Event

Jen Groff @ Media Literacy Conference: Playful Learning

LocationMIT Media Lab, 6th Floor Description

Saturday
November 2, 2013
Person

Jennifer Groff

Former Research Assistant

Event

Jen Groff @ Playful City, Laboratorio para la Ciudad in Mexico City

LocationLaboratorio para la Ciudad, Mexico City Description

Friday — Thursday
December 4, 2015 —
December 3, 2015
Event

Playful Making, Playful Learning

As part of Plan Ceibal Foundation's Annual Educational Innovation Forum and this year's 10th Anniversary Conference, this event will b…

Wednesday
May 10, 2017
3:00pm — 4:00pm ET
Article

Jen Groff: Curriculum Redesign & Gaming

Event

Jennifer Groff Dissertation Defense

Reengineering Education: Systems Engineering and the LearningGraph as a Means to Developing a Coherent Learning Data ArchitectureCOMMI…

Monday
August 13, 2018
1:00pm — 3:00pm ET
Person

Dennis Jen

Lead Software Engineer at SSRC

Article

Learning interventions for language and literacy

Building on research about deeper social-emotional engagement

Project

Curious Learning: Understanding learning behaviors for early literacy

Early literacy plays an important role in a child's future. However, the reality is that over 57 million children have no access to a schoo…

Publication

Mathland: Playful Mathematical Learning in Mixed Reality

Mina Khan, Fernando Trujano, Ashris Choudhury, Pattie Maes, "Mathland: Playful Mathematical Learning in Mixed Reality" CHI EA '18 Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Project

Child-Driven, Robot-Guided Literacy Activity

 

Publication

Edutainment? No Thanks I Prefer Playful Learning

Mitchel Resnick

Post

Creative Learning Conference Brazil

#creativelearning #Brazil

Person

Ivan Sysoev

Former Postdoctoral Associate

Article

AI literacy, explained

Cynthia Breazeal, head of the Personal Robots research group, talks to Education Week about early opportunities for AI literacy.

Person

Jennifer Fairhurst

Project

Impact.AI: K-12 AI Literacy

Today’s artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are changing how many people play, work, learn, and govern themselves. Due to this rapid …

Post

Meet the MIT Media Lab Learning Fellows

Welcoming three LEGO Papert Fellows and six Learning Innovation Fellows to our new cohort

Event

Media Lab @ O'Reilly Solid Conference

LocationSan Francisco, CA DescriptionSpeaker ScheduleJoi Ito: Co-host and keynote speakerMay 21, 9:45am | Nadya Peek: Making Machines that …

Wednesday — Thursday
May 21, 2014 —
May 22, 2014
Event

Media Lab @ INK Conference 2013

LocationOman Hall, Kochi, Kerala, India DescriptionSaturday, October 26, 201316:45 - 18:30 ISTSESSION 6: Collect, Connect panel with Kshiti…

Sunday
October 27, 2013
Post

Meet the Media Lab’s New Learning Innovation Fellows

The Media Lab is thrilled to announce our inaugural cohort of Learning Innovation fellows for the 2016–2017 academic year.

Event

Jason Haas & Eric Klopfer @ Games, Learning, and Society Conference

LocationMadison, WI Description

Thursday — Friday
June 14, 2012 —
June 15, 2012
Person

Benjamin Jenett

Former Postdoctoral Associate

Person

Jennifer Chow

Former Education and Outreach Manager, Open Ocean

Person

Jennifer McCrea

Senior Research Fellow, Harvard University; Advisory Council Member

Person

Jennifer Jacobs

Former Research Assistant

Person

Rahul Bhargava

Former Research Scientist

Post

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.

Project

Theme | AI Literacy

We seek to empower everyone to become conscientious consumers, ethical engineers, creative problem solvers, and informed advocates for resp…

Event

The Future of News and Civic Media Conference

DescriptionOn June 17-19, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and MIT's Center for Future Civic Media will once again host the Futur…

Wednesday — Friday
June 17, 2009 —
June 19, 2009
Post

Festival of Learning 2022 at the MIT Media Lab

Festival of Learning is always a time of meeting new people while reconnecting with friends I haven't seen in a while, which has been espec…

Publication

Personalized Learning: The State of the Field & Future Directions

Groff, J. (2017). Personalized learning: The state of the field & future directions. Center for Curriculum Redesign.

