Despite the disruption caused by the pandemic, MIT students have carved out meaningful hands-on experiences.
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Three new research briefs from the MIT task force explore the fragmented U.S. workforce training system for low- to moderate-skilled workers.
“The experience has motivated me to make the most out of my opportunities at MIT and to think carefully about how to apply what I’m learning to contribute to these types of solutions, because I realized creating these solutions is a lot harder than I once thought.” - MIT Student So Hee Ahn.
"We’re pretty good at fixing things we can measure. But not at retraining our own unconscious biases: preference for working with people who look just like us; and unexamined, biased assumptions about people different from us."
MIT Full STEAM Ahead believes “hands-on remote learning” may become the great new frontier for delivering quality K-12 online learning at scale.
Scientists distinguish brain regions based on what they do, but now have a new way to overlay information about how they are built.
Faculty and teaching staff at MIT are piloting new methods of teaching hands-on, project-based classes this semester.
As the education system works to stabilize and adapt, addressing learning loss must stay at the forefront of the conversation.
This year, MIT is letting students earn money while working on challenging and meaningful hands-on projects. Remote or on campus, these experiential learning opportunities (or ELOs, for short) connect students to important, real-world projects in MIT research labs and makerspaces, K-12 schools and startups, nonprofits, and global industries.
MIT grad, Emily Calandrelli, hosts a children's science education program on Netflix. Check out Emily's Wonder Lab, and read more about her here.