@Concord - Fall 2012
Perspective: Working Together: The Time is Now
Inquiry-based pedagogy and technology-supported teaching and learning are ideas whose time has come.
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Free SmartGraphs Activities Help Students Make Sense of Graphs
SmartGraphs provides scaffolds and hints to students who need help understanding graphs.
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Monday’s Lesson: Modeling Climate Change with MySystem
To make sense of science, students must develop their own mental models of the phenomena to glean what is happening.
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InquirySpace: A Space for Real Science
We want students to understand science by doing their own research projects.
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Molecular Workbench and the Rise of the MOOC
MOOCs are all the rage. However, don't worry if you don’t recognize the acronym. It popped up only last fall.
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Visualizing Earth and Explaining Seasons
What's it like to see the entire globe from another plane of reference?
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Under the Hood: Using WebGL to Accelerate Advanced Physics Simulations in the Browser
Thanks to the rapid advancement of Web technologies—and a bit of ingenuity—we're looking past JavaScript and making use of the power of modern GPUs
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Innovator Interview: Pendred Noyce
Dr. Pendred Noyce served on Concord Consortium's Board of Directors from 1997 to 2012.
News at the Concord Consortium
Earth's Systems and Sustainability, Geniverse and Whyville Combine Forces, Graph Literacy, Back to School Webcast and more.
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