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Exploring GenAI Technologies within Collaborative Learning Open

Emma Anderson, Grace C. Lin, Raed Atef, Mic Fenech, B. R. Hanks , et al. · 2025

Co-designing Large Language Model Tools for Project-Based Learning with K12 Educators Open

Prerna Ravi, John Masla, Gisella Kakoti, Grace C. Lin, Emma Anderson , et al. · 2025

The emergence of generative AI, particularly large language models (LLMs), has opened the door for student-centered and active learning methods like project-based learning (PBL). However, PBL poses practical implementation challenges for e…

Advancing Research on Equitable AI Education Through a Focus on Implementation: Insights from a Middle School Computer Vision Module Beta-Test Open

Christina A. Bosch, Mary Cate Gustafson-Quiett, Samar Abu Hegly, Sarah Wharton, John Masla , et al. · 2025

Part of a university initiative supporting responsible AI for social empowerment and education, the project-based RAICA (Responsible AI for Computational Action) curriculum supports middle/high school learners and novice AI literacy teache…

Supporting AI Literacy Teaching Through the Development of Assessments for Classroom Use Open

John Masla, Christina Bosch, Prerna Ravi, Larisa Guterman, Sarah Wharton , et al. · 2025

Initial discussion of AI literacy assessment has focused on competency frameworks and learning standards rather than materials for classroom use. Responsible AI for Computational Action (RAICA), a constructionist AI curriculum for middle a…

Boundary objects in longevity planning service: exploring personas and dualities through constructivist grounded theory Open

Sheng-Hung Lee, Maria C. Yang, Eric Klopfer, Joseph F. Coughlin · 2025

As we enter the era of longevity economics, the desire for longer life spans and health spans is increasingly prevalent. Recognizing the importance of longevity planning (LP) has become particularly significant, as individuals seek to enha…

Education Technology During the Pandemic and Future Emergencies Open

Justin Reich, Cristóbal Cobo, Sarah Dryden‐Peterson, Eric Klopfer, Anya Kamenetz , et al. · 2024

As average global temperatures rise and extreme weather events become more common, schooling will be interrupted with greater frequency, for longer durations, in places without prior histories of disaster preparedness. Throughout the pande…

Opportunities, Issues, and Challenges for Generative AI in Fostering Equitable Pathways in Computing Education Open

Cynthia Breazeal, Arun Rai, Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Liwei Chen, Yuan Long , et al. · 2024

Generative AI and K-12 Education: An MIT Perspective Open

Eric Klopfer, Justin Reich, Hal Abelson, Cynthia Breazeal · 2024

In November of 2022, a Silicon Valley company launched an invention that could complete students' homework for them. Available only to subscribers at first, by the spring of 2023 OpenAI's ChatGPT-3.5 was available to millions of students. …

Skilling for and Acculturation to Integrated Photonics Industry Using VR Simulations, Game-Based Learning, and Augmented Reality Games Open

Sajan Saini, Erik Verlage, Anu Agarwal, Drew Weninger, Samuel Serna , et al. · 2024

The integrated photonics and fiber optics industries are rapidly expanding and innovating, respectively, to enable transformative new integrated circuit, AI, datacom, wireless, sensing and imaging systems for cloud and mobile computing, au…

UNDERSTANDING TEACHER PERSPECTIVES AND EXPERIENCES AFTER DEPLOYMENT OF AI LITERACY CURRICULUM IN MIDDLE-SCHOOL CLASSROOMS Open

Prerna Ravi, Annalisa Broski, Glenda Stump, Hal Abelson, Eric Klopfer , et al. · 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its associated applications are ubiquitous\nin today's world, making it imperative that students and their teachers\nunderstand how it works and the ramifications arising from its usage. In this\nstudy, we …

CO-CREATE FINANCIAL PLANNING SERVICES FOR AN AGING POPULATION: DESIGNERS' PERSPECTIVES Open

Sheng‐Hung Lee, Joseph F. Coughlin, Maria C. Yang, Olivier de Weck, Chaiwoo Lee , et al. · 2023

The purpose of the study is to understand the design considerations for creating a provocative financial planning toolkit with services to help facilitate more constructive and meaningful conversations to build trust and empathy between fi…

SERVICE DESIGN IN ACTION: TRANSFORMATION, CONSIDERATION, AND SYSTEM THINKING Open

Sheng‐Hung Lee, Maria C. Yang, Olivier de Weck, Chaiwoo Lee, Joseph F. Coughlin , et al. · 2023

Service design has been an emerging transdisciplinary field that includes product, system, and social science, since the term was first introduced to academic research in the early 1990s. With socioeconomical shifts and emerging technologi…

