Tag Archives: Science learning

DIP: Collaborative Research: Social Robots as Mechanisms for Language Instruction, Interaction, and Evaluation in Pre-School Children

Cynthia Breazeal, MIT (Award Details) David DeSteno, Northeastern University (Award Details) Paul Harris, Harvard University (Award Details) This project is leveraging emerging technologies in social robotics with recent findings from social, developmental, and cognitive psychology to design, implement, and evaluate a new generation of robots that is capable of interacting with and instructing young learners […]

DIP: BioSourcing: A Crowdsourcing Approach to Increasing Public Understanding in Computational Biosciences

PIs: Kurt Squire, Michael Ferris, Enid Montague, Bilge Mutlu, Benjamin Shapiro University of Wisconsin-Madison Award Details This project explores the hypothesis that compelling learning games based on contemporary science that offer opportunities to contribute to scientific inquiry will lead to increased interest in science, increased career choice of science, increased conceptual understanding of science content, […]