Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...

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

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.The MIT Media Lab's City Science research group, the University of Andorra, and nation...

OverviewWe have created a new customizable, multi-user research-through-play platform designed to facilitate social skill development for...

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.

Could a social robot collaboratively exchange stories with children as a peer and help improve their linguistic and storytelling skills? ...

The Clubhouse provides a creative and safe out-of-school learning environment where young people from underserved communities around the ...

SPRING is a custom-built hardware and software platform for children with neuro-differences. The system automates data acquisition, optim...

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

Understanding social-emotional behaviors in storytelling interactions plays a critical role in the development of interactive and educati...

Prior research with preschool children has established that book reading, especially when children are encouraged to actively process the...

How can we add the missing "T" and "E" in preschool STEAM education?

ScratchBit is an effort to enable children to create more seamlessly in both the physical and digital world by creating a dedicated physi...

Scratch Memories is a web-based visualization tool that empowers children to celebrate and reflect on their creative journey with Scratch...

SpeechBlocks is a smartphone app that allows children to explore spelling principles in an open-ended way. Children rearrange words on th...

Microbes are the foundation upon which life on Earth depends: they set the boundaries of habitability for all plants and animals and crea...

Analyzing detailed data from SpeechBlocks to understand how kids engage with constructionist literacy learning technologies, with th...

While there are a number of literacy technology solutions developed for individuals, the role of social—or networked—literacy learning is...

Understanding Urban OceansPresently, over 40% of the world’s population lives within 100 kilometers of the coastline, often in seaside me...

NeverMind is an interface and application designed to support human memory. We combine the memory palace memorization method with augment...

Learning Creative Learning is an online course that introduces ideas and strategies for supporting creative learning. The course engages ...

Inertia is a platform for exploring physical interactions between real active agents and virtual elements in an augmented reality environ...

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

EEEeb Spring 2018: April 15,  29; May 13, 27; June 3. To register, please visit this link.Sponsored and run by members of ...

Today's students have grown up in a world of rapidly evolving technology, and they are natural-born experimenters, programmers, and tinke...

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

The Lemann Creative Learning Program is a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab and the Lemann Foundation to foster creative learning i...

Creating long-term interpersonal interaction and shared experiences with social robots. Many of our current projects explore the use of s...

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

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

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

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 ...

Despite of gazillions of leadership programs across university campuses and organizations, we increasingly live in an era of leadership d...

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

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...

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

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

Foundations (2015 - 2016): The Year 1 MIT/Google collaboration program has Pilot Labs in NYC and Oakland. In the Labs, we introduce a coh...

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

Our Personal Research Projects group is dedicated to the closure of the digital and educational divides and gaps as they effect the under...

The Scratch extension system enables anyone to extend the Scratch programming language through custom programming blocks written in JavaS...

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

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...

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

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 ...

ScratchJr makes coding accessible to younger children (ages 5-7), enabling them to program their own interactive stories, games, and anim...

Since the release of Scratch in 2007, young people around the world have programmed and shared more than 15 million Scratch projects . Th...

Inspired by the simplicity and aesthetics of traditional Montessori education, these materials live within and extend this pedagogy to ad...

A design project done in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab and the Laboratorio para la Ciudad (Laboratory for the City), Mexico City's...

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 o...

As part of our motivation to expand the classic Montessori curriculum and to address contemporary proficiencies, we are working closely w...