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An interview with the Concord Consortium’s Dan Damelin.
In a project sponsored by the Noyce Foundation, teachers at an innovative new high school will adopt and modify our probe- and model-based science activities. Schools for the Future Academy opened this month in Jacksonville, Florida, serving students who are behind academically.
Senior Research Scientist Andy Zucker comments on the U.S. Department of Education’s “misguided” and “irrational” policy requiring security screenings of education researchers working under contract. Sociological and psychological research sheds light on people’s behavior when faced with requirements such as these screenings.
An interview with Charles Xie, creator of the Molecular Workbench software.
Molecular Workbench was awarded a Science Prize for Online Resources in Education. SPORE has been established by the American Association for the Advancement of Science to “encourage innovation and excellence in education, as well as to encourage the use of high-quality on-line resources by students, teachers, and the public.”
Springer has just published a new book, Models and Modeling: Cognitive Tools for Scientific Enquiry with a chapter by Charles Xie and Amy Pallant. “The Molecular Workbench Software: An Innovative Dynamic Modeling Tool for Nanonscience Education“ demonstrates how dynamic modeling of nanoscale phenomena based on first principles provides a direct approach to making nanoscience more accessible and teachable in the classroom.
The Journal of Chemical Education selected Concord Consortium’s “IR magician” Dr. Charles Xie’s paper titled “Visualizing Chemistry with Infrared Imaging” as the cover article of the July 2011 issue.
Concord Consortium’s senior research scientist Andy Zucker says that improving education is not rocket science – it’s much harder than that!
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).