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When 14-year-old Jahzhia Moralez played a vocabulary game that involved jumping onto her friend like a backpack, she knew Itz'at STEAM Academy wasn’t like other schools in Belize. Transferring from a school that assigned nearly four hours of homework
Itz’at STEAM Academy uses an innovative pedagogical framework co-created by MIT pK-12, part of Open Learning. The school’s launch is the culmination of a three-year project between MIT and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science, and Technology of Belize.
MIT’s Jameel World Education Lab has awarded more than $900k in Education Innovation Grants to researchers exploring electrical engineering, extended reality, physical movement, ecological sustainability, and other topics.
Across the United States, universities and school districts are scrambling to get a handle on new chatbots that can generate humanlike texts and images. Other teachers are leveraging the innovations to spur more critical classroom thinking.
Move over, coding. Some schools are asking student programmers to think critically about rapid advances in artificial intelligence.