Category: Author: Concord Consortium
The National Science Foundation has awarded the Concord Consortium a three-year Cyberlearning grant to develop and test new data science games for high school biology, chemistry, and physics, and research how learners conceive of and learn with data. The Data Science Games project builds on prior work, which led to the invention of a new […]
The Concord Consortium is delighted to announce our new Chief Learning Scientist, Janet Kolodner. She is Regents’ Professor Emerita in Computing and Cognitive Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and previously was on loan to the National Science Foundation from 2010 to 2014.
We’re thrilled to be participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for the fourth year running! Two international students will spend the summer coding for our open source projects, and through GSoC, they’ll earn stipends from Google, plus get a coveted GSoC t-shirt and certificate.
Two High-Adventure Science online curriculum lessons are now available on the National Geographic Education website. High-Adventure Science lessons explore questions such as “What is the future of Earth’s climate?” and “What are our energy choices?” and include interactive systems models and real-world data.
Join the Innovative Technology in Science Inquiry (ITSI) team on February 17 for an hour of stimulating chat on using ITSI models in science inquiry activities. Members of our Professional Learning Community will introduce you to model activities, answer your questions about using the ITSI tools and share updates on the new HTML5 format.
Our Common Online Data Analysis Platform (CODAP) allows you to dig deep into the data all around you. Whether you’re investigating data you’ve gathered yourself via probes and sensors, maps of the travel paths of elephant seals and sharks, data streams from a simulation of global climate change or wins and losses from an online […]
Concord Consortium President Emeritus Bob Tinker, his wife Barbara and former member of the board Penny Noyce have authored a book in the Galactic Academy of Science series. The Cryptic Case of the Coded Fair teaches middle school students about encryption while telling a fun and exciting story of history and adventure.
Two international students will spend the summer coding for our open source projects. Through Google Summer of Code™ (GSoC), they’ll earn stipends from Google, plus get a coveted GSoC t-shirt and certificate. Concord Consortium developers will provide mentorship.
The March issue of The Science Teacher features “A New Take on Student Lab Reports” by Ed Hazzard, which describes how students can use screencasts – digital recordings of the computer screen plus audio narration – to report on their computer-based science labs, as an alternative to written reports. This could be an exciting new tool for science teaching.
Four of the nation’s leading research institutions have been awarded a $2.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a new system of classroom assessments that aligns with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).