied intelligent agents

Conversational agents and intelligent toys are present in children's homes and influence their development. The introduction of these devic…

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Fostering Creative Learning through Coding and Making in Brazil

The collaboration between the Media Lab and the Lemann Foundation, to support creative learning in Brazil, is moving forward at a fast pace…

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Festival of Learning 2020

A day for learning, sharing, making, creating, and debating at the MIT Media Lab.

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Lifelong Kindergarten

The Lifelong Kindergarten group develops innovative technologies and cultivates caring communities to engage young people from diverse back…

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Eric Schilling

Senior Manager, Digital Media Strategy

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Tools that Lower the Floors, Widen the Walls, and Raise the Ceilings for Designing Creative Learning Experiences

Ahmad, Y. (2020). Tools that Lower the Floors, Widen the Walls, and Raise the Ceilings for Designing Creative Learning Experiences. (Masters Thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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New Online Events and Member Meeting Feedback

Please submit your feedback for the recent Fall Member Event, suggestions for the upcoming Spring Member Event, and preferences for future …

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Experiments in Online Community Management

The Public Library Innovation Exchange (PLIX) is a STEAM education outreach project at the MIT Media Lab. We work with a growing community …

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Designing digital workspaces for creativity and collaboration in online project-based courses

Bringing project-based work online in two very different contexts: a middle school robotics course and a university product design studio.

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Workshops: Thursday, October 24

ThursdayOctober 24, 20191:30pm - 3:00pmFall 2019 Member MeetingWorkshops: Thursday, October 24The MIT Media Lab fall 2019 member meeting is…

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Cultivating an Environment for Creative and Confident Youth Leaders

Lifelong Kindergarten student Jaleesa Trapp shares her experience with the Clubhouse Network Teen Summit.