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MIT RAISE: Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education
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An MIT initiative to empower everyone to use AI responsibly, authentically, and with impact.
"We were also honored to work with ministers and government leaders from countries deploying Day of AI curricula nationwide – including from Rwanda, Colombia, and Uzbekistan – and hear insights from others newly engaged." www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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What an incredible two days at the inaugural Day of AI Global Summit, hosted by MIT RAISE and DP World in Dubai last week. The Summit marked the first international edition of MIT RAISE’s Day of AI pr...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Magnificent work on AI professional development for teachers from MIT's Katerina Bagiati, Claudia Urrea, Ph.D., Sharifa AlGhowinem, and Joe Diaz, along with co-authors Selma Talha Jebril, Maimoona Junjunia, and Reem Al-Sulaiti.

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Demystifying AI: Preparing K-12 Teachers To Integrate AI Tools Into Their Practice - WISE
AI technologies have rapidly catalyzed major innovations and breakthroughs in recent years, particularly in generative AI (“genAI”), poised to transform education and workforce. This study by WISE in collaboration with the MIT pK-12 Initiative and MIT RAISE evaluates the effectiveness of short PD courses in preparing K–12 teachers to integrate AI into their teaching practices. The […]
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November 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Congratulations to MIT RAISE co-director Hal Abelson, receiving Open Education's board award!

"Abelson’s impact is not only foundational—it is enduring. His work continues to inspire new generations of open education advocates, technologists and policymakers. awards.oeglobal.org/awards/2025/...
Hal Abelson
Recognized for Lifetime Achievement Hal Abelson’s work promotes knowledge of all forms as a public good, the impact of his work touches most forms of knowledge worldwide. Hal’s work has focused on...
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October 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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"New education technologies are only as powerful as the communities that guide their use. Opening a new browser tab is easy; creating the conditions for good learning is hard." theconversation.com/what-past-ed...
What past education technology failures can teach us about the future of AI in schools
It can take years to collect evidence that shows effective uses of new technologies in schools. Unfortunately, early guesses sometimes go seriously wrong.
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October 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“IRBs are not supposed to be algorithmic,” Fernandez Lynch cautions. “There’s something I think inherently valuable and worth preserving about a group of people carefully deliberating together about whether research participants are being ethically protected.”

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Ethicists flirt with AI to review human research
Large language models could help reduce backlog of study proposals, but critics are wary of entrusting ethics to machines
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September 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
MIT RAISE in @forbes.com: "Without governance, students receive mixed messages and faculty are left improvising in isolation." www.forbes.com/sites/avival...
90% Of College Students Use AI: Higher Ed Needs AI Fluency Support Now
According to more than 1,100 U.S. students across two-year colleges, four-year universities, and graduate programs, 90% of students have used AI academically.
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September 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
At the MIT FutureMakers finale, we were honored to watch a demo from Floyd County School of Innovation students, with their incredible work using App Inventor as part of repurposing abandoned Kentucky coal mines to grow mushrooms for food and pharmaceuticals.

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MIT FutureMakers Workshop Empowers High School Students in Rural Kentucky with Hands-On AI and a Glimpse toward Agricultural Innovation
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September 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Coming up on the 29th at MIT, "join educators, technologists, designers, and researchers for a collaborative hackathon focused on developing practical AI solutions that address real-world challenges in K-12 education."

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AI for K-12 Learning
Event overview Join educators, technologists, designers, and researchers for a collaborative hackathon focused on developing practical AI solutions that address real-world challenges in K-12 education...
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September 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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The threat to assessment from generative artificial intelligence is a “wicked problem” with no “silver bullets”, and universities should approach it “not as a problem to be solved but as a condition to be navigated”, reports John Ross
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AI easier to deal with if accepted as a ‘wicked problem’
No correct solution to the challenge of assessment in the age of generative AI, and academics must be given ‘permission’ to tailor their approaches, Australian researchers say
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September 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
From our friends at the MIT Edgerton Center, applications are now open for "Master Making in the Classroom", helping educators use their school makerspaces to support academic learning in any subject area.

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Master Making in the Classroom
Coaching for Maker Leaders
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August 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Congratulations to our director Cynthia Breazeal!

"In her experience, kids often intuitively understand this. 'When we’re working with actual kids in these actual contexts, you get some hope,' she says.”

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RAISE director Cynthia Breazeal named by TIME one of the "100 Most Influential People in AI" | MIT RAISE
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August 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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@histoftech.bsky.social Am obit of interest that you might have seen already. Gift link:

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Stephanie Shirley, Who Created a Tech World for Women, Dies at 91
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August 22, 2025 at 1:27 AM
What steps would you take to ensure AI-aided writing maintains the diversity of ideas and human spark that makes writing wonderful in the first place?
Opinion | Rise of the Incompetents

We’re not paying enough attention to the dangers AI poses to the competence of our future electorate—and the workforce, Noah B. Goldsher writes. https://bit.ly/3HCzhZi
August 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Congrats to our Director Cynthia Breazeal and her doctoral student Daniella DiPaola!
Professor Cynthia Breazeal and graduate student Daniella DiPaola receive SERC seed grants – MIT Media Lab
These grants aim to inspire MIT researchers to make a meaningful contribution to responsible technology development and deployment.
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August 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
A good reminder that with the focus on the aggregate environmental impact of genAI, we shouldn't overlook the that of other computationally-intensive services, like video streaming.

Not to mention combining them, such as generating a viral video...
We now have some data on the environmental impact per AI prompt:

Gemini: 0.00024 kWh & 0.26 mL water

ChatGPT: 0.0003 kWh & 0.38 mL

...the same energy as one Google search in 2008 & 6 drops of water. Seems to be improving, too: Google reports a 33x drop in energy use per prompt in a year.

But...
August 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Staking our wide open patch of Bluesky!
August 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM