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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

#robotics #design #social networks +57 more
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences

#design #human-computer interaction #art +23 more
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LEGO Wayfinder

The LEGO Wayfinder project combines LEGO, robotics, and seawater into a playground of project-based learning and citizen science for budd...

in Open Ocean · ML Learning
Katy Croff Bell · Jennifer Chow +3 more
#robotics #environment #kids +5 more
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ML Learning

ML Learning

#design #virtual reality #cognition +18 more
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Learning Creative Learning

Learning Creative Learning is an online course and community of educators, designers, technologists, and tinkerers exploring creative lea...

in ML Learning · Lifelong Kindergarten
Mitchel Resnick · Natalie Rusk +15 more
#design #learning #makers
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Open Agriculture (OpenAg)

Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)

#robotics #design #agriculture +21 more
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Mekatilili Fellowship Program

Mekatilili is a learning initiative that provides a platform for African youth to enhance technical skills through creative learning...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Marian Muthui · Juliet Wanyiri +1 more
#design #learning #makers +3 more
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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...

in ML Learning
Lydia Guterman · Katherine McConachie +3 more
#data #learning #makers +2 more
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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...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Mitchel Resnick · Natalie Rusk +31 more
#design #art #gaming +5 more
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Object-Based Media

Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies

#robotics #design #virtual reality +47 more
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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change

#robotics #design #social networks +47 more
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The Seeds That Seymour Sowed

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

Feb. 3, 2017
in Lifelong Kindergarten
#kids #learning #makers
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Cognimates: Collaborative creative learning with embodied intelligent agents

Cognimates is a platform where parents and children (7-10 years old) participate in creative programming activities in which they l...

in Personal Robots
Stefania Druga · Cynthia Breazeal
#human-computer interaction #cognition #open source +2 more
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Code Next

Code Next : Cultural Resonation

#design #kids #learning +2 more
Project Research

Clubhouse Teen Summit

Teen Summit is a biennial week-long Youth Leadership event that brings Clubhouse youth together from each of the 100 Clubhouses internati...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Jaleesa Trapp · Mitchel Resnick +1 more
#learning #makers
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Scratch Day

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 ...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Champika Fernando · Mitchel Resnick +3 more
#gaming #kids #learning +1 more
Article Research

Meet the latest unicorn: Formlabs, a 3D printing startup founded by three young MIT grads

Media Lab spinoff Formlabs has become a unicorn.

via Forbes · Aug. 1, 2018
in Center for Bits and Atoms · Object-Based Media · Fluid Interfaces
#manufacturing #3d printing #makers
Post Research

An Exchange Program for Public Librarians

Media Lab researchers are teaming up with public librarians to design new projects and programs for libraries.

Feb. 16, 2018
in ML Learning
#learning #makers
Article Research

Grad Life: How to make almost anything better

How to Make (almost) Anything is a community as much as it is a class.

via Slice of MIT · Feb. 26, 2018
in Object-Based Media
#music #makers
Article Research

Hacking in a factory

Lessons from a month in a Chinese knitting plant.

via MIT Technology Review · Feb. 21, 2018
in City Science
#manufacturing #sensors #makers
Project Research

Make the Breast Pump Not Suck Hackathon

In September 2014, 150 parents, engineers, designers, and healthcare practitioners gathered at the MIT Media Lab for the "Make the Breast...

in Civic Media
Ethan Zuckerman · Catherine D'Ignazio +4 more
#civic technology #consumer electronics #politics +2 more
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Start Making!

The Lifelong Kindergarten group is collaborating with the Museum of Science in Boston to develop materials and workshops that engage youn...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Mitchel Resnick · Chris Garrity +5 more
#design #kids #learning +1 more
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Spin

Spin is a photography turntable system that lets you capture how your DIY projects come together over time. With Spin, you can create GIF...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Mitchel Resnick · Tiffany Tseng
#makers
Archived
Archived
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Build in Progress

Build in Progress is a platform for sharing the story of your design process. With Build in Progress, makers document as they develop the...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Mitchel Resnick · Tiffany Tseng
#makers
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