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Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
The Clubhouse provides a creative and safe out-of-school learning environment where young people from underserved communities around the wo…
The Lemann Creative Learning Program is a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab and the Lemann Foundation to foster creative learning in …
Learning Creative Learning is an online course and community of educators, designers, technologists, and tinkerers exploring creative learn…
Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio
Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
Enhancing human physical capability
Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the U.S. and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang…
The Panther network was instrumental in helping Lina Henriquez obtain and thrive in the MIT summer program.
Space Exploration Initiative
Since the release of Scratch in 2007, young people around the world have programmed and shared more than 15 million Scratch projects . The …
Teen Summit is a biennial week-long Youth Leadership event that brings Clubhouse youth together from each of the 100 Clubhouses internation…
The Suggestion Box offers schools a toolkit for framing decisions in two simple sentences and using these sentences to involve teachers, st…
Every day, young people around the world use the Scratch programming language to create and share thousands of interactive projects on the …
The Scratch extension system enables anyone to extend the Scratch programming language through custom programming blocks written in JavaScr…
Scratch Day (day.scratch.mit.edu) is a network of face-to-face local gatherings, on the same day in all parts of the world, where people ca…
The MIT Scratch Team is exploring ways to make it easier for newcomers to get started creating with coding. We are designing "microworlds"—…
ScratchJr makes coding accessible to younger children (ages 5-7), enabling them to program their own interactive stories, games, and animat…
Scratch in Practice (SiP) shares stories, strategies, and resources from the Scratch Team and educators around the world. The SiP website f…
ScratchBit is an effort to enable children to create more seamlessly in both the physical and digital world by creating a dedicated physica…
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Mayor’s youth employment program brought local high schoolers to MIT this summer.
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
MIT Center for Constructive Communication
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
Looking beyond smart cities
Williams, R., Ali, S., Devasia, N. et al. AI + Ethics Curricula for Middle School Youth: Lessons Learned from Three Project-Based Curricula. Int J Artif Intell Educ (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-022-00298-y
Dreaming through Code Designing creative learning workshops for local organizations committed to introducing technology to kids in a n…
ML Learning
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Transforming data into knowledge
Open Ocean
Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
Creating technology for social change
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
Inspired by the simplicity and aesthetics of traditional Montessori education, these materials live within and extend this pedagogy to addr…
Wildflower is an open-source approach to Montessori learning. Its aim is to be an experiment in a new learning environment, blurring the bo…
As part of our motivation to expand the classic Montessori curriculum and to address contemporary proficiencies, we are working closely wit…
The Democratizing Science project is opening up MIT Media Lab research in the form of STEAM learning programs in three elemental …
Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) has developed "learning circles," a model for facilitating in-person study groups at community libraries. Aim…
Inertia is a platform for exploring physical interactions between real active agents and virtual elements in an augmented reality environme…
Struggling to build your organization's ability to work with data? Use our hands-on learning program to kickstart your data culture.datacul…
As part of our larger effort to build out a suite of tools for community organizers, we are helping to build their capacity to do their own…
Thousands of children participate in MIT-developed artificial intelligence curriculum.
Facilitating opportunities for non-dominant youth to learn how to use technology as a tool to engage civically and create positive change i…
The Project on Affinities and Language (PAL) is designed to help us understand what happens in a child’s brain when they engage with their …
SPRING is a custom-built hardware and software platform for children with neuro-differences. The system automates data acquisition, optimiz…
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…
Between Worlds was a day-long learning event that explored new methods of teaching art and design in today's hybrid and digital world.
Drawing++ Workshop: using drawing as a means of understanding computationIn this workshop participants explore computational concepts …
Social robotics pioneer Prof. Cynthia Breazeal discusses artificial intelligence in our lives, digital citizenship, and AI education for all
The Public Library Innovation Exchange (PLIX) is a project of the Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio, that teams up the MIT Media Lab …
An annual celebration of learning, sharing, making, creating, and debating at the MIT Media Lab.
As the presence of artificial intelligence expands significantly in children’s lives of learning and play, it is critical that students lea…
Advancements in machine learning have recently enabled the hyper-realistic synthesis of prose, images, audio and video data, in what is ref…
RAISE
How to Train Your Robot is a curriculum for students in 5-8th grade to explore artificial intelligence and ethics. In this course, students…
Parents often select schools by relying on subjective assessments shared by other parents—which are increasingly becoming available on scho…
Graduate student Lucy Du designs novel prosthetics and seeks to inspire others to pursue engineering.
InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a thir…
Artificial intelligence is top-of-mind as Governor Baker, President Reif encourage students to “see yourself in STEM.”