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Amy Pallant discusses the role of uncertainty in student scientific argumentation at the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST). Based on the High-Adventure Science project, which engages students in unanswered questions in science, she presents “Characterizing Uncertainty Associated with Middle School Students’ Scientific Arguments“ on Sunday, April 3, at 2:45 p.m.
Over 100 high school students tried their hand with virtual breadboards at yesterday’s Engineering Day at Tidewater Community College thanks to an electronics videogame developed by the SPARKS (Simulations for Performance Assessments that Report on Knowledge and Skills) project.
Concord Consortium senior scientist Paul Horwitz describes games in the context of authentic assessment.
President Obama praised the virtues of educational technology during a March 8 visit to TechBoston Academy, one of six schools in the New England area piloting the Concord Consortium’s Geniverse software.
The Concord Consortium’s Paul Horwitz, director of the Evolution Readiness project, is a commentator for Education Week this week.
The Concord Consortium President, Chad Dorsey, will give a featured presentation on the first morning of The National Science Teachers Association conference in San Francisco.
Amy Pallant, Sarah Pryputniewicz, and Hee-Sun Lee describe the High-Adventure Science investigations in the March issue of The Science Teacher. The investigations stimulate students to think critically in order to explore the evidence and discuss the issues of certainty with the models and data. High-Adventure Science has obtained impressive learning results where students showed significant improvement in their understanding of science content and argumentation skills.
If you’re heading to San Francisco for the CyTSE conference on March 8 and 9, look for Concord Consortium staff at the following presentations: Serious Games for STEM Learning, Learning From and With Data, The Molecular Workbench, Innovative Technology in Science Inquiry, and Inquiry in the Digital Age – Enhancing Science Learning using Computer Models.
The Concord Consortium will be attending and presenting at the NSTA conference in March 2011. We look forward to seeing you at our sessions. Add the following sessions to your conference schedule.
The Concord Consortium’s Paul Horwitz and Evolution Readiness advisory board member Louise Mead of the BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action discuss “the evolution of teaching evolution“ in a February 7 article originally published in the Hechinger Report.