Category: 2011
As the 18th century British chemist Sir Humphry Davy put it, “nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.” True for infrared imaging, especially when it is used as an educational tool to advance …
Andy Zucker, author of Transforming Schools with Technology: How Smart Use of Digital Tools Helps Achieve Six Key Education Goals and a senior research scientist at the Concord Consortium, gives a thumbs up to Spotlight in Technology in Education.
Our High-Adventure Science research characterizes uncertainty associated with middle school students’ scientific arguments. Read paper presented at the April meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST). Our Evolution Readiness project presented Getting Kids to Understand Evolution: First-Year Implementation Results at the April conference of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).
Over 90 ninth grade students pilot tested our Engineering Energy Efficiency curriculum in a Massachusetts school in March. They built standard model houses, learned about conduction, convection, and radiation using probes and Energy2D simulations, then designed their own model houses.
An interview with Concord Consortium Senior Scientist Paul Horwitz.
Paul Horwitz, Trudi Lord, and Cynthia McIntyre present the Evolution Readiness curriculum at the New England Educational Research Organization on April 28 at 10:15 a.m. in New Bedford, MA.
I started thinking about how to more easily specify some of the deeply nested structures we need during testing. First we already have a step for doing this. An example which looks like this: And the following investigations with multiple choices exist: | investigation | activity | section | page | multiple_choices | image_questions | […]
Formaldehyde has many industrial uses–in particle board, plywood, carpet, and adhesives, to name just a few. Formaldehyde is toxic to life–the reason that it’s used as a disinfectant–and the reason that many countries have banned the use of formaldehyde in furniture and housing materials and promote the styles you can find in Archute catalog. But […]
Three sessions at the 2011 AERA (American Educational Research Association) Conference showcase the Concord Consortium’s projects. Come learn about our Evolution Readiness and Universal Design for Learning projects.
In the past two days the New York Times has provided readers with six fascinating articles and discussions about online learning. One set is called Room for Debate: Can Young Students Learn from Online Classes and the other is a front-page article in yesterday’s paper: More Pupils are Learning Online, Fueling Debate on Quality. The […]