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Carolyn Staudt presents Concord Consortium’s science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) projects at the 2011 Massachusetts STEM Summit, “Advancing the STEM Agenda Locally & Nationally,” on October 18 at the Boston Marriott in Newton.
Concord Consortium President Chad Dorsey and Board Member Lev Sviridov will participate in the 2011 Excellence in Action National Summit on Education Reform at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco on October 13-14.
Concord Consortium founder Bob Tinker will be a featured speaker at the California STEM Summit “Sparking Innovation in STEM,” held at UC Davis on October 10 and 11. Bob will describe a deeply digital future using Concord Consortium activities and resources.
“Video games can unleash a learning revolution,” reports the Boston Globe. We agree. That’s why since 1994 we’ve been producing interactive digital activities—like our SPORE award-winning Molecular Workbench—in science and math for grades 4 and up. We’re tapping into the spirit of games to engage learners. And we’re excited to announce that we’ve just been awarded a new grant from the National Science Foundation. GeniGames will add game-based design elements to our Geniverse software. Students can learn about genetics by solving games of dragons and drakes.
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.