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Little Language Models is a co-creative AI education microworld for children (ages 8–16) within our CoCo platform. It is especially de…
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Fostering students’ interest in learning has many positive downstream effects. It can make students more persistent and impact student…
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Projects related to the theme of how digital systems may support attention, memory, and learning.
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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…
An annual celebration of learning, sharing, making, creating, and debating at the MIT Media Lab.
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The Brazilian Creative Learning Network (BCLN -- https://aprendizagemcriativa.org/) is a grassroots movement that promotes and supports the…
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We take as a starting point for our work the recent scholarship by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice, in which she described design jus…
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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…
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…
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Zero Robotics is an educational program that hosts tournaments to teach middle and high school students to write code and program with robo…
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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…
Advancements in machine learning have recently enabled the hyper-realistic synthesis of prose, images, audio and video data, in what is ref…
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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…
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Analyzing detailed data from SpeechBlocks to understand how kids engage with constructionist literacy learning technologies, with the …
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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