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Advancing wellbeing using new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Platform for exploring physical interactions between real active agents and virtual elements on an Augmented Reality environment. The use...
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Mathematical experiences are intrinsic to our everyday lives, yet mathematics education is mostly confined to textbooks. Seymour Papert u...
Inventing the next-generation mobile device—highly personalized, wearable, and immersive—to support our unique needs and goals
EEEeb Spring 2018: April 15, 29; May 13, 27; June 3. To register, please visit this link.Sponsored and run by members of ...
What counts here—first and last—is not so-called knowledge of so-called facts, but vision—seeing. Seeing here implies Schauen [to see] (a...
Open Ocean
Today's students have grown up in a world of rapidly evolving technology, and they are natural-born experimenters, programmers, and tinke...
ML Learning
Creating technology for social change
View the main City Science Andorra project profile.
ScratchBit is an effort to enable children to create more seamlessly in both the physical and digital world by creating a dedicated physi...
Media Lab researchers are teaming up with public librarians to design new projects and programs for libraries.
Advancing Wellbeing
Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers and Play has been selected for a 2018 PROSE Award.
For the interested reader:If you'd like to learn more about the topics covered in my post, Making new (robot) friends: Understandin...
“My nomination for the greatest invention of the previous thousand years? Kindergarten.”
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
How to distill meaning from complex everyday experiences.
Tega is a new robot platform designed to support long-term, in-home interactions with children, with applications in early-literacy educa...
Could a social robot collaboratively exchange stories with children as a peer and help improve their linguistic and storytelling skills? ...
Meet Tega—one of the newest creations from the Personal Robots Group (PRG), led at the MIT Media Lab by associate professor of ...
The Lemann Creative Learning Program is a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab and the Lemann Foundation to foster creative learning i...
D’Ignazio, C., & Bhargava, R. (2015). Approaches to Building Big Data Literacy. In Bloomberg Data for Good Exchange 2015. New York, NY, USA.
Scratch Memories is a dynamically generated, personalized web-based visualization that celebrates a Scratcher’s journey by highlighting t...
SPRING is a custom-built hardware and software platform for children with neuro-differences. The system automates data acquisition, optim...
Creating long-term interpersonal interaction and shared experiences with social robots. Many of our current projects explore the use of s...
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the US and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang...
Transforming data into knowledge
They are reading to kids, singing lullabies to them and even taking naps with them. Artificial Intelligence (AI) toys are coming into our...
Scratch is a programming language and online community that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, games, and animations–a...
It’s cute when a kid asks, “Alexa, did you farted?,” but as the realm of smart technology quickly evolves from household voice assistants...
When I brought the robot home from the Apple Store, I knew I was inviting a new kind of strangeness into our lives. My wife worried ...
How can we add the missing 'T' and 'E' in preschool STEAM education?
Resnick, Mitchel. Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity Through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play. MIT Press, 2017.
Ho, P. H., Miller, G. A., Wang M. Y., Haleftiras, N., Zuckerman, E. 2017. Mission Wildlife: An Augmented Reality Approach to Engaging People About Threats to Endangered Species at a Zoo. In proceedings of Unobtrusive User Experiences with Technology in Nature (NatureCHI'17) at the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI'17).
At Computer Clubhouse after-school centers, young people (ages 10-18) from low-income communities learn to express themselves creatively ...
Learning Creative Learning is an online course that introduces ideas and strategies for supporting creative learning. The course engages ...
On Wednesday, October 18, a team from the Media Lab’s Lifelong Kindergarten group is launching a new, experimental online course: Learnin...
NeverMind is an interface and application designed to support human memory. We combine the memory palace memorization method with augment...
Lifelong KindergartenCultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play, by Mitchel ResnickForeword by Ken Robin...
Code Next : Cultural Resonation
To engage all learners in physical tinkering, we must design more ways to tinker with electronics beyond the computer science curriculum.
Networked Playscapes re-imagines outdoor play by merging the flexibility of the digital world with the tangible, sensorial properties of ...
Mitchel Resnick is one of the most humane, accomplished and prolific creators of educational technology in the world, one of the co-creat...
Public libraries and the MIT Media Lab are kindred spirits. Together, we hope to design new programs for libraries across the U.S.
As more powerful and spatially aware Augmented Reality devices become available, we can leverage the user’s context to embed reality with...
Seamlessly blend what you live with what you learn: mixed reality as a platform for language- learning “serendipitously in the wild."
When Mitch Resnick was growing up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, he and his little brother were always making up new games. For example,...
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...
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 ...
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.
Exploring evolutionary and ecological engineering
Welcoming three LEGO Papert Fellows and six Learning Innovation Fellows to our new cohort
As the global spotlight falls on the ongoing refugee crisis in Syria and other Middle East regions, among its various impacts is the thre...
Prior research with preschool children has established that book reading, especially when children are encouraged to actively process the...
Responsive Science is a way of conducting research that invites openness and community involvement from the earliest stages of each proje...
We support computer scientists and engineers from the Middle East to create technologies for refugee learners. The Refugee Learning ...
To learn more about our lab's learning project, please check out: http://playfulwords.org/
A new type of leadership development for the social sector.
Despite of gazillions of leadership programs across university campuses and organizations, we increasingly live in an era of leadership d...
Understanding children's relationships with social robots