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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…
Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the U.S. and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang…
Dreaming through Code Designing creative learning workshops for local organizations committed to introducing technology to kids in a n…
Facilitating opportunities for non-dominant youth to learn how to use technology as a tool to engage civically and create positive change i…
Drawing++ Workshop: using drawing as a means of understanding computationIn this workshop participants explore computational concepts …
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…
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…
InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a thir…
Find out more about the new version of the system, "The Thinking Cap 2.0" here.Peoples' mindsets, meaning their beliefs about their own int…
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
The Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal is a research project that focuses on the design and fabrication of a pavilion that will genera…
Therms-Up! is a DIY method of creating inflatables and prototyping interactive materials from wasted thermoplastic bags that easily found a…
This video interview is a part of Media Lab X.0: Anthology of Tomorrows.In 2020, first-year PhD students at the MIT Media Lab were tas…
What Is TDI?Targeted Dream Incubation is a method for guiding dreams towards specific themes. It is a proposal both magnetic and unlik…
Analyzing detailed data from SpeechBlocks to understand how kids engage with constructionist literacy learning technologies, with the …
Unbreakout (beta) is a tool for participatory Zoom breakout rooms. Let your meeting attendees propose their own breakout discussion topics …
Judging by the work of its alumni and faculty, MIT is an amazing place for learning. When I first arrived on campus, I wanted to better und…
Unhangout is an open source platform for running large-scale, participant-driven events online.Each event has a landing page, which we call…
Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…
StoryBlocks aims to promote creative expression, literacy development, and social-emotional development through storytelling for children a…
Developed as part of the Playful Words research project at the MIT Media Lab's Laboratory for Social Machines, Learning Loops aims to make …
SpeechBlocks is a medium that allows children (4-5 years old) to engage in open-ended play with writing. They can build arbitrary compositi…
The Mediated Atmosphere project envisions a smart office that is capable of dynamically transforming itself to enhance occupants' work expe…
Homes and offices are being filled with sensor networks to answer specific queries and solve pre-determined problems, but no comprehensive …
Policymakers, practitioners, and researchers are grappling with some herculean questions regarding kids' safety online. Homemade slime…
Doodle Bot is a robot-based creative AI learning platform for high school students. It consists of an introduction to robotics, hardware, s…
Young Learner's Companion Developing robots' growth mindset and pro-curious behavior and fostering the same in young learners via long…
How do we raise conscientious consumers and designers of AI?Children today live in the age of artificial intelligence. On average, US child…
Could a social robot collaboratively exchange stories with children as a peer and help improve their linguistic and storytelling skills? We…
The Jibo Research Platform is an in-the-field deployable Social Robotics experimentation and data collection infrastructure. Built upon the…
Tega is a new robot platform designed to support long-term, in-home interactions with children, with applications in early-literacy educati…
Circuit Stickers is a toolkit for crafting electronics using flexible and sticky electronic pieces. These stickers are created by printing …
INSPIRE: Intelligence Never Seeks Perfection, Instead Requires Effort.Stories help us expand our sense of what's possible: by hearing from …
The RGBox is an experimental game to teach fundamentals of additive color mixing theory. As opposed to the behavior of pigments that g…
Scratch BlockArt is an experimental visualization tool designed to let children discover their own computational patterns on Scratch. Exist…
Understanding social-emotional behaviors in storytelling interactions plays a critical role in the development of interactive and education…
Often, we neglect to see the city as living, complex, and dynamic. However, shrouded by its masses of concrete and steel lie unique ecosyst…
NeverMind is an interface and application designed to support human memory. We combine the memory palace memorization method with augmented…
Mathematical experiences are intrinsic to our everyday lives, yet mathematics education is mostly confined to textbooks. Seymour Papert use…
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 schoo…
Cognimates is a platform where parents and children (7-10 years old) participate in creative programming activities in which they lea…
EEEeb Spring 2019: Urban OceansMarch 24, April 7 and 21, May 19, June 2 To register, please visit this link.…
Virtual reality can help realize mediated social experiences where we interact as richly with those around the world as we do with those in…
Scratch Memories is a web-based visualization tool that empowers children to celebrate and reflect on their creative journey with Scratch.&…
View the main City Science Andorra project profile.
Bricoleur allows makers of all ages to explore the creative possibilities of video and audio as programmable media on mobile devices. Using…
View the main City Science Andorra project profile.The MIT Media Lab's City Science research group, the University of Andorra, and national…
The Montessori Method is an educational approach that emphasizes independence and respect for a child's natural development process. Montes…
While there are a number of literacy technology solutions developed for individuals, the role of social—or networked—literacy learning is l…
Responsive Science is a way of conducting research that invites openness and community involvement from the earliest stages of each project…
Foundations (2015 - 2016): The Year 1 MIT/Google collaboration program has Pilot Labs in NYC and Oakland. In the Labs, we introduce a cohor…
Team Edge (2016 - 2017): The Year 2 MIT/Google Collaboration. For it, we design and author Curricula and Learning Activities in the followi…
Our Personal Research Projects group is dedicated to the closure of the digital and educational divides and gaps as they effect the underse…
ShapeBlocks is a play analytics observatory that tracks, remembers, and aids players in building traditional LEGO-style structures. As play…