Connection + Construction

CoCo - Being. Creative. Together

A calm, collaborative learning platform for young people to engage in...
  • Being.
  • Creative.
  • Together.
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...in the era of AI

Join creators and educators from 85+ countries!

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Co-imagined and co-created with love and care by a tiny team of MIT PhD Researchers

cocreate iconCo-Create Stories, Multiplayer Games, Animations, Videos β€” WITH PEERS IN REAL-TIME!

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See Little Language Models in action

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Little Language Models
Explore foundational ideas underlying Generative AI models by building your own 'little models' with your own little data.
Realtime Co-Creation
Build creative projects with peers in a shared digital space. Interact and play with your friends' projects in real-time.
Blocks / Text Co-Coding
Code together with peers in live block-based and text-based coding environments (built on top of Scratch 3.0 and p5.js).
Safe Private Communities
Start a private community for your classroom, after-school club, or a group of friends. Create any number of spaces with peers.
Collaborative Projects
Code multiplayer games, collaborative stories, art, animations, or physical computing projects with Micro:bit, Makey Makey, LEGO Robotics, and more.
Live Remixing
Discover the magic of live remixing. Drag and drop code or assets from your friend's project into your own project in real-time.
Built-in Video and Audio
No separate video calling platform required for remote collaboration. Create new kinds of shared programmable video experiences with peers.
Self-less Social Platform
No individual profiles, no collecting likes or followers, no metrics for comparison. Just a peaceful place for β€” being. creative. together.
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Feedback from children and educators
"You’ve made a platform that’s human in ways that few platforms even think to consider."
"I have honestly not stopped thinking about its transformative potential to fundamentally change teaching and learning."
"By introducing probabilistic thinking and AI concepts in an engaging and accessible way, CoCo can help children develop foundational skills that are crucial for their future."
"As an educator, the problems that we are trying to solve for, this is exactly it. We run thousands of workshops a year for youth and educators. I think this serves such a need!"
"I think that CoCo is... AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!! 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍"
"This opens a whole new way to collaborate on creative computing projects!"
"Little Language Models is such a playful and important way of learning about probabilistic thinking! This is such a refreshing change from purely one-way, passive, instructionist classes of using tools like ChatGPT that I see being implemented in schools and courses."
"This was thrilling and surprising! I loved the welcoming interface. The experience of being able to create while viewing other peers' projects made collaborating much easier. I didn’t know such evolution was possible!"

bulb iconLearn more about the ideas and values underlying CoCo

We consciously chose to design the CoCo space as a shared digital space for co-creating projects in real-time and not necessarily for collaborating on the same project in real-time.

Collaboration often exclusively implies working together, but a 'shared space' more generally implies being together and hence is inclusive of collaboration as one of the ways of engaging with others but not the only way. There is no denying that collaborating with others can be a really joyful, productive, and energy-giving experience, but it does not always work well for everyone involved. The reasons can be many--not being able to learn and work at your own pace, not feeling comfortable to express yourself in the group, feeling or being judged, someone hogging the work, perceptions of unfairness in contributions and credit, and other negative feelings that can sometimes arise out this experience.

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Thank you for your interestβ€”we are excited to share beta invites soon!

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mit picπŸ‘‹ Hi, we are MASH (Manuj Dhariwal + Shruti Dhariwal). We're both currently PhD candidates at MIT Media Lab in the Lifelong Kindergarten group. We've been recipients of LEGO Papert Fellowship for our research at the intersection of creativity, learning, play, and new technologies, and have been working together across these areas for over a decade (MIT News).

We began conceptualizing and developing the ideas of CoCo back in 2019, early on in our PhD. We've always believed that the core values underlying CoCoβ€”beingness, creativeness, and togethernessβ€”are timeless in essence but they have also become especially timely.

We feel deeply committed to cultivating these values and making CoCo available for communities of young people and educators everywhere. We are currently a small but dedicated team of threeβ€”with Rishit Bansal joining us in mid-2023, bringing his software engineering expertise to the CoCo platform. If you’re a kindred spirit who resonates with these ideas and would like to help support this work in any way, please send us a note. We’ll be waiting to get a signal from you :)

Here’s to being. creative. together.β€” always, but especially in the era of AI.

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