In addition, it makes possible epistemological diversity, empowering of students and fulfillment to teachers, reinforcing the community's own livelihood. Actively promoting a unique, antidisciplinary culture, the MIT Media Lab encourages an unconventional mixing and matching of seemingly disparate research areas. Since opening its doors in 1985, the Lab has pioneered such areas as wearable computing, tangible interfaces, and (MIT - Center for Reflective Community Practice)This thesis proposes a framework to model intervention in education systems using technology: the Learning Atmosphere. The motivation is to show that innovative learning with expressive technologies can happen even in economically disadvantaged regions, such as public education systems in Brazil, where our case studies took place. MITs Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) offers a world-class education that combines thorough analysis with hands-on discovery.
Thanks so much for being with us this morning.MARTIN: I understand you met with Joi Ito in his office on Friday. Arwa joins us now from Cambridge, Mass. She wrote an op-ed in the campus newspaper last month. I told Peter Cohen that he was a convicted pedophile, that this was well-known.MARTIN: Even before all that came out, MIT graduate student Arwa Mboya had already been demanding that Ito resign. And she says Epstein came up in her conversations with the director of development, Peter Cohen.SIGNE SWENSON: It was described to me that Joi has a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and that they were cultivating him as a donor to the lab.
He said he wanted to fix the mess that he had made. He said the only place we disagree is that he should resign.MARTIN: And his argument as to why he shouldn't resign? What did he say?MBOYA: Restorative justice. And he said he wanted to work with me to hold him accountable. He thanked me for my criticism. He told me he took - completely agrees with everything that I've said. What did he tell you then?MBOYA: We had a good conversation.
And she said this about her struggle to accept MIT's financial ties with Epstein.SWENSON: I felt like I was complicit, that, ultimately, I was powerless to actually change anything. Again, Swenson Winston is the whistleblower in this case. So I didn't think that it would make him step down at all.MARTIN: So you don't have any indication as to what changed his mind?MBOYA: I think the blowover with the media once Ronan wrote that article is what made him change his mind.MARTIN: I want to play another clip from the interview that our colleague Lulu Garcia-Navarro did with Signe Swenson over the weekend. But to me, all that information wasn't that new. I really respect Ronan Farrow and Signe for coming forward.
But everyone has to be able to speak their piece.MARTIN: Arwa Mboya is a master's student at MIT's Media Lab. I think we still deserve a town hall that could take up to six hours, if need be. We need to think about, what do we stand for when we say that we're a future factory? And it has to reflect not just technology but society and the future of women.MARTIN: And do you think the student population there has been heard?MBOYA: Not yet. I think we as a community need to reassess our values. I mean, from that perspective, what else do you think needs to happen?MBOYA: You know, I'm optimistic, actually. You're still a student there.
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