the destination of my Dream

今天看到申请MIT不需要gre成绩，就兴冲冲的去逛了一圈。MIT的主页三年前就查过一边，总觉得MIT是那群大牛才去的，我们这个专业就应该是那些coder高手，今天又看一边，用了主页搜索，没搜到特别好的信息，最后还是到了自己最感兴趣的media lab。看它所有的research programm。突然，突然看到了lifelong kindergarden……

这个不就是自己想要的吗？无论是LEGO，还有intel的电脑俱乐部（也是它的feature project），还有现在做的关于askmobi的一些尝试。

看看它的使命

The Lifelong Kindergarten group is fortunate to be located within the MIT Media Lab, a hotbed of creative activity. In one corner of the Media Lab, students are designing new musical instruments. In another corner, students are designing new social-networking software. This type of activity makes the Media Lab not just a good research lab, but a good place for learning, since people learn a great deal when they are actively engaged in designing, creating, and inventing things.

Unfortunately, most children don’t get the opportunity to engage in these types of creative activities. In school, they learn specific facts and skills, but rarely get the opportunity to design things –- or to learn about the process of designing things. Outside school, they interact with electronic toys and games, but they don’t learn how to invent new ones.

In the Lifelong Kindergarten group, we’re trying to change that. We believe that it is critically important for all children, from all backgrounds, to grow up knowing how to design, create, and express themselves. We are inspired by the ways children learn in kindergarten: when they create pictures with finger paint, they learn how colors mix together; when they create castles with wooden blocks, they learn about structures and stability. We want to extend this kindergarten style of learning, so that learners of all ages continue to learn through a process of designing, creating, experimenting, and exploring.

Our ultimate goal is a world full of playfully creative people who are constantly inventing new opportunities for themselves and their communities.

设计，创造，表现自己！
这是一个不大的group，但是它的每个研究方向都让我流口水，我们中国的孩子就不能有享受了吗？还好它们和香港有些合作，是一个叫LEAD的项目。我觉得这个方向比一般的教育学院更适合我，毕竟我是一个学工科的学生，我的gre有目标了！