Group

Lifelong Kindergarten

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

Project

AI Audit: AI Ethics Literacy

An essential element of K-12 AI literacy is educating learners about the ethical and societal implications of AI systems. Previous work in …

Publication

Better Learning in Games: A Balanced Design Lens for a New Generation of Learning Games

Groff, J., Clarke-Midura, J., Owen, V.E., Rosenheck, L., & Beall, M. (2015). Better Learning in Games: A Balanced Design Lens for a New Generation of Learning Games [white paper]. Cambridge, MA: MIT Education Arcade and Learning Games Network.

Publication

Approaches to Building Big Data Literacy

D’Ignazio, C., & Bhargava, R. (2015). Approaches to Building Big Data Literacy. In Bloomberg Data for Good Exchange 2015. New York, NY, USA.

Publication

A Model-free Affective Reinforcement Learning Approach to Personalization of a Social Robot Companion for Early Literacy Education

Hae Won Park, Ishaan Grover, Samuel Spaulding, Louis Gomez, and Cynthia Breazeal. “A Model- free Affective Reinforcement Learning Approach to Personalization of a Social Robot Companion for Early Literacy Education” In Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2019.

Article

Study: Digital literacy doesn’t stop the spread of misinformation

Digital literacy helps people identify misinformation — but it doesn’t necessarily stop them from spreading it.

Group

Playful Systems

In a world mediated through computing, our everyday lives are increasingly affected by complex and invisible systems. Some of these are alg…

Project

The LearningGraph

Content and curriculum lie at the heart of every educational system, learning environment, and learning technology. Yet the infrastructure …

Event

Mitchel Resnick Keynote at World Conference on Educational Media and Technology

LocationVictoria, BC Description

Tuesday
June 25, 2013
Article

Can technology help teach literacy in poor communities?

This article originally appeared in the MIT News. Visit the link for more details.For the past four years, researchers at MIT, Tufts Univer…

Project

Playful Words

While there are a number of literacy technology solutions developed for individuals, the role of social—or networked—literacy learning is l…

Video

Scratch Conference 2018: Day 3

Day 3 scheduleScratch@MIT is a playful gathering of educators, researchers, developers, and other members of the worldwide Scratch communit…

Video

Scratch Conference 2018: Day 2

Day 2 scheduleScratch@MIT is a playful gathering of educators, researchers, developers, and other members of the worldwide Scratch communit…

Video

Scratch Conference 2018: Day 1

Day 1 scheduleScratch@MIT is a playful gathering of educators, researchers, developers, and other members of the worldwide Scratch communit…

Publication

DataBasic: Design Principles, Tools and Activities for Data Literacy Learners

D’Ignazio, C., & Bhargava, R. (2016). DataBasic: Design Principles, Tools and Activities for Data Literacy Learners. The Journal of Community Informatics, 12(3).

Publication

Designing Tools and Activities for Data Literacy Learners

Bhargava, R., & D’Ignazio, C. (2015). Designing Tools and Activities for Data Literacy Learners. In Wed Science: Data Literacy Workshop. Oxford, UK.

Publication

Designing building blocks for open-ended early literacy software

Sysoev, Ivan, et al. "Designing building blocks for open-ended early literacy software." International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction 28 (2021)

Publication

Pre-pilot findings on developing a literacy tablet.

A. Chang, D. Nunez, T. Roberts, D. Sengeh, C. Breazeal

Publication

Data Sculptures as a Playful and Low-Tech Introduction to Working with Data

Bhargava, R., & D’Ignazio, C. (2017). Data Sculptures as a Playful and Low-Tech Introduction to Working with Data. Presented at the Designing Interactive Systems, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Person

Cynthia Breazeal

Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; MIT Dean for Digital Learning

Publication

Beyond Data Literacy: Reinventing Community Engagement and Empowerment in the Age of Data

Letouzé, E., Noonan, A., Bhargava, R., Deahl, E., Sangokoya, D., & Shoup, N. (2015, September). Beyond Data Literacy: Reinventing Community Engagement and Empowerment in the Age of Data. Data-Pop Alliance.

Article

MIT Chalk Radio: AI Literacy for All with Prof. Cynthia Breazeal

Social robotics pioneer Prof. Cynthia Breazeal discusses artificial intelligence in our lives, digital citizenship, and AI education for all

Post

Impact Award for Media Lab work at 2018 Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI)

"A model of textual affect sensing using real-world knowledge," a 2003 paper by Fluid Interfaces alum Hugo Liu and former Me…

Post

PotScript: A Visual Grammar for Sculpting with Functions presented at ACM SCF Conference in NYC

PotScript: a playful 3D modeling tool that integrates a visual grammar with shaping curves to model forms as parametric functions.