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.
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Three graduate students forged a path to the same Picower Institute lab through participating in the MIT Summer Research Program in Biology and Neuroscience. Read more
For most instructors, a conscious application of the Science of Learning (SoL) can significantly improve student learning in their classes.
“Board games can bring people together around the table and open up a topic, even an uncomfortable one, through their playfulness,” MIT's Doris Qingyi Duanmu notes. Read more
Researchers combined mathematical analysis and experimental measurements to discover evidence that electric fields drive the sharing of information between brain regions to form the networks that store memories. Read more
MIT Professor Ben Schneider honored as Committed to Caring for acting as a "bedrock of compassion." Read more
The Boston Globe Editorial Board spotlights The Educational Justice Institute at MIT (TEJI), which offers educational opportunities to incarcerated individuals. “The two worlds of corrections and education really don’t understand each other well,” says Lee Perlman, co-director of TEJI and a lecturer at MIT.
“The activities that I’ve been doing with the young people have been centered around this idea of dreaming through code,” says MIT's Sadler.
Spurred on by the rapid advancement of generative AI like ChatGPT, much of the current conversation on artificial intelligence has emphasized its threat to humanity. Yet, this technology and other recent innovations also hold promise for the future.
Day of AI is a free curriculum of lessons and hands-on activities designed to teach kids of all ages and backgrounds the basics and responsible use of artificial intelligence, designed by researchers at MIT RAISE. Read more