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John Evans

MIT Welcomes Makers with New Maker Portfolio | MAKE - 1 views

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    "The MIT Admissions Dept is making it possible for young makers to share their projects as part of the application process, starting this year. Dr. Dawn Wendell, Assistant Director of Admissions at MIT, said that a new Maker Portfolio supplement on the MIT Admissions web site will provide a structured way for students to submit information about a diverse set of projects that they have participated in."
John Evans

MIT Joins Forces with Khan Academy to Produce Videos for Young Students | MindShift - 2 views

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    "MIT Joins Forces with Khan Academy to Produce Videos for Young Students"
John Evans

ScratchJr iPad App From MIT Teaches Young Kids How To Code - Business Insider - 0 views

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    "A free iPad app called ScratchJr, which was created by the MIT Media Lab with help from Tufts University and the Playful Invention Company (PICO), says it can teach children between the ages of 5 and 8 how to code."
John Evans

e-Textiles-in-a-Box | National Center for Women & Information Technology - 1 views

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    "Use the e-Textiles-in-a-Box tutorial and get ready to teach young people about electronics and computing. Based on the Computational Textiles Curriculum and Sew Electric from MIT, e-Textiles-in-a-Box provides instructions for sewing soft circuits and programming an Arduino microprocessor on the way to creating a bookmark book light and an interactive felt monster that lights up and sings. NCWIT is pleased to offer e-Textiles-in-a-Box in cooperation with the MIT High-Low Tech Group, and with funding from the National Science Foundation."
Phil Taylor

[PT] Pseudoteaching: MIT Physics | Action-Reaction - 0 views

  • MIT do after Lewin’s show-stopping lectures failed to change declining attendance and large failure rates? They created interactive learning spaces like TEAL, which stands for Technology Enhanced Active Learning.
Phil Taylor

About Us | Explore MIT App Inventor - 1 views

  • MIT App Inventor project seeks to democratize software development by empowering all people, especially young people, to transition from being consumers of technology to becoming creators of it
John Evans

The Maker Movement Isn't Just About Making and Electronics: EdSurge Talks to MIT's Mitc... - 1 views

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    "Is making something that every school should be doing-and are all interpretations of "making" of equitable value? EdSurge sat down with Resnick in his office at the MIT Media Lab to learn more, and to find out how he and his team are working to bring more creativity into the learning process."
John Evans

In Memory: Seymour Papert | MIT Media Lab - 1 views

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    " Seymour Papert, whose ideas and inventions transformed how millions of children around the world create and learn, died Sunday, July 31, 2016 at his home in East Blue Hill, Maine. He was 88."
John Evans

Quick Look: MIT and Harvard announce edX | MindShift - 0 views

  • “The gathering of many universities’ educational content together on one site will enable learners worldwide to access the course content of any participating university from a single website, and to use a set of online educational tools shared by all participating universities.” Key piece of information: “EdX will release its learning platform as open-source software so it can be used by other universities and organizations that wish to host the platform themselves.”
Phil Taylor

Move Over Harvard And MIT, Stanford Has The Real "Revolution In Education" | TechCrunch - 1 views

  • recent one-week study that compared the outcomes of two classes, a control class that received a lecture from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and an experimental section where students worked with graduate assistants to solve physics problems. Test scores for the experimental group (non-lecture) was nearly double that of the control section (41% to 74%).
John Evans

MIT Students Create The Future With An iPad And A Glove | Cult of Mac - 0 views

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    "You've seen Stephen Spielberg's film, Minority Report, right? Tom Cruise's character stands in front of virtual screens, puts on a pair of gloves, and manipulates the data and the memories without touching a thing. Well, the super brains at MIT's media lab have taken the first step toward that reality, using Apple's magical device as a display screen and a special glove/attachment combo to interact with it."
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