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The 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 equivalent including high school courses) Open to: Undergrad and grad students Read more…

April 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 the Humanities and host of the new public television mini-series Read more…

Posted on the Carnegie Mellon University ETC Press Website: https://press.etc.cmu.edu/news/well-played-journal-special-issue-cfp-ar-and-vr-games Well Played Journal Special Issue CFP: AR and VR Games Posted by: etcpress January 17, 2023 Edited by Ira Fay and Dan Roy AR and VR games are growing in popularity and access, while also increasing in the variety of experiences Read more…

The full post can be found on the CMS/W website here: https://cmsw.mit.edu/advice-and-responses-from-faculty-on-chatgpt-and-a-i-assisted-writing/#future-of-writing “Several faculty members in CMS/W have expertise, both technological and pedagogical, in what the use of ChatGPT and other A.I. tools may mean for the instruction of academic writing. Because instructors at MIT and elsewhere have expressed some urgency in Read more…

The application is live for our Science and Engineering Program for Teachers! Please check out our site (https://sept.mit.edu/apply) to download the application and apply. Decisions will be made by Pi-Day (03.14.23).  Applications are due by February 15th, 2023. SEPT 2023 will be held on campus, Sunday, July  9th – Friday, Read more…

“School Stories”, a special subject course in literature that explores education equity through the eyes of creative writers and critical theorists, is looking to partner with MIT education outreach programs this spring to provide an experiential learning component to the course. Undergraduates in this course will be required to volunteer to tutor Read more…

K-12 EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIST, Comparative Media Studies/Writing-MIT Scheller Teacher Education Program (STEP)/Education Arcade, to join a highly collaborative team.  Will assume two primary roles:  1) curating existing resources and co-creating original computing curriculum for integration into grades 5-8; and 2) in a teacher professional development and coaching role developing and facilitating group Read more…

Looking for a part-time paid lecturer for two introductory education courses at MIT.    One year (one course in the fall and one in the spring) substitute lecturer wanted for two introductory education courses at MIT (Introduction to Education: Looking Forward and Looking Back on Education and Introduction to Education: Read more…

We are thrilled to welcome our new postdoctoral learning designer Milly Farid to the MIT Scheller Teacher Education Program. Milly will be joining the XQ Math Team, helping us to create Project Based Learning curriculum and playful assessments. Her research draws on design-based research approaches in supporting and understanding processes Read more…