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.
A new report from the MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node shows strong results from a two-day AI professional development workshop for secondary teachers in Hong Kong and Macau. Nearly 87% plan to bring AI into their classrooms within a year.
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Comprehensive Report on "AI Professional Development Workshop for Secondary School Teachers" | MIT RAISE
https://raise.mit.edu/news/comprehensive-report-on-ai-professional-development-workshop-for-secondary-school-teachers/
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The latest publication from the MIT RAISE team assesses RAICA, our K-12 project-based AI literacy curriculum that integrates ethics into its framework and instructional resources.
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MIT RAISE partners with Dubai Heights Academy to run hands-on workshops that introduced students in Years 5–10 to emerging technologies:
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How Dubai Heights Academy Students Learned to Build With Emerging Tech | MIT RAISE
https://raise.mit.edu/news/how-dubai-heights-academy-students-learned-to-build-with-emerging-tech/
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"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."
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#dayofai #mitraise #aieducation #educationinnovation #aiforeveryone | MIT RAISE
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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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 […]
https://www.wise-qatar.org/demystifying-ai-evaluating-effectiveness-of-professional-development-at-preparing-k-12-teachers/
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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.
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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...
https://awards.oeglobal.org/awards/2025/board/hal-abelson/
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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."
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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.
https://theconversation.com/what-past-education-technology-failures-can-teach-us-about-the-future-of-ai-in-schools-265172
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“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
https://www.science.org/content/article/ethicists-flirt-ai-review-human-research
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: "Without governance, students receive mixed messages and faculty are left improvising in isolation."
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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.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/avivalegatt/2025/09/18/90-of-college-students-use-ai-higher-ed-needs-ai-fluency-support-now/
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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
https://appinventor.mit.edu/blogs/jeffFreilich/2025/09/10/Kentucky2025
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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...
https://sites.google.com/view/hackathon-ai-k12-learning/home
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6 months ago
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
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ai-easier-deal-if-accepted-wicked-problem
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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
https://k12maker.mit.edu/master-making-in-the-classroom.html
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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
https://raise.mit.edu/news/cynthia-breazeal-time-most-influential-people-in-ai/
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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
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/business/stephanie-shirley-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gE8.SNvc.fbrlhwh9gbTn&smid=url-share
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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?
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Congrats to our Director Cynthia Breazeal and her doctoral student Daniella DiPaola!
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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.
https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/professor-cynthia-breazeal-and-graduate-student-daniella-dipaola-receive-inaugural-serc-seed-grants/
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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...
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Staking our wide open patch of Bluesky!
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