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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +49 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Project Research

New Learning Materials for Computational Thinking

Inspired by the simplicity and aesthetics of traditional Montessori education, these materials live within and extend this pedagogy to ad...

in Social Computing
Sepandar Kamvar · Kimberly Smith
#learning
Archived
Project Research

Wildflower Montessori

Wildflower is an open-source approach to Montessori learning. Its aim is to be an experiment in a new learning environment, blurring the ...

in Social Computing
Sepandar Kamvar
#kids #learning
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Computational Scope and Sequence for a Montessori Learning Environment

As part of our motivation to expand the classic Montessori curriculum and to address contemporary proficiencies, we are working closely w...

in Social Computing
Sepandar Kamvar · Kimberly Smith +1 more
#learning
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Democratizing Science

The Democratizing Science project is opening up MIT Media Lab research in the form of STEAM learning programs in three elementa...

in ML Learning
Katherine McConachie
#learning
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Peer 2 Peer University

Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) has developed "learning circles," a model for facilitating in-person study groups at community libraries. A...

in ML Learning
J. Philipp Schmidt · Katherine McConachie
#learning
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Inertia

Inertia is a platform for exploring physical interactions between real active agents and virtual elements in an augmented reality environ...

in Living Mobile
Anna Fuste
#augmented reality #learning
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Data Culture Project

Struggling to build your organization's ability to work with data? Use our hands-on learning program to kickstart your data culture.datac...

in Civic Media
Rahul Bhargava
#data #learning
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Data Therapy

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...

in Civic Media
Ethan Zuckerman · Rahul Bhargava
#data #learning #data visualization
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Research
Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative

#robotics #design #virtual reality +65 more
Research
City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

#robotics #design #social networks +66 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Article Research

Inaugural Day of AI brings new digital literacy to classrooms worldwide

Thousands of children participate in MIT-developed artificial intelligence curriculum.

via MIT News · June 1, 2022
in RAISE
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +11 more
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion

#robotics #social networks #computer vision +44 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Computing for a Purpose

Facilitating opportunities for non-dominant youth to learn how to use technology as a tool to engage civically and create positive change...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Jaleesa Trapp · Cecilé Sadler
#learning #computer science
Research
Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Support

#robotics #design #virtual reality +36 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Project Research

PAL: Project on Affinities + Language

The Project on Affinities and Language (PAL) is designed to help us understand what happens in a child’s brain when they engage with thei...

in Affective Computing
Kristy Johnson
#learning #neurobiology #language learning +3 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

SPRING: A Smart Platform for Research, Intervention, and Neurodevelopmental Growth

SPRING is a custom-built hardware and software platform for children with neuro-differences. The system automates data acquisition, optim...

in Affective Computing · ML Learning
Rosalind W. Picard · Kristy Johnson
#robotics #cognition #data +7 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Creative Learning Design Tools

While text-editors (e.g. Google Docs, MS Word) might be useful for writing a lecture, they’re not an intuitive medium for designing exper...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Yusuf Ahmad
#design #kids #learning +3 more
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Archived
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge

#design #social networks #virtual reality +39 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Viral Communications

Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness

#design #computer vision #human-computer interaction +38 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +26 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks

#robotics #design #virtual reality +61 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Post Research

Between Worlds: How do we learn Art & Design in the Digital Age?

Between Worlds was a day-long learning event that explored new methods of teaching art and design in today's hybrid and digital world.

April 1, 2022
in Future Sketches
#design #art #learning +1 more
Project Research

Drawing++ Workshop

Drawing++ Workshop: using drawing as a means of understanding computationIn this workshop participants explore computational concept...

in Future Sketches
Zach Lieberman · Chelsi Cocking +1 more
#design #art #learning +2 more
Article Research

MIT Chalk Radio: AI Literacy for All with Prof. Cynthia Breazeal

Social robotics pioneer Prof. Cynthia Breazeal discusses artificial intelligence in our lives, digital citizenship, and AI education for all

via Chalk Radio podcast from MIT OpenCourseWare · March 30, 2022
in Personal Robots · RAISE
#robotics #artificial intelligence #learning +2 more
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Creative Cartography in Public Libraries: PLIX Spatial Poetry

The Public Library Innovation Exchange (PLIX) is a project of the Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio, that teams up the MIT Media La...

