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By: Kylie Foy | MIT Lincoln Laboratory
“My day-to-day is forming relationships," says Chiamaka Agbasi-Porter, Lincoln Laboratory’s K–12 STEM outreach coordinator.
By: Duyen Nguyen | MIT Open Learning
“Even in the face of extreme disruption, education and scholarship must continue, and MIT is committed to providing resources and safe forums for displaced scholars,” says MIT’s Richard Lester.
By: Zach Winn | MIT News Office
PEN’s training workshops focus on showing teachers what’s possible by exposing them to hands-on activities that require only locally available materials.
By: Terri Park | MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
The Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing publishes a collection of original pedagogical materials developed for instructional use on MIT OpenCourseWare.
By: Adam Zewe | MIT News Office
Thanks to decades of cognitive science and educational psychology research, scientists have a pretty good handle on how humans learn new concepts. So, researchers at MIT and Harvard University collaborated to apply well-established theories of human concept learning to challenges in human-robot interaction.
By: Jane Halpern
Congratulations to MITili affiliated researcher, Dishita Turakhia, and all winners of this year's Meta Fellowship.
By: Katherine Ouellette | MIT Open Learning
Throughout MIT’s Festival of Learning, the underlying keys to success were less about the specific tools and more about reaching students on an emotional level. Leading with compassion to make students feel seen and heard is just as important as content.
By: Jennifer Michalowski
State-of-the-art analysis of brain images from nearly 700 children has turned up surprisingly few links between white matter structure and reading ability.
By: David Orenstein | Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
The act of holding information in mind is accompanied by coordination of rotating brain waves in the prefrontal cortex, a phenomenon that may convey specific advantages, a new study suggests.
By: Molly Chase | Climate and Sustainability Consortium
Through MIT’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, students explore research topics relevant to their own interests, the MCSC, and member companies.