MIT PK12 Action Group

Strategic Education Initiatives in MIT’s Office of Digital Learning is leading the MIT PreK-12 Initiative with collaborators across MIT.

Drawing on the recommendations in the Future of MIT Education Task Force Report, the new PreK-12 Initiative will bring MIT’s unique learning approach beyond the campus to pre K-12 learners and teachers around the world, building upon existing efforts and developing new ones. The Initiative will fill a growing need in STEM education by initiating new research, design, and outreach programs that will transform how students—and our understanding of how students learn. It will engage MIT faculty, staff, students, and researchers in pursuing two major, interrelated goals:

• Changing the World through Learning: Bringing the MIT hands-on, minds-on approach to pre K-12 learners and teachers through the development of new technologies, services, and curricula. These will range from low-cost laboratory instruments and innovative computing environments to new strategies for connecting learners around the world.
• Changing the World of Learning: Advancing understanding of what we know about teaching and learning through a diverse set of research methodologies, from basic cognitive science and neuroscience to design-based research and classroom experiments.