March 30, 2022
in Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio
#learning
Project Research

Festival of Learning

An annual celebration of learning, sharing, making, creating, and debating at the MIT Media Lab.

in Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio
Katherine McConachie · J. Philipp Schmidt +4 more
#learning
Project Research

Creative AI: A curriculum around creativity, generative AI, and ethics

As the presence of artificial intelligence expands significantly in children’s lives of learning and play, it is critical that students l...

in Personal Robots
Safinah Arshad Ali · Daniella DiPaola +1 more
#artificial intelligence #kids #learning +2 more
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Tangible Media

Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation

#robotics #design #virtual reality +50 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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MIT Center for Constructive Communication

MIT Center for Constructive Communication

#social networks #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +25 more
Project Research

AI-generated Characters for Learning and Wellbeing

Advancements in machine learning have recently enabled the hyper-realistic synthesis of prose, images, audio and video data, in what is r...

in Fluid Interfaces
Pat Pataranutaporn · Valdemar Danry +4 more
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #communications +2 more
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RAISE

RAISE

#robotics #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +10 more
Project Research

How to Train Your Robot

How to Train Your Robot is a curriculum for students in 5-8th grade to explore artificial intelligence and ethics. In this course, studen...

in Personal Robots
Blakeley H. Payne · Safinah Arshad Ali +3 more
#artificial intelligence #kids #learning +3 more
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +54 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks

#design #social networks #computer vision +50 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation

#multimodal representation #performance technologies #digital opera +54 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.

#robotics #design #virtual reality +63 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

School Reviews

Parents often select schools by relying on subjective assessments shared by other parents—which are increasingly becoming available on sc...

in Social Machines
Nabeel Gillani · Eric Chu +2 more
#kids #learning #machine learning +1 more
Article Research

Making her way through MIT

Graduate student Lucy Du designs novel prosthetics and seeks to inspire others to pursue engineering.

via MIT News · Dec. 7, 2021
in Biomechatronics
#robotics #bioengineering #learning +6 more
Project Research

Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams

InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a th...

in Civic Media · Fluid Interfaces · Personal Robots
Eyal Perry · Adam Haar Horowitz +5 more
#human-computer interaction #art #artificial intelligence +16 more
How buildings and cities can become more intelligently responsive to the needs and desires of their inhabitants.
#robotics #architecture #art +19 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Article Research

At Mass STEM Week kickoff, MIT RAISE announces Day of AI

Artificial intelligence is top-of-mind as Governor Baker, President Reif encourage students to “see yourself in STEM.”

via MIT News · Oct. 20, 2021
in Personal Robots · RAISE
#robotics #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +6 more
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Research
Open Ocean

Open Ocean

#robotics #virtual reality #art +32 more
Article Research

Are advertisers coming for your dreams?

"We can see the waves forming a tsunami that will come, but most people are just sleeping on a beach unaware"

via Science Magazine · June 11, 2021
in Fluid Interfaces
#cognition #learning #creativity +2 more
Archived
Project Research

Multi-SPRING

OverviewWe have created a new customizable, multi-user research-through-play platform designed to facilitate social skill development for...

in ML Learning · Affective Computing
Kristy Johnson · Rosalind W. Picard +1 more
#cognition #learning #wearable computing +4 more
Archived
Project Research

Thinking Cap

Find out more about the new version of the system, "The Thinking Cap 2.0" here.Peoples' mindsets, meaning their beliefs about their own i...

in Fluid Interfaces
Nataliya Kos'myna · Pattie Maes
#kids #learning #wearable computing +3 more
Post Research

Danielle Wood named as principal investigator (PI) for Zero Robotics

Under Dr. Wood's leadership, the program will move forward with the NASA Astrobee robotic system as its new in-space robotic platform.

Sept. 22, 2021
in Space Enabled
#robotics #learning #space +1 more
Article Research

Learning interventions for language and literacy

Building on research about deeper social-emotional engagement

via MIT Open Learning · Sept. 14, 2021
in Personal Robots
#kids #learning #language learning
Project Research

City Science Lab @ Andorra

Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...

in City Science
Maitane Iruretagoyena · Kent Larson +9 more
#design #architecture #data +15 more
Publication Research

Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play

Resnick, Mitchel. Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity Through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play. MIT Press, 2017.

