Professors have taken to social media to share a spectrum of AI policies. And students—whether or not they’ll admit it—have cautiously experimented with the idea of allowing it to play a part in their academic work. Read more
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For the past 10 years, MIT students who are members of dynaMIT have taught middle schoolers from under-resourced Boston-area schools vital STEM principles through a variety of games, experiments, and activities.
Twenty-seven proposals have been selected to receive exploratory funding.
The Jameel World Education Lab awards more than $900K in Education Innovation Grants to researchers across MIT. Read more
An expanded Hobby Shop welcomes all members of the MIT community seeking to build their passion projects. Read more
“Our group reflects something deeper about the Sloan school and about MIT as well, an openness to doing things differently and not having to fit into narrowly defined tracks,” MIT's Dean Eckles says. Read more
The MIT motto, mens et manus or “mind and hand,” reflects the educational ideals of MIT’s founders to promote both theory (mind) and practical application (hand). Today, MIT lives and learns by this motto, combining rigorous academics with a learning-by-doing approach to explore and solve real-world problems.
Behind prison walls, a unique initiative is reshaping the lives of inmates through coding education. MIT's 'Brave Behind Bars' program empowers incarcerated individuals, equipping them with coding and digital literacy skills. Watch
Each semester, students help Boston-area organizations with technical needs — pro bono. The work varies from project to project but often involves website and blog creation, software support, app development, and data analysis and visualization. Read more
Researchers at the MIT Language Acquisition Lab are using funds from the 2022 Levitan Prize in the Humanities to carry out a set of studies investigating children's acquisition of "expletives" or “dummy words” — words that don't seem to have any meaning.