What are independent learners and innovative teachers doing now that deserves support, recognition, and scaling up?
MIT Media Lab had a party on Saturday in Austin, Texas, at the South by Southwest festival to "showcase exciting media innovation projects" along with...
Google Hangouts, a smart way to connect with online groups, seems to be catching on quickly. From President Barack Obama to the MIT Media Lab, people...
Want to print yourself a filigreed bracelet? How about an action figure? Or a tiny to-scale model of the Eiffel Tower? All this and more could be your...
In the trailer for Tim Burton's May remake of "The Dark Shadows," Johnny Depp's character wakes up after a centuries-long sleep and sees a television....
"One may smile, and smile, and be a villain," William Shakespeare, Hamlet Hamlet may have been able to see through a fake smile, but it's hard for...
A pair of graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab have launched MaKey MaKey, a Kickstarter project with a noble goal ...
Forget transferring files via email, flash drives or services like Dropbox. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are working...
Children learn best when they are the designers, builders, navigators, engineering and key operators of their own learning.
I had the recent pleasure of attending TEDYouth, the first-ever TED event for young people.
Many of my mechanical engineering learning experiences at MIT bored me to tears. One exception was an undergraduate course called "Creativity," which possibly influenced my entrepreneurial future.
Joi Ito, a self-taught venture capitalist, former disc-jockey and godson of Timothy Leary, has been named the new head of MIT's prestigious Media Lab....
Turns out the young Barack Obama was teased and taunted -- a telling admission by the leader of the free world that words are as bad (and sometimes worse) than sticks or stones.
Researchers at the Media Lab, are letting their brains crack open, dreaming up big ideas, combining art and science and play, producing and presenting their demos, and inventing their future.
What makes Adrian Grenier's Teenage Paparazzo unique is that it is presented through the eyes a teen and his family. We see, from their point of view, the compelling attractions and insidious risks of celebrity culture.
What type of jobs would you assign if you could mobilize two billion people in major cities in 60 countries around the world?
Freak for sneaks? And math? This pair of tricked-out kicks might tickle your fancy. John Maeda, renowned mathematician, graphic designer and professo...
