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  • Understanding Physics through Collaborative Design and Play
    Date: 09/01/2016
    Resource Category: Project Descriptions
    This project had three objectives to build knowledge with respect to advancing Informal STEM Education: Plan, prototype, fabricate, and document a game-linked design-and-play STEM exhibit for multi-generational adult-child interaction utilizing an iterative exhibit design approach based on research and best practices in the field; Develop and ... »
  • Working at the Intersections of Formal and Informal Science and Literacy Education
    Date: 03/01/2016
    Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article
    In this article, we invite you to expand your vision of what it means to work at the intersections of formal and informal science and literacy education by describing how educators have collaborated to create programs that blend science and literacy in schools, in museums, and across these two spaces. In 2012, K–12 teachers from the National ... »
  • The PIE Network: Promoting Science Inquiry and Engineering through Playful Invention and Exploration with New Digital Technologies
    Date: 03/10/2001
    Resource Category: Project Descriptions
    The MIT Media Laboratory, in collaboration with six museums, will develop the "Playful Invention and Exploration (PIE) Network," with the goal of engaging a broader audience in science inquiry and engineering by enabling more people to create, invent and explore with new digital technologies. PIE museums will integrate the latest MIT technologies ... »