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Ecology, Evolution, and Engineering for Empowered Brains

Sponsored and run by members of the MIT Media Lab and the Empowered Brain Institute, Ecology, Evolution, and Engineering for Empower...
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Affective Computing

Advancing wellbeing using new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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Refugee Learning Accelerator

We support computer scientists and engineers from the Middle East to create technologies for refugee learners. The Refugee Learning ...
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Fluid Interfaces

Integrating digital interfaces more naturally into our physical lives, enabling insight, inspiration, and interpersonal connections
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Social Machines

Understanding and empowering human networks
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ML Learning

ML Learning
Ethics
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Playful Words

To learn more about our lab's learning project, please check out: http://playfulwords.org/
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Personal Robots

Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
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Scratch

Scratch is a programming language and online community that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, games, and animations–a...
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Open Leadership Camp

A new type of leadership development for the social sector.
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Transformative Leadership

Despite of gazillions of leadership programs across university campuses and organizations, we increasingly live in an era of leadership d...
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Making new (robot) friends

Understanding children's relationships with social robots
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Montessori Was the Original Personalized Learning. Now, 100 Years Later, Wildflower Is Reinventing the Model

For a classroom of a dozen 3- through 6-year-olds, things are surprisingly quiet inside Wildflower Montessori. The most audible sounds, t...
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Playful Systems

Designing systems that become experiences to transcend utility and usability
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Responsive Science

Responsive Science is a way of conducting research that invites openness and community involvement from the earliest stages of each proje...
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The Seeds That Seymour Sowed

Seymour Papert’s ideas about children, computers, and learning inspired many.
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Social Computing

Creating sociotechnical systems that shape our urban environments
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Open Leadership Camp

The Open Leadership Camp (OLC) is a new type of professional development program for senior leaders of nonprofit and public sector organi...
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StoryBlocks

Supporting self-expression through story telling and story remixing.StoryBlocks is a mobile application where children can create stories...
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Projects, passion, peers and play: Seymour Papert’s vision for learning

Mitchel Resnick—on the power of Papert's ideas for learning.
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Relational AI

Creating long-term interpersonal interaction and shared experiences with social robots. Many of our current projects explore the use of s...
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Making new (robot) friends: Further reading

For the interested reader:If you'd like to learn more about the topics covered in my post,  Making new (robot) friends: Understandin...
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Children Use Nonverbal Cues to Learn from Robots

When learning from human partners, infants and young children will pay attention to nonverbal signals, such as gaze and bodily orientatio...
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Socially Assistive Robotics: An NSF Expedition in Computing

Our mission is to develop the computational techniques that will enable the design, implementation, and evaluation of "relational" robots...
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Storytelling Companion

Children’s oral language skills in preschool can predict their academic success later in life. Helping children improve their language an...
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Archived
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Robotic Learning Companions

The language and literacy skills of young children entering school are highly predictive of their long-term academic success. Children fr...
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Archived
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Robot Expressiveness Affects Children's Learning

Prior research with preschool children has established that book reading, especially when children are encouraged to actively process the...
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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 sch...
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Flat versus expressive storytelling: young children's learning and retention of a social robot's narrative

Kory Westlund, J., Jeong, S., Park, H. W., Ronfard, S., Adhikari, A., Harris, P. L., David DeSteno, & Breazeal, C. (2017). Flat versus expressive storytelling: young children's learning and retention of a social robot's narrative. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
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A Comparison of children learning from robots, tablets, and people

Kory Westlund, J., Dickens, L., Jeong, S., Harris, P., DeSteno, D., & Breazeal, C. (2015). A Comparison of children learning from robots, tablets, and people. In Proceedings of New Friends: The 1st International Conference on Social Robots in Therapy and Education.
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HUBweek Change Maker: Andrew Sliwinski

Completely unexpected moments of expression and creativity can spring from the humble tools we design.
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Tega: A New Platform for Long-term Interaction

Tega is a new robot platform designed to support long-term, in-home interactions with children, with applications in early-literacy educa...
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Robotic Language Learning Companions

Young children learn language not through listening alone, but through active communication with a social actor. Cultural immersion and c...
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Mission Wildlife

Mission Wildlife is a research collaboration between San Diego Zoo Global and the MIT Center for Civic Media to explore the pot...
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
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Projects, Passion, Peers and Play: Seymour Papert’s Vision For Learning

