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Student Projects from Design and Development of Games for Learning

Every 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 final project is to create a 10-15 minute playable prototype […]

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Newly published: Generative AI and K-12 Education: An MIT Perspective

by 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 OpenAI’s ChatGPT-3.5 was available to millions of students. As of […]

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Lab facilitates workshop at Connected Learning Summit conference entitled “Why does it have to be a game?”

Scot 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 there was a role for games in learning. Now that […]

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NEW CLASS ANNOUNCEMENT! CS.forward(): trace the past, plot the future of K-12 CS education

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 […]

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FREE EVENT ON CAMPUS, APRIL 12th! “Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science.”

April 12th, 5pm-7pm Registration is encouraged, but not required. http://bit.ly/3lEGNbb nd Y

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“Just Atoms and Molecules? Or Something More?” Screening and discussion of Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science

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 […]

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