Researchers and policymakers in education are still only beginning to measure the significant learning and socio-emotional skill losses that occurred during these closures. Already disadvantaged students were often disproportionately affected, widening learning gaps between children.
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For MIT graduate and former educator Anurupa Ganguly, part of the STEM gap issue may lie in enhancing math concepts in a spatial context to encourage greater numbers of students to grasp and maintain essential concepts.
Esmeralda Hernandez and Liz Raine will bring lessons and hands-on activities from the Lincoln Laboratory Radar Introduction for Student Engineers back to their high schools.
“Infusing social and ethical aspects of computing in academic research and education is a critical component of the college mission,” says Daniel Huttenlocher, dean of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing.
Liberal arts colleges and universities are currently facing substantial challenges. Small colleges are closing at unprecedented rates. Undergraduate and graduate school enrollment dropped by 2.5% from fall 2019 to fall 2021 (NPR, December 17, 2020).
School assignment in Boston and New York City came to national attention in the 1970s as courts across the country tried to integrate schools. Today, district-wide choice allows Boston and New York students to enroll far from home, perhaps enhancing integration.
The J-WEL team scouts the MIT ecosystem for research, practices, and guidance to share with members and orchestrate new collaborations built on MIT research and experience.
Open-ended questions pose some of the biggest challenges when designing assessments in open online courses. The most effective and engaging activities and assignments are often also the hardest to assess in an open online environment.
During her high school internship at the MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Tuba Balta explored different ways to educate the public about fusion energy. "It just made me happy to help other people understand it," she says.
“We designed a novel approach where we combined teaching fabrication with playing video games. Kids already play a myriad of video games that have countless digital objects and characters that the players engage with.” – MIT’s Dishita Turakhia