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Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
Full paper (open access)Link to videoNeuroChat is a neuroadaptive AI tutor that combines generative AI with real-time EEG data to create a …
Projects related to the theme of how digital systems may support attention, memory, and learning.
CoCo is a new live co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in both physical and remote set…
The Jibo Research Platform is an in-the-field deployable Social Robotics experimentation and data collection infrastructure. Built upon the…
Doodlebot is a robot-based creative AI learning platform for high school students. It consists of an introduction to robotics, hardware, so…
We build technologies that interface with the sleeping mind. We track different sleep-stages using brain activity, muscle tensio…
Targeted dream incubation (TDI) is a methodology for guiding (or “incubating”) dreams towards specific themes. Please read the FAQ below to…
An annual celebration of learning, sharing, making, creating, and debating at the MIT Media Lab.
This project is no longer active, but has been rolled over into MIT RAISE and Day of AI's free curriculum for ages 11 to 18.How to Train Yo…
The Brazilian Creative Learning Network (BCLN) is a grassroots movement that promotes and supports the implementation of playful, creative,…
Join MIT Professor Mitchel Resnick of the Lifelong Kindergarten research group to explore new technologies, activities, and strategies for …
An estimated 20-48% of youth in the United States have been exposed to multiple types of trauma in their childhood. This developmental trau…
OctoStudio is available for free at octostudio.orgOctoStudio is a free creative coding app that lets you create animations, games, and…
The underrepresentation of minoritized groups, particularly African Americans, is the longstanding reality of computing fields. Computing h…
Advancements in machine learning have recently enabled the hyper-realistic synthesis of prose, images, audio and video data, in what is ref…
Little Language Models is a co-creative AI education microworld for children (ages 8–16) within the CoCo platform. It is especially de…
Zero Robotics is an educational program that hosts tournaments to teach middle and high school students to write code and program with robo…
There are currently UROP openings for this project. Website of the project: https://www.neurafutures.com NeuraFutures …
Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…
My name is Raechel Walker. I'm a PhD student in the Personal Robots group. Here is a short description of my Data Activism Program:The Data…
This project aimed at enhancing the social-emotional and educational experiences of Arabic-speaking refugee children. The project leverages…
Children today are more digitally connected than ever before, with increasing exposure to tablets, social media, and smartphones. As techno…
Fostering students' interests in learning is considered to have many positive downstream effects. Large language models have opened up new …
App Inventor is an intuitive, visual programming environment that allows everyone, even those with no prior coding experience, to build ful…
An essential element of K-12 AI literacy is educating learners about the ethical and societal implications of AI systems. Previous work in …
AbstractDespite significant historical progress, discrimination and social stigma continue to impact the lives of LGBTQIA+ individuals. The…
Fostering students’ interest in learning has many positive downstream effects. It can make students more persistent and impact student…
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…
Perceptual illusions have the power to change our abilities and behaviours. Prior research in virtual reality (VR) has shown that transport…
InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a thir…
Can computer graphics algorithms be taught through drawing?In this prototypical activity book, we present the steps of four computer graphi…
A Distance Learning Model for Global Laboratory-Based Synthetic Biology Education Synthetic Biology ( SynBio) tools hold the…
We take as a starting point for our work the recent scholarship by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice, in which she described design jus…
The Clubhouse provides a creative and safe out-of-school learning environment where young people from underserved communities around the wo…
Today's children will live in a world saturated with artificial intelligence. Understanding the key idea behind the functioning of intellig…
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…
Social robots equipped with AI and designed with users’ social, emotional, and relational interactions in mind are increasingly being highl…
This research presents the results of a study with 134 participants to explore the effects of learning from an AI-generated virtual in…
Facilitating opportunities for non-dominant youth to learn how to use technology as a tool to engage civically and create positive change i…
As the presence of artificial intelligence expands significantly in children’s lives of learning and play, it is critical that students lea…
Parents often select schools by relying on subjective assessments shared by other parents—which are increasingly becoming available on scho…
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…
Analyzing detailed data from SpeechBlocks to understand how kids engage with constructionist literacy learning technologies, with the …
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…
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…
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…