MIT Programmable Brick
The Programmable Brick has been developed at the MIT Media Laboratory by Fred Martin,
Randy Sargent and Brian Silverman, with the guidance of Professors Seymour Papert and
Mitchel Resnick. It is part of the ongoing LEGO/LOGO research project at the Epistemology
and Learning Group at the MIT Media Laboratory. The aim is to develop classroom activities for elementary through high school students using the MIT Programmable Brick, collaborating with the Rhode Island School of the Future (RISF), an organisation of teachers dedicated to bringing constructivist learning environments to children across Rhode Island. About 40 Programmable Bricks are currently in use at school sites and other locations. It builds on
a foundation of earlier MIT (external) research on children and technology.
In this project small computers connect to the real world through various sensors and actuators and are especially designed to be used by children. They can be used in robot-design activities, data-gathering experiments, and ubiquitous computing projects (for which computational power is embedded in everyday objects).
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