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Scratch is a programming language and online community that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, games, and animations—a...
EEEeb Spring 2019: Urban OceansMarch 24, April 7 and 21, May 19, June 2 To register, please visit this lin...
Virtual reality can help realize mediated social experiences where we interact as richly with those around the world as we do with those ...
The Lemann Creative Learning Program is a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab and the Lemann Foundation to foster creative learning i...
Scratch BlockArt is an experimental visualization tool designed to let children discover their own computational patterns on Scratch. Exi...
Scratch Memories is a web-based visualization tool that empowers children to celebrate and reflect on their creative journey with Scratch...
Teen Summit is a biennial week-long Youth Leadership event that brings Clubhouse youth together from each of the 100 Clubhouses internati...
ScratchBit is an effort to enable children to create more seamlessly in both the physical and digital world by creating a dedicated physi...
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. Usi...
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 ...
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While there are a number of literacy technology solutions developed for individuals, the role of social—or networked—literacy learning is...
Inertia is a platform for exploring physical interactions between real active agents and virtual elements in an augmented reality environ...
Tega is a new robot platform designed to support long-term, in-home interactions with children, with applications in early-literacy educa...
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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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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...
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Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) has developed "learning circles," a model for facilitating in-person study groups at community libraries. A...
Unhangout is an open source platform for running large-scale, participant-driven events online.Each event has a landing page, which we ca...
Circuit Stickers is a toolkit for crafting electronics using flexible and sticky electronic pieces. These stickers are created by printin...
ScratchJr makes coding accessible to younger children (ages 5-7), enabling them to program their own interactive stories, games, and anim...
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ShapeBlocks is a play analytics observatory that tracks, remembers, and aids players in building traditional LEGO-style structures. As pl...
Inspired by the simplicity and aesthetics of traditional Montessori education, these materials live within and extend this pedagogy to ad...
Wildflower is an open-source approach to Montessori learning. Its aim is to be an experiment in a new learning environment, blurring the ...
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...