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"The whole premise of our project is to harness the best science and innovation to bring education to the world’s most underresourced children," Cynthia Breazeal says. Pictured are students in Ethiopia.

Can technology help teach literacy in poor communities?

Project to provide children with tablets loaded with literacy apps reports encouraging results in Africa, U.S.

April 26, 2016

At the 2016 White House Science Fair, Baruch College Campus High School InvenTeam members Wendy Ni (left), Amro Halwah (center), and Stephen Mwingira show off their modular cleaning device that attaches to existing trains on city subway tracks.

Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam students participate in 2016 White House Science Fair

April 14, 2016

Students receive instructions from Amy Fitzgerald (right), outreach program coordinator at the MIT Edgerton Center, while Isabelle Pisini (left) translates the directions to American Sign Language.

Students from the Beverly School for the Deaf visit the Edgerton Center

At the Edgerton Center, students learn engineering principles through Lego kits.

March 23, 2016

JV InvenTeams work on invention activities.

Lemelson-MIT Program expands invention education opportunities for middle and high school students

Free invention activity guides available to educators nationwide to bring hands-on learning to the classroom.

February 25, 2016

MIT junior Emily Benz instructs a group of SHINE participants.

Through dance, program turns "I can't" into "I can"

Student-run program, SHINE for Girls, teaches middle schoolers mathematics through dance.

February 24, 2016

The Kaymbu app, developed by an MIT Sloan Fellow, records and securely shares video and images of a young child’s classroom experiences with parents.

Media-sharing app for early education catches on nationwide

Teachers can record a child’s learning experiences and securely share them with parents.

February 24, 2016

The integrated science of learning — now emerging as a significant field of research — will be the core of MITili (pronounced “mightily”), a cross-disciplinary, Institute-wide initiative to foster rigorous quantitative and qualitative research on how people learn.

New initiatives accelerate learning research and its applications

Gabrieli, Belcher, Sarma leading new efforts to understand learning, improve it at all levels of education.

February 2, 2016

MIT has announced several Institute-wide initiatives aimed at coordinating and expanding its programs in residential and digital education, at all levels of teaching and learning.

FAQs: Reshaping MIT’s programs in online and digital education

New initiatives aim to accelerate learning research and its applications.

February 2, 2016

MIT nuclear science and engineering undergrad Jake Hecla teaches the audience about the fundamentals of charged-particle radiation.

Inspiring the next generation of nuclear engineers

Nuclear science and engineering community leads “Science on Saturday” outreach at MIT.

December 17, 2015

New PBS KIDS ScratchJr app launches

Developed in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab and Tufts University, the PBS KIDS ScratchJr app helps children ages 5-8 learn coding concepts.

December 3, 2015

Josh Stillerman (left) and Bob Mumgaard help guide conference attendee Deedee Ortiz through virtual rooms of a 3-D tokamak fusion device.

Sharing fusion research with 3-D, video games, and comics

Members of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center wow colleagues, students, and teachers with a 3-D tour of the Institute's nuclear fusion experiment.

November 30, 2015

Bert Forbes holds a 3-D printed milk drop modeled after Doc Edgerton’s photo. Also pictured: J. Kim Vandiver and Candace Forbes.

Gift from Candace and Bert Forbes ’66 creates endowment to support directorship of the Edgerton Center

November 16, 2015

2015 Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams grant winners hail from around the United States.

High School teams awarded 2015-16 Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam grants for invention projects

Fourteen student teams nationwide address social and environmental issues through invention.

October 14, 2015

(Left to right) MIT Professor Anant Agarwal moderated "Roundtable: The Challenges Facing Education Transformation," which included Jeffrey Young, superintendent of Cambridge Public Schools, and MIT President L. Rafael Reif.

Reimagining high school

Education experts discuss how to transform the American high school during Solve event.

October 9, 2015

"Kreyòl pale, kreyòl konprann," by artist cooperative Kalfou Richès, was a gift to the MIT-Haiti Initiative. The title translates to: “When Kreyòl is spoken, Kreyòl speakers understand.”

Haitian educators and MIT faculty develop Kreyòl-based teaching tools

Project led by linguist Michel DeGraff is revolutionizing education in Haiti, and serving as a model for similar projects around the world.

October 7, 2015

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