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Sayamindu DasguptaApr 34 min read

Studying the relationship between remixing & learning

With more than 10 million users, the Scratch online community is the largest online community where kids learn to program. Since it was created, a central goal of the community has been to promote “remixing” — the reworking and…

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MIT Media LabMar 318 min read

MAS Ambassadors Program: Reaching out to a more diverse pool of students

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Ethan ZuckermanMar 2511 min read

Rooftop solar, and the four levers of social change

I started noticing the solar panels four or five years ago. My neighbors’ barns starting sprouting them, neat black rectangles covering the south-facing roofs. Down by the ski area, already known for being (mostly) powered by a ridge filled…

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Placelet: Mobile Foot Traffic Analytics System Using Custom Optical Flow

Placelet: Mobile Foot Traffic Analytics System Using Custom Optical Flow

By Nazmus Saquib, Social Computing group
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MIT Media LabMar 3
Shining the Spotlight on Matt Carroll

Shining the Spotlight on Matt Carroll

A profile of a Pulitzer Prize-winning Dunkin’ Donuts drinking Bostonian, who will be “literally in the last row” of the Oscars tonight.
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Sophie ChouFeb 28
Who’s Influencing Election 2016?

Who’s Influencing Election 2016?

By William Powers
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Lab for Social MachinesFeb 23
Education
Certificates, Reputation, and the Blockchain

Certificates, Reputation, and the Blockchain

By Philipp Schmidt (@schmidtphi)
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MIT Media LabOct 27, 2015
Fostering Creative Learning through Coding and Making in Brazil

Fostering Creative Learning through Coding and Making in Brazil

The collaboration between the Media Lab and the Lemann Foundation, to support creative learning in Brazil, is moving forward at a fast pace…
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MIT Media LabOct 10, 2015
STEM
A Thank-You Note to Megan Smith

A Thank-You Note to Megan Smith

From Students of the MIT Media Lab
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MIT Media LabNov 18, 2015
Increasing Diversity of People and Ideas at the Media Lab Through MSRP

Increasing Diversity of People and Ideas at the Media Lab Through MSRP

The MIT Media Lab is the kind of place you have to see (and feel and touch) to believe and understand. In my capacity as the Lab’s…
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MIT Media LabAug 19, 2015
Community
MIT Media Lab Changes Software Default to FLOSS*

MIT Media Lab Changes Software Default to FLOSS*

By Joi Ito (@Joi)
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MIT Media LabMar 26
I never went looking for a mentor

I never went looking for a mentor

I never went looking for a mentor. ¶ In 1995, I was working as the lead tech guy for an internet startup, Tripod.
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Ethan ZuckermanFeb 13
Statement of Objectives

Statement of Objectives

Insights from a Student’s MIT Media Lab Application
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MIT Media LabOct 1, 2015
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