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A paper introduces machine behavior: the interdisciplinary study of AI systems as a new class of actors with unique behavioral patterns.
Researchers set sights on a new standard for issuing, sharing, and verifying academic credentials.
The Intertidal Experimentation Workshop will take place September 29 and 30 (9am to 2pm) at the MIT Media Lab, open to students ages 8-14...
SPRING is a custom-built hardware and software platform for children with neuro-differences. The system automates data acquisition, optim...
NeverMind is an interface and application designed to support human memory. We combine the memory palace memorization method with augment...
Mathematical experiences are intrinsic to our everyday lives, yet mathematics education is mostly confined to textbooks. Seymour Papert u...
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...
Joi Ito considers how to best protect children online while encouraging them learn and grow.
StoryBlocks aims to promote creative expression, literacy development, and social-emotional development through storytelling for children...
The LEGO Papert Fellowships support three graduate students working at the intersection of creativity, play, learning, and new technology.
The ML Learning Initiative is built around a cohort of Learning Fellows from across the diverse research groups of the Media La...
How your company is killing innovation.
Seymour Papert’s ideas about children, computers, and learning inspired many.
Jin Joo Lee elaborates on her experiences studying in Shenzhen, China.
Today's students have grown up in a world of rapidly evolving technology, and they are natural-born experimenters, programmers, and tinke...
Thesis: Shruti Dhariwal. SCRATCH ♥ MEMORIES: Visualizations that empower children to celebrate and reflect on their creative trajectories. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. September 2018.
Revealing insights into the human condition and repairing brain disorders via novel tools for mapping and fixing brain computations
Foundation’s $28.6 million gift will fund science, innovation, and education to advance understanding, ability, and inclusion.
Mechanical mentors try to find their place as teacher’s helpers.
Joi Ito ponders the fearmongering and lack of rigorous research surrounding kids and screen time.
Avery Normandin and Devora Najjar are on a mission to build literacy and appreciation for urban ecology.
Prior research with preschool children has established that book reading, especially when children are encouraged to actively process the...
The project can determine what a person is thinking about and use the information to sort them into a Hogwarts house in one test.
Nataliya Kos'myna created a “Thinking Cap” that looks like the Sorting Hat from the popular “Harry Potter” series.
Mitch Resnick discusses the Lifelong Kindergarten group's goals with Scratch and other creativity-focused projects.
Mitch Resnick introduces his contribution to the LEGO Foundation’s new Creating Creators report.
In the inaugural episode of the TWiML & AI Podcast’s Black in AI series, PhD student Randi Williams discusses her work with PopBots.
“We need to make the rest of school, the rest of life, more like kindergarten,” Resnick said, “to playfully create things with each other.”
The next generation of Scratch expands how, what, and where kids can create with code.
Part of a curriculum on ethics in AI
Could a social robot collaboratively exchange stories with children as a peer and help improve their linguistic and storytelling skills? ...
Hae Won develops interactive social machines that deeply personalize to their users through long-term interaction.
Ollie Bray from the LEGO Foundation explains how Scratch supports the five characteristics of play that lead to deeper learning.
EEEeb Spring 2019: Urban OceansMarch 24, April 7 and 21, May 19, June 2 To register, please visit this lin...
We learn best when we are pursuing our passion and working with others in a project-based environment with a playful approach.
Much has changed since we introduced the first generation of our Scratch programming language and online community, back in 2007.
Creating sociotechnical systems that shape our urban environments
Virtual reality can help realize mediated social experiences where we interact as richly with those around the world as we do with those ...
Careers with STEM caught up with Mitch Resnick, the inventor of Scratch, in a wide-ranging Q&A.
The Lemann Creative Learning Program is a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab and the Lemann Foundation to foster creative learning i...
Code Next : Cultural Resonation
MIT Libraries and MIT Media Lab collaborate on Public Library Innovation Exchange
Our new cohort is the most diverse yet—bringing together graduate students from eight Media Lab research groups.
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...
The Media Lab is thrilled to announce our inaugural cohort of Learning Innovation fellows for the 2016–2017 academic year.
Welcoming three LEGO Papert Fellows and six Learning Innovation Fellows to our new cohort
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...
A design project done in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab and the Laboratorio para la Ciudad (Laboratory for the City), Mexico City's...
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 ...
HyperCubes is an augmented reality platform to help children understand computational concepts drawn from their physical surroundings, fr...
APOPS was presented at the Connected Learning Summit at the MIT Media Lab in Aug 2018. The slides from that presentation can be found below.
Mina Khan, Fernando Trujano, Pattie Maes, "Mathland: Constructionist Mathematical Learning in the Real World Using Immersive Mixed Reality" International Conference on Immersive Learning
MIT designers explain their philosophy in a new book, “Resonant Games.”
Children are using voice-activated technology at far younger ages than other devices, but some parents worry they’re picking up rude habits
Parental involvement is very important for guiding children’s interactions with smart technologies, says Stefania Druga.
Lifelong Kindergarten student Jaleesa Trapp shares her experience with the Clubhouse Network Teen Summit.
As more powerful and spatially aware Augmented Reality devices become available, we can leverage the user’s context to embed reality with...
Johnson, K.T., Ferguson, C.S., Picard, R.W., "Multi-SPRING: Facilitating Social Interaction through a Customizable, Multimodal Learning Platform," International Society for Autism Research (INSAR), Rotterdam, Netherlands, May 2018.
Johnson, K.T. and Picard, R.W. "Customizable, Interactive Toy Platform to Enable Motivation-Driven Cognitive and Physical Development in Children Diagnosed with Autism or Developmental Disorders," International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR), Baltimore, Maryland, May 2016.