Education, Technology, and Opportunity Innovation Competition aims to improve student learning.
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Researchers and educators gather at MIT to discuss how to meet the educational needs of a new learning society.
MITili affiliated faculty, Joshua Angrist, explains why education reform needs more rigorous experimental evidence.
Congrats to the MIT faculty members who won this year's digital learning and innovation prizes!
This year's group features a COO working to improve first-generation college student education readiness, a mayor financing scholarships to triple the number of city students entering, and a professional skateboarder.
"Our motto is inclusiveness," says Khalid Mustafa, the IT director of the Timothy Smith Network. "Too often we have all these rules that filter people out. How do we invite people in?"
This month MITili and the McGovern Institute teamed up to convene researchers and educators to help close the gap in education between what scientists are studying and what practitioners are doing.
Using ScratchJr, an intro programming language co-designed by MIT and Tufts, toddlers are learning to code as early as nursery school.
Dr. Amy Carleton has students prepare science communications for Wikipedia to help them understand the material, but also to communicate it in a way that all people will understand.
Participants are selected on the basis of their teaching experience, statements of interest, and plans to incorporate their research experience into their teaching.