CMS/W Assitant Professor Justin Reich and the Teaching Systems Lab report their recommendations and best practices for state education agencies providing remote learning guidance during COVID-19 school closures.
The one-year appointment with a focus on civic media will begin in summer 2020. Apply by May 5.
The term Wuhan virus treats COVID-19 as a Chinese scourge—and ignores an ugly history. Via The Atlantic.
His uncle’s life story tells us nothing about the president’s knowledge of the coronavirus, but it does show us why he’s failing. Via Washington Post.
“A growing body of evidence suggests that online learning works least well for our most vulnerable learners.”
An innovative humanities program that applies critical analysis, collaborative research, and design across media arts, forms, and practices. More about Comparative Media Studies/Writing >
Read important information about the Center’s services as part of MIT’s larger plans around COVID-19.
MIT students win over $20,000 in prizes for their fiction, poetry, essays, science writing, and academic writing. Deadline: April 13, 2020.
As part of our mission of working across disciplines, cultures, and communities, we welcome visiting scholars and hire postdoctoral associates and fellows. Here’s the process.
“The best way to understand the immense influence of this relatively small business is through a political economic analysis.”
In new book “Design Justice,” Associate Professor Sasha Costanza-Chock examines how to make technology work for more people in society.
Bers describes current research on a pedagogical approach for early childhood computer science education called “Coding as Another Language”.
Desmond Upton Patton introduces a critical systematic approach for extracting culture, context and nuance in social media data. The Contextual Analysis of Social Media (CASM) approach considers and critiques the gap between inadequacies in natural language processing tools and differences in geographic, cultural, and age-related variance of social media use and communication.
Associate Professor Sasha Costanza-Chock’s new book is “an exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequality, and advance collective liberation and ecological survival.”
Brazilian undergrads “often do not have opportunities to think entrepreneurially or to apply their technical knowledge while taking into consideration other humanities and social sciences disciplines such as anthropology, media studies, history, geography, and political science.”
Matthew Berland on how we can create environments where learners are supported in developing creative agency, and how we might assess or evaluate success.
