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Mitch Resnick and Natalie Rusk from the Lifelong Kindergarten group will be keynote speakers at the conference this year.
Launched in 2007, the Scratch Online Community enables children, primarily between the ages of 8 and 16, to share interactive media such as…
Every day, young people around the world use the Scratch programming language to create and share thousands of interactive projects on the …
The MIT Scratch Team is exploring ways to make it easier for newcomers to get started creating with coding. We are designing "microworlds"—…
ScratchBit is an effort to enable children to create more seamlessly in both the physical and digital world by creating a dedicated physica…
The Clubhouse provides a creative and safe out-of-school learning environment where young people from underserved communities around the wo…
Learning Creative Learning is an online course and community of educators, designers, technologists, and tinkerers exploring creative learn…
Scratch encourages children to find community and a lifelong interest in code.
WeScratch are online workshops for everyone who wants to learn how to create projects in Scratch in an inclusive, collaborative, …
Scratch in Practice (SiP) shares stories, strategies, and resources from the Scratch Team and educators around the world. The SiP website f…
In Family Creative Learning, we engage parents and children in workshops to design and learn together with creative technologies, like the …
As children tinker with materials in the world, they are constantly putting things together and taking them apart. They are learning throug…
The IDEAS (Innovative Design Experiences After School) Institute is an innovative professional-development program for people working at af…
Crickets are small programmable devices that can make things spin, light up, and play music. With Crickets, kids can create musical sculptu…
More and more computational activities revolve around collecting, accessing, and manipulating large sets of data, but introductory approach…
Scratch Community Blocks is an NSF-funded project that extends the Scratch programming language to enable youth to analyze and visualize th…
The Clubhouse Village is an online community that connects people at The Clubhouse Network after-school centers around the world. Through t…
To foster and better understand collaboration in the Scratch Online Community, we created Collab Camp, a month-long event in which Scratch …
Most uses of digital technologies pull young people away from hands-on experimentation with the physical world. The Playful Invention and E…
We are developing a set of participatory "maker" activities to engage youth in creating tangible projects that depict stories about themsel…
The Lifelong Kindergarten group is collaborating with the Museum of Science in Boston to develop materials and workshops that engage young …
We are developing the next generation of invention kits for kids, expanding the range of what kids can design, create, and invent. This pro…
Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…
The new version of the popular free coding platform builds on a robust community of kid coders.
OctoStudio is a free coding app available at octostudio.orgOctoStudio transforms how young people use mobile phones and tablets, enabl…
Teen Summit is a biennial week-long Youth Leadership event that brings Clubhouse youth together from each of the 100 Clubhouses internation…
Too many apps treat young people as passive consumers, not motivated makers. But there are alternatives.
The Lifelong Kindergarten group develops innovative technologies and cultivates caring communities to engage young people from diverse back…
How the MIT Media Lab Learns, And How Everyone Else Can Learn This Way Too
A new coding app enables young people around the world to use mobile devices to express themselves creatively.
Scratch Day @ MIT was one of over 1,110 such events around the world in May.
We're thrilled to welcome our friends at the Museum to Kendall Square!
The next generation of Scratch expands how, what, and where kids can create with code.
Media Cloud is a platform for studying media ecosystems. By tracking millions of stories published online, the system allows researchers to…
Traditional additive manufacturing processes, especially those that make use of liquid resin as the feedstock, are constrained by the gravi…
The MIT Media Lab’s Civic Media group is no longer active. This site provides background on some of the people and projects that were assoc…
This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.The Humanizing …
The MIT Media Lab’s Center for Civic Media is no longer active. This site provides background on some of the people and projects that were …
Dreaming through Code Designing creative learning workshops for local organizations committed to introducing technology to kids in a n…
Since the killing of Michael Brown, the Black Lives Matter movement has organized on social media to draw attention to the deaths of unarme…
The Signal Kinetics group invents wireless technologies to interconnect, sense, and perceive the physical world in ways that were not possi…
The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) and the MIT Media Lab are joining forces to launch a global Council on Ex…
Listening to DisruptIn this session of the Media Lab Perspectives series, Deb Roy will engage his collaborator Kathy Cramer in co…
The following Media Lab community members are participating in the thirty-third conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.
Thursday May 27, 2021 …
A report from the Symposium on Trust and Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles (STEAV).
The SNAPSHOT study seeks to measure Sleep, Networks, Affect, Performance, Stress, and Health using Objective Techniques. It is an NIH-funde…
N. Freed, J. Qi, A. Setapen, C. Breazeal, L. Buechley, H. Raffle
John B Herrington, the first member of a federally recognized tribe to travel to space, will speak about Indigenous views of space activity.
Launched in early 2016, the Journal of Design and Science (JoDS) captures the antidisciplinary ethos of the MIT Media Lab. Like the Lab, it…
Personal RobotsThe Personal Robots group bridges the gap between intelligent personified technologies and human collaborative behavior. We …
Freed, N. "This is the Fluffy Robot that Only Speaks French": Language Use Between Preschoolers, their Families, and a Social Robot While Sharing Virtual Toys"
This is a story of dreams coming true in roundabout ways. How things inside are often not at all what they appear to be on the outside.