Book, Aug. 2017
in Lifelong Kindergarten
#learning
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Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play

Lifelong KindergartenCultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play, by Mitchel ResnickForeword by Ken Robin...

Oct. 12, 2017
in ML Learning · Lifelong Kindergarten
#learning
Article Research

This Toronto-based nonprofit provides creative education to over 2,000 children in rural India

Co-founded by alum Srishti Sethi, Unstructured Studio provides free and low-cost creative learning opportunities to students in India.

via SocialStory · Aug. 31, 2021
in Lifelong Kindergarten
#kids #learning #creativity +2 more
Archived
Project Research

LEGO Wayfinder

The LEGO Wayfinder project combines LEGO, robotics, and seawater into a playground of project-based learning and citizen science for budd...

in ML Learning · Open Ocean
Katy Croff Bell · Jennifer Chow +4 more
#robotics #environment #kids +5 more
Archived
Article Research

Horizons 2021 - The Calm Before the Storm: The Transformational Impact of Al on Education

Cynthia Breazeal and others discuss the impact of AI on education, and how it might be applied in intentional ways to improve learning.

via JFF · June 23, 2021
in Personal Robots
#artificial intelligence #learning #industry
Article Research

Advertisers are hijacking your dreams, scientists say

This is the actual stuff of nightmares.

via Popular Mechanics · July 8, 2021
in Fluid Interfaces
#cognition #learning #creativity +2 more
Article Research

Companies are ready to experiment with advertising in your dreams, and experts are sounding the alarm

Sleep and dream researchers are urging for an advance tightening of advertising law to nip all this in the bud before it starts in earnest.

via Relevant · July 6, 2021
in Fluid Interfaces
#cognition #learning #creativity +2 more
Article Research

Neuroscientists warn advertisers are trying to 'weaponize sleep' by plugging into your dreams

“The potential for misuse of these technologies is as ominous as it is obvious.”

via The Hill · July 6, 2021
in Fluid Interfaces
#cognition #learning #creativity +2 more
Article Research

Nightmare scenario: Alarm as advertisers seek to plug into our dreams

After Coors sought to steer unconscious minds to thoughts of beer, scientists have called for curbs on ‘targeted dream incubation.’

via The Guardian · July 5, 2021
in Fluid Interfaces
#cognition #learning #creativity +2 more
Project Research

Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal

The Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal is a research project that focuses on the design and fabrication of a pavilion that will gene...

in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
Valentina Sumini · Clement Duhart +4 more
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +10 more
Post Research

Introducing: PLIX Inflatables!

The Public Library Innovation Exchange (PLIX) has recently released its latest creative learning activity: Inflatables!

June 11, 2021
in Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio
#robotics #design #art +2 more
Project Research

Therms-Up!: DIY Inflatables and Interactive Materials by Upcycling Wasted Thermoplastic Bags

Therms-Up! is a DIY method of creating inflatables and prototyping interactive materials from wasted thermoplastic bags that easily found...

in Tangible Media
Kyung Yun Choi · Hiroshi Ishii
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +5 more
Project Research

Child-Driven, Robot-Guided Literacy Activity

 

in Personal Robots
Pedro Colon-Hernandez · Safinah Arshad Ali +2 more
#robotics #design #construction +5 more
Research
Community Biotechnology

Community Biotechnology

#design #human-computer interaction #art +22 more
Article Research

Helping students of all ages flourish in the era of artificial intelligence

Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education (RAISE) seeks to empower more people to participate in, and benefit from, AI.

via MIT News · May 18, 2021
in RAISE
#artificial intelligence #learning
Post Research

Introducing the Public Library Innovation Exchange (PLIX)

Public libraries and the MIT Media Lab are kindred spirits. Together, we hope to design new programs for libraries across the U.S.

Oct. 3, 2017
in ML Learning
#learning
Article Research

5 questions with MIT Media Lab’s Jaleesa Trapp

Code.org interviews Lifelong Kindergarten PhD student Jaleesa Trapp in honor of Women’s History Month.

via Code.org · March 29, 2021
in Lifelong Kindergarten
#kids #learning #computer science +2 more
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