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2018 marks the second cohort of the LEGO Papert Fellowship program, which honors the legacy of educational-technology pioneer Seymour Papert
The LEGO Papert Fellowships support three graduate students working at the intersection of creativity, play, learning, and new technology.
The new LEGO Papert Fellows will spend one week at LEGO headquarters in Denmark to share ideas and collaborate on projects.
Our new cohort is the most diverse yet—bringing together graduate students from eight Media Lab research groups.
We understand that now, more than ever, the democratization of online learning is crucial to the success of students all around the world.
Policymakers, practitioners, and researchers are grappling with some herculean questions regarding kids' safety online. Homemade slime…
This Primary School AI curriculum introduces elementary school children to robotics and artificial intelligence. Throughout the curriculum,…
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 can we add the missing "T" and "E" in preschool STEAM education?
Microbes are the foundation upon which life on Earth depends: they set the boundaries of habitability for all plants and animals and create…
The ability to think and act creatively is now more important than ever before.
This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxCoeurdalene, an independent event.
Ethics Initiative
This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.Despite gazillions of lead…
How do we raise conscientious consumers and designers of AI?Children today live in the age of artificial intelligence. On average, US child…
A new curriculum has been designed by MIT researchers and collaborators to teach middle school students about artificial intelligence.
The following Media Lab students joined the MIT India Initiative in Mumbai for this workshop.
MIT Quest for Intelligence shares AI-focused UROP projects, including senior Nicole Thumma's work with the Personal Robots group.
Could a social robot collaboratively exchange stories with children as a peer and help improve their linguistic and storytelling skills? We…
The Brothers Brick looks back at the history of LEGO Education's collaboration with the Media Lab to launch LEGO Mindstorms in 1998.
Alum Marina Bers on Seymour Papert, STEM, Kibo, and Scratch Jr.
Can robots help teachers improve classroom learning?
The Jibo Research Platform is an in-the-field deployable Social Robotics experimentation and data collection infrastructure. Built upon the…
"I don’t think that AI will have fulfilled its full potential unless it can help us unlock human potential.”
Tega is a new robot platform designed to support long-term, in-home interactions with children, with applications in early-literacy educati…
Designed at MIT and tested by kids ages 9 through 14, it shows how exposing kids to technology fosters their interest in STEM.
MIT researchers and collaborators have developed an open-source curriculum to teach young students about ethics and artificial intelligence.
Labber Hae Won Park talks to NBC News Learn about how social robots can help children develop language skills.
Circuit Stickers is a toolkit for crafting electronics using flexible and sticky electronic pieces. These stickers are created by printing …
SuperMe features superheroes designed by Chicago Public School students
“To really understand curiosity, we need new metrics, or new ways of thinking, or both."
Promoters show off promising applications of the technology, but AI is not changing the world quite yet
INSPIRE: Intelligence Never Seeks Perfection, Instead Requires Effort.Stories help us expand our sense of what's possible: by hearing from …
We support computer scientists and engineers from the Middle East to create technologies for refugee learners. The Refugee Learning Ac…
Moinina David Sengeh, PhD ’16, is trying to bring innovation into “the heart of government.”
Our capacity to re-engineer the biological world raises questions that need answers before it gets too late
The PhD student and former high school teacher aims to study the ways young people of color interact with technology.
ML Learning head Philipp Schmidt talks about learning, innovation, and collaboration.
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…
José “Pepe“ Escamilla, from the Observatory of Educational Innovation at Tecnológico de Monterrey, talks to ML Learning head Philipp Schmidt
Creating long-term interpersonal interaction and shared experiences with social robots Many of our current projects explore the use of…
The new version of the popular free coding platform builds on a robust community of kid coders.
CE 2.0
Understanding social-emotional behaviors in storytelling interactions plays a critical role in the development of interactive and education…
A new curriculum that helps children understand how algorithms are designed will keep them safe and motivate them to help shape the future.
Blakeley Payne and Cynthia Breazeal discuss Blakeley’s open source AI curriculum for middle school students.
Advancing Wellbeing
How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.
My latest research in Cynthia Breazeal's Personal Robots group has been on relational technology.
Nataliya Kos’myna is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the MIT Media Lab, helping MITili evaluate the real-time biofeedback of learners
David Sun Kong discusses the mission of the Community Biotechnology Initiative on the Mass Cultural Council’s podcast.
A new type of leadership development for the social sector.
The basketball player discusses his new MIT Media Lab fellowship, and how he plans to use the platform to reform 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…
Through MIT App Inventor, Abelson aims to show children how they can use technology to shape their world.
Maybe we don’t need to look inside the black box after all. We just need to watch how machines behave, instead.
CIFAR Fellows Hugo Larochelle and Matthew Jackson argue for a new scientific discipline to study the broad effects of AI.
Nine universities in five countries are working together to create a shared infrastructure for digital academic credentials.
The articles I’ve chosen reflect my interests in preserving the open internet I grew up with (and on) for my daughter.
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. …
NeverMind is an interface and application designed to support human memory. We combine the memory palace memorization method with augmented…