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One of the "hottest" educational technology research and design centers in the world is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab. The lab is currently working on several projects. One, for instance, involves recreating toys as artificial intelligences. Michael Resnik's team is in full swing, creating such things as "Programmable Bricks."

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On another front, The emerging communications forces are making a deep, lasting transformation of education both feasible and necessary. A consortium- led by the Center for Collaborative Education (CCE) and the Institute for Learning Technologies (ILT) at Columbia University- has joined together to demonstrate how children contending with poverty, discrimination, and urban crowding can achieve world-class education standards when liberated by fundamental efforts at school reform, empowered by the full use of advanced digital information.  
The goal is to develop and implement a high profile, large scale technology learning challenge- the Eiffel Project- that will demonstrate that the small schools reform movement, empowered with advanced media, can break the constraints of the traditional school, thereby enabling all children to achieve unprecedented levels of excellence.

The consortium intends to improve the educational experience of disadvantaged children dramatically by connecting an increasing number of New York's urban K-12 schools to the information superhighway, developing and implementing innovative curricular strategies, and providing effective teacher professional development, all in support of the small schools reform movement. As currently envisioned, by the end of its fifth year, the project will directly benefit over 30,000 students, most from African-American, Latino, immigrant, and economically disadvantaged families in Harlem and Upper Manhattan, the South Bronx, Queens, downtown Brooklyn, as well as Newburgh, NY, and will serve as a national model for new educational processes suited for use in all educational settings.