abstract:The language laboratory is an audio or audio-visual installation used as an aid in modern language teaching. They can be found, amongst other places, in schools, universities, and academies.
"The Purdue Online Writing Lab is a sizeable collection of workshops,worksheets, instructional materials in both English language and in various genres in which students and people working in the world are expected to write."
VOA: special.2010.02.11
Mindstorms uses an easy-to-learn (yet plenty powerful) icon-based programming language, which is loosely based around Logo, an educational language developed at MIT's media lab.
Light-based communication seems to wind throughout the MIT Media Lab -- it is a universal language, after all, since many devices output light, be it with a dedicated LED or a standard LCD, and have the capacity to view and interpret it.