Mitch Resnick explains how Papert’s ideas informed his thinking about children, learning and technology forever.
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Helping libraries keep pace with the demands of the digital age

The MIT Media Lab | $250,000 | To build a library residency program in which librarians and Media Lab technologists can collaborate
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WordSense

As more powerful and spatially aware Augmented Reality devices become available, we can leverage the user’s context to embed reality with...
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Advancing Wellbeing

Advancing Wellbeing
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Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
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Getting Started with Scratch

Every day, young people around the world use the Scratch programming language to create and share thousands of interactive projects on th...
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Scratch Memories

Scratch Memories is a dynamically generated, personalized web-based visualization that celebrates a Scratcher’s journey by highlighting t...
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Microworlds

The MIT Scratch Team is exploring ways to make it easier for newcomers to get started creating with coding. We are designing "microworlds...
Center for Mobile Learning
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Code Next

Code Next
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Foundations : Design of Codified Curricula in Coding, Design, Fabrication, Games, Music, Media, etc.

Foundations (2015 - 2016): The Year 1 MIT/Google collaboration program has Pilot Labs in NYC and Oakland. In the Labs, we introduce a coh...
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Team Edge: Design of Codified Curricula in Coding, Design, Fabrication, Games, Engineering, etc.

Team Edge (2016 - 2017): The Year 2 MIT/Google Collaboration. For it, we design and author Curricula and Learning Activities in the follo...
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Personal Research Projects

Our Personal Research Projects group is dedicated to the closure of the digital and educational divides and gaps as they effect the under...
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Creative Learning in Brazil / Aprendizagem Criativa no Brasil

The Lemann Creative Learning Program is a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab and the Lemann Foundation to foster creative learning i...
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NeverMind: Using AR for Memorization

NeverMind is an interface and application designed to support human memory. We combine the memory palace memorization method with augment...
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Collective Learning in China's Regional Economic Development

Industrial development is the process by which economies learn how to produce new products and services. But how do economies learn? And ...
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Collective Learning in China's Regional Economic Development

Jian Gao, Bogang Jun, Alex Pentland, Tao Zhou, and Cesar A. Hidalgo. Collective Learning in China's Regional Economic Development. arXiv:1703.01369, 2017.
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Collective Learning in China's Regional Economic Development

Jian Gao, Bogang Jun, Alex Pentland, Tao Zhou, and Cesar A. Hidalgo. Collective Learning in China's Regional Economic Development. arXiv:1703.01369, 2017.
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Non-financial hurdles for human capital accumulation: Landown- ership in Korea under Japanese rule

Jun, Bogang, and Tai-Yoo Kim. "Non-financial hurdles for human capital accumulation: landownership in Korea under Japanese rule." Cliometrica 11.1 (2017): 63-92.
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Education, structural change and economic development

Saviotti, Pier Paolo, Andreas Pyka, and Bogang Jun. "Education, structural change and economic development." Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 38 (2016): 55-68.
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The LearningGraph

Content and curriculum lie at the heart of every educational system, learning environment, and learning technology. Yet the infrastructur...
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Scratch Extensions

The Scratch extension system enables anyone to extend the Scratch programming language through custom programming blocks written in JavaS...
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Kids can pick up attitude from robots they play and learn with

Artificial intelligence has a new job: setting a good example for your kids. It seems that children’s behaviour can be influenced by the ...
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"Paint with only water first."

Creating tangible materials to break down complex computer science ideas for young children.
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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.
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Play Analytics

Analyzing detailed data from SpeechBlocks to understand how kids engage with constructionist literacy learning technologies, with th...
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NeverMind: Using Augmented Reality for Memorization

Oscar Rosello, Marc Exposito, and Pattie Maes. 2016. NeverMind: Using Augmented Reality for Memorization. In Proceedings of the 29th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '16 Adjunct). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 215-216.
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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.
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They’re having fun… but are they learning?

How can you measure the learning outcomes of play? This has frustrated professionals in the field of early childhood education for years.
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Peer 2 Peer University

Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) has developed "learning circles," a model for facilitating in-person study groups at community libraries. A...
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Media Lab Virtual Visit

Media Lab Virtual Visit is intended to open up the doors of the Media Lab to people from all around the world. The visit is hosted on the...
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Unhangout

Unhangout is an open source platform for running large-scale, participant-driven events online.Each event has a landing page, which we ca...