Quests, Badges, and XP: How Teachers Are Using Digital Games
The Education Arcade was featured in the news story, “Quests, Badges, and XP: How Teachers Are Using Digital Games” in Education Week recently. The story focuses on how teachers are using games in the...
View ArticleCall for Proposals: Well Played – Intergenerational Play
Well Played: Intergenerational Play Special Issue Call for Proposals How does a parent know if the games that their child is playing is helpful, harmful, appropriate, challenging or intimidating for...
View ArticleCall for Proposals: Connected Learning Summit 2019
The date and venue are set for the Second Annual Connected Learning Summit (CLS): October 3-5, 2019 at the University of California, Irvine. The conference location will alternate between UC Irvine and...
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Students develop mobile apps over Independent Activities Period – Part I
The MIT Scheller Teacher Education Program/The Education Arcade is typically bustling during January’s Independent Activities Period or “IAP” at MIT. It’s a month when students can spend time on...
View ArticleConnected Learning Summit: Keynote Speakers Announced
Eve Ewing and Tracy Fullerton have been announced as the keynote speakers for the 2019 Connected Learning Summit. Ewing is a sociologist focused on social inequality in education. Fullerton is an...
View ArticleCLIx Recognized in 2019 Open Education Awards
The Connected Learning Initiative (CLIx) was recognized by the Open Education Awards for Excellence as 2019 Winners of Resources, Tools, and Practices for Open Collaboration. See the Open Education...
View ArticleMIT pSims Launch
The notion of complex systems is central to many of today’s most pressing societal challenges, from tackling climate change to developing new pharmaceutical drugs to understanding the spread of...
View ArticleBioGraph Summer Course Enrollment
Are you looking for an interesting professional development to participate in that has consistently shown to increase students’ engagement and learning in biology? We want to invite you to join a free...
View ArticleFull STEAM Ahead
We are excited to announce Full STEAM Ahead – MIT’s new website welcoming kids, parents, educators and lifelong learners to explore resources from K-12 and beyond! Full STEAM Ahead is a website MIT has...
View ArticleTeaching, Learning, Parenting and Gaming
Learn more about learning with games Do you have kids who are at home playing video games? Do you worry about it being “a waste of time”? Video games can actually lead to great learning. We are making...
View ArticleOpen Position: PD Designer
MIT is developing an inclusive AI literacy curriculum for middle school in collaboration with schools in the U.S., the UAE and other countries worldwide, ensuring that it supports a diversity of...
View ArticleCLEVR publishes paper in Virtual Reality Journal
Cigdem Uz-Bilgin and Meredith Thompson of the CLEVR project have recently published a paper in the journal Virtual Reality. Processing presence: how users develop spatial presence through an immersive...
View ArticleConnected Learning Summit: Registration Now Open!
Join a gathering of innovators harnessing emerging technology to expand access to participatory, playful and creative learning. The Connected Learning Summit will be a virtual event held from July 7th–...
View ArticleLearning Across Realities: Virtual and Augmented Reality in Education (Report)
Dan Roy (MIT Education Arcade) and Iulian Radu (Harvard University Graduate School of Education) wrote a report on using virtual and augmented realities in education, called Learning Across Realities....
View ArticleCSTA Presentation
Irene Lee presented at the CSTA: CS Across the Curriculum Conference on February 12. Her keynote focused on CS Integration to Enhance Disciplinary Learning. Link to the presentation can be found here.
View ArticleSEPT 2022
We are excited to be moving forward with the planning of an ON CAMPUS Science and Engineering Program for Teachers in 2022 as we did pre-pandemic, onsite and housed at MIT with the 56 teachers accepted...
View ArticleEveryday AI Make-a-thon
Everyday AI Make-a-thon: Co-designing with Teachers to Advance AI Education Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the landscape of the future. At the Everyday AI Make-a-thon – a weekend hybrid...
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Breakthroughs in Biology
Biology is changing quickly, with many exciting developments every year, but teens often don’t know about these innovations. That may deter them from entering the field. In our lab, we developed...
View ArticleWelcoming Milly Farid
We are thrilled to welcome our new postdoctoral learning designer Milly Farid to the MIT Scheller Teacher Education Program. Milly will be joining the XQ Math Team, helping us to create Project Based...
View ArticlePart-Time STEM Teacher Education Lecturer at MIT
Looking for a part-time paid lecturer for two introductory education courses at MIT. One year (one course in the fall and one in the spring) substitute lecturer wanted for two introductory education...
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