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The application is live for our 2025 Science and Engineering Program for Teachers. This year’s program will be on MIT’s Campus July 6th-11th 2025. If you are a Middle or High School STEM teacher and want a professional development opportunity Read more…
Read MoreOur collaboration work with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has recently been featured in the University’s Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources news page. See the post here
Read MoreEvery year in our spring class, Design and Development of Games for Learning (CMS.590), students work in groups on three big projects – curriculum for an existing game, an original or modified tabletop game, and an original digital game. The Read more…
Read Moreby Eric Klopfer, Justin Reich, Hal Abelson, and Cynthia Breazeal Abstract: In November of 2022, a Silicon Valley company launched an invention that could complete students’ homework for them. Available only to subscribers at first, by the spring of 2023 Read more…
Read MoreScot Osterweil and Judy Perry facilitated a workshop at the Connected Learning Summit conference entitled “Why does it have to be a game?” on Friday, October 27, 2023. Program Description: There was a time when we had to convince educators that Read more…
Read MoreThe lab is excited to announce a new class that will be offered this fall! CMS.S61/S97 – CS.forward(): trace the past, plot the future of K-12 CS education. Meeting times: Tuesday/Thursday 1-2:30 pm (in room E25-117) Pre-reqs: Basic programming experience (6.100A or Read more…
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Read MoreApril 12th, 5pm-7pm Join us for a screening of clips from “SEARCHING: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science” and comments from MIT’s Alan Lightman, Nancy Kawisher, Kieran Setiya producer/director Geoff Haines-Stiles (Carl Sagan’s COSMOS)…and YOU! Lightman, MIT Professor of the Practice of Read more…
Read MoreThe Connected Learning Summit was first convened in 2018 with the mission to fuel a growing movement of innovators harnessing the power of emerging technology to expand access to participatory, playful, and creative learning. With a unique focus on cross-sector Read more…
Read MoreNatasha Singer, a technology reporter in the Business section of the New York Times, highlighted the work of the MIT STEP Lab’s Everyday AI PD program in the article “At This School, Computer Science Class Now Includes Critiquing Chatbots.” The Read more…
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