Design for the Future Essay Open

Sheng Hung Lee, Eric Klopfer, Joseph F. Coughlin · 2022

Los servicios de planificación financiera y la experiencia bancaria son desafíos sistemáticos de diseño social y tecnológico complicados, son más que solo discutir números, dinero, inversiones y beneficios. Por lo tanto, el propósito de la…

Authenticity, Interactivity, and Collaboration in Virtual Reality Games: Best Practices and Lessons Learned Open

Annie Wang, Meredith Thompson, Cigdem Uz-Bilgin, Eric Klopfer · 2021

Virtual reality has become an increasingly important topic in the field of education research, going from a tool of interest to a tool of practice. In this paper, we document and summarize the studies associated with our 4-year design proj…

MIT Full STEAM Ahead: Bringing Project-Based, Collaborative Learning to Remote Learning Environments Open

Claudia Urrea, Kirky DeLong, Joe Diaz, Eric Klopfer, Meredith Thompson , et al. · 2021

With schools and educational centers around the country moving from in-person to emergency remote learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic, education faces an unprecedented crisis (Hodges et al., Educause Review 27, 2020). This case study pre…

The Complex Evolution of Technologies and Pedagogies for Learning about Complex Systems Open

Eric Klopfer · 2021

It was the mid 1990s [...]

Influence of Virtual Reality on High School Students' Conceptions of Cells Open

Meredith Thompson, Annie Wang, Cigdem Uz-Bilgin, Melat Anteneh, Dan Roy , et al. · 2020

Cells are central to the study of biology, yet many learners have difficulties understanding the abstract yet fundamental foundation of life. Research suggests that students' conceptions of cells are reinforced by current biology learning …

datasets of how data illuminate thinking about genetics in an online game Open

Meng‐Tzu Cheng, Louisa Rosenheck, Chen‐Yen Lin, Eric Klopfer · 2020

Research data including all the raw data and analyzing codes

Designing for Group Flow in Collaborative Cross-Platform Learning Experiences Open

Meredith Thompson, Laura Zhang, Mohamed Raouf Seyam, Jing Fan, Annie Wang , et al. · 2019

Technological resources have expanded the goal of education from individual knowledge acquisition to include the development of critical thinking, communication, and collaboration (Griffin, McCaw, Care, 2012; Van Roekel, 2014). This shift …

Authenticity, Interactivity, and Collaboration in VR Learning Games Open

Meredith Thompson, Annie Wang, Dan Roy, Eric Klopfer · 2018

Decreasing cost and increasing technology access in schools places 3D immersive virtual reality (VR) within the reach of K-12 classrooms (Korbey, 2017). Educators have great interest in incorporating VR into classrooms because they are eng…

Resonant Games Open

Eric Klopfer, Jason Haas, Scot Osterweil, Louisa Rosenheck · 2018

Principles for designing educational games that integrate content and play and create learning experiences connecting to many areas of learners' lives. Too often educational videogames are narrowly focused on specific learning outcomes dic…

Designing Computer-Supported Complex Systems Curricula for the Next Generation Science Standards in High School Science Classrooms Open

Susan A. Yoon, Emma Anderson, Eric Klopfer, Jessica Koehler-Yom, Josh Sheldon , et al. · 2016

We present a curriculum and instruction framework for computer-supported teaching and learning about complex systems in high school science classrooms. This work responds to a need in K-12 science education research and practice for the ar…

Designing Computer-Supported Complex Systems Curricula for the Next Generation Science Standards in High School Science Classrooms Open

Susan A. Yoon, Emma Anderson, Eric Klopfer, Jessica Koehler-Yom, Josh Sheldon , et al. · 2016

We present a curriculum and instruction framework for computer-supported teaching and learning about complex systems in high school science classrooms. This work responds to a need in K-12 science education research and practice for the ar…

Teaching about complex systems is no simple matter: building effective professional development for computer-supported complex systems instruction Open

Emma Anderson, Jessica Koehler-Yom, Chad Evans, Mi-Young Park, Susan A. Yoon , et al. · 2016

Design and Implementation of an MMO Open

Louisa Rosenheck, Susannah Gordon-Messer, Jody Clarke‐Midura, Eric Klopfer · 2016

Games can be a powerful tool for learning not only content knowledge but also skills and ways of thinking. In a classroom, the instructional design that goes into the implementation of a learning game is as important as the game itself. Th…

Design features for computer-supported complex systems learning and teaching in high school science classrooms Open

Susan A. Yoon, Emma Anderson, Jessica Koehler-Yom, Eric Klopfer, Josh Sheldon , et al. · 2015

While research on teaching and learning about complex systems has achieved solid grounding in the learning sciences, few educational studies have focused on articulating design features for classroom implementation that can serve a modular…

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