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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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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
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Computer Clubhouse

At Computer Clubhouse after-school centers, young people (ages 10-18) from low-income communities learn to express themselves creatively ...
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Learning Creative Learning

Learning Creative Learning is an online course that introduces ideas and strategies for supporting creative learning. The course engages ...
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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: Learnin...
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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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SPRING: A Smart Platform for Research, Intervention, & Neurodevelopmental Growth

SPRING is a custom-built hardware and software platform for children with neuro-differences. The system automates data acquisition, optim...
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Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play

Lifelong KindergartenCultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play, by Mitchel ResnickForeword by Ken Robin...
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Code Next

Code Next : Cultural Resonation
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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...
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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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Engaging All Learners in Physical Tinkering

To engage all learners in physical tinkering, we must design more ways to tinker with electronics beyond the computer science curriculum.
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Networked Playscapes: Dig Deep

Networked Playscapes re-imagines outdoor play by merging the flexibility of the digital world with the tangible, sensorial properties of ...
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Open Ocean

Open Ocean
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Lifelong Kindergarten: how to learn like a kid, by the co-creator of Scratch

Mitchel Resnick is one of the most humane, accomplished and prolific creators of educational technology in the world, one of the co-creat...
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Future Storytelling
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Mathland: Play with Math in Mixed Reality

Mathematical experiences are intrinsic to our everyday lives, yet mathematics education is mostly confined to textbooks. Seymour Papert u...
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Fluid Interfaces

Inventing the next-generation mobile device: highly personalized, wearable, and immersive to support our unique needs and goals
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OpenAg EDU

Today's students have grown up in a world of rapidly evolving technology, and they are natural-born experimenters, programmers, and tinke...
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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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Introducing the Public Library Innovation Exchange (PLIX)

Public libraries and the MIT Media Lab are kindred spirits. Together, we hope to design new programs for libraries across the U.S.
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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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Social Machines

Understanding and empowering human networks
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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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Mixing Realities & Language Learning in the Wild

Seamlessly blend what you live with what you learn: mixed reality as a platform for language- learning “serendipitously in the wild."
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How to make every grade more like Kindergarten

When Mitch Resnick was growing up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, he and his little brother were always making up new games. For example,...
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MIT's Mitch Resnick on what ‘Toy Story’ gets wrong about the future of play

If you’ve ever seen the Toy Story movies, you may remember the neighbor kid, Sid. His room is presented in horror-movie fashion, with dim...
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Advancing Wellbeing

Advancing Wellbeing
Hundred Dollar Laptop
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1:1 Laptops: Learning with the Hundred-Dollar Laptop

Suppose that one could put a connected, portable computer into the hands of all the children of the world who lack access to the kind of ...
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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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Personalized Robot Storytelling Companion

Can social robots collaboratively exchange stories with children as a peer and help improve their linguistic and storytelling skills? Teg...
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Preschool Oriented Programming Toolkit

How can we add the missing 'T' and 'E' in preschool STEAM education?
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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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Meet the MIT Media Lab Learning Fellows

Welcoming three LEGO Papert Fellows and six Learning Innovation Fellows to our new cohort
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The Refugee Learning Accelerator Invites You To Ideate For Refugee Youth

As the global spotlight falls on the ongoing refugee crisis in Syria and other Middle East regions, among its various impacts is the thre...
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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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ML Learning

ML Learning
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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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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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Refugee Learning Accelerator

We support computer scientists and engineers from the Middle East to create technologies for refugee learners. The Refugee 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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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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Public Library Innovation Exchange

Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the US and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang...
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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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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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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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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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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...