MIT's Sep Kamvar helped create Wildflower, a Montessori school in Cambridge that uses cameras and sensors to track student movement.
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MIT School Access and Quality Summit brings policymakers, educators, and researchers together to examine strategies and ways to measure effectiveness.
MIT neuroscientists are hoping to use new findings to improve neural networks' ability to store previously learned tasks while learning to perform new ones.
At the MIT AI Summit, many participants wondered if our K12 education system is preparing students for the jobs of the future.
Part of effective education is having good mentors in place. MIT's Baglietto, Saxe, and Shoulders demonstrate that for grad students.
A revolutionary educational project in the 1980s put the tools of computation in students’ hands — and foreshadowed even greater changes.
MIT's Tara Swart talks about the importance of a good night's sleep if you want to have peak brain performance. Learning is retaining information and that's very hard to do when you're asleep at the wheel.
“You have to jump in and learn by trying things, by making the mistakes that everybody makes the first time they try to solve problems,” says Anette “Peko” Hosoi.
Each of our brain cells could work like a mini-computer, according to the first recording of electrical activity in human cells at a super-fine level of detail.
Technique could be used to detect light or electrical fields in living tissue.