Since 1997, we’ve shared stories, classroom-ready activities, and research results through our print newsletter. It’s now time to turn the page. Although we will no longer publish new print editions of @CONCORD, you can continue to revisit all our past issues below.
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@Concord Winter 2025
- Perspective: Historic Innovations in Educational Technology
- Data Science, AI, and You in Healthcare
- Monday’s Lesson: Immigration Data and the Great American Melting Pot
- Building STEM Identity Through YouthQuake
- Using Sound to Enhance Data Interpretation
- Alaskan Students Profile Their Local Beach
- Under the Hood: Exploring Markov Chains with Animated Graphs in CODAP
- Teacher Innovator Interview: Christina Chin
- News at Concord Consortium
@Concord Spring 2024
- Perspective: The History and Future of Technology Paradigms
- New Data Types and New Data Interfaces
- Isles of Ilkmaar: A Multiplayer Game for Teaching Data Science
- Three Decades of Educational Innovations
- Capturing Moths and Studying Data Science
- Navigating the World of Units in M2Studio
- Under the Hood: Sensemaking Rubrics for AI
- Teacher Innovator Interview: Marian Murembya
- News at Concord Consortium
@Concord Fall 2023
- Perspective: The Nature of Innovation and Educational Technology Design
- The State of Data Science Education: Where It’s Headed and Why It Matters
- Monday’s Lesson: Are We There Yet?
- Building Capacity for 3D Assessment and Instruction in Elementary Classrooms
- Critical Tools for Solving Today’s Complex Problems
- Data Stories and Interdisciplinary Project-Based Learning
- Under the Hood: DataCard Deck
- Teacher Innovator Interview: Renee Green
- News at Concord Consortium
@Concord Spring 2023
- Perspective: AI and the Future of Education
- Making Connections: Rocks & Tectonics
- Monday’s Lesson: All About Basalt
- Engaging Multiple Perspectives in Alaskan and Hawaiian Classrooms
- Systems Engineering: Design Challenges for the Internet of Things
- Data Detectives Clubs Combine Narrative, Data, and Sound
- Under the Hood: New CODAP Plugin Displays Hierarchical Data
- Teacher Innovator Interview: Rachel Folger
- News at Concord Consortium
@Concord Fall 2022
- Perspective: Taking Pandemic Lessons Learned into the Future
- How Do Teachers in Networks Use Digital Resources?
- Monday’s Lesson: When It Rains, Does It Always Pour?
- K-12 Data Science Education: A Recipe for Success
- Developing a Modeling Orientation to Science
- Math Modeling with M2Studio
- Under the Hood: Using Brain Signals in a Block Programming Environment
- Teacher Innovator Interview: Jessica Sudah
- News at Concord Consortium
@Concord Spring 2022
- Perspective: Science Starts with Wonder
- Exploring Artificial Intelligence with StoryQ
- Monday’s Lesson: Tephra in the Wind
- Addressing Socioscientific Issues While Studying Natural Hazards
- Data Story Bytes: Examining Healthy Food Through Data
- Can Elementary Students Reason About the Invisible?
- Under the Hood: Characterizing Systems Model Structure
- Teacher Innovator Interview: Julia Wilson
- News at Concord Consortium
@Concord Fall 2021
- Perspective: Technology for Today’s Innovators, and Tomorrow’s
- Indicators of Data Fluency: What Am I Looking For?
- Monday’s Lesson: Determine Stream Health
- The Bardic Bot: Integrating AI and ELA Education via Poetic Meter
- Partnering with Seventh Graders to Design a Community-based Life Science Curriculum Unit
- SageModeler Offers Two System Modeling Approaches
- Under the Hood: Three New CODAP Plugins
- Innovator Interview: Chris Lore
- News at Concord Consortium
@Concord Spring 2021
- Perspective: An Exercise in Humility
- Integrating Technology and Science: Preparing Students for the World They Live In
- Monday’s Lesson: When Disaster Strikes
- Everything Happens for a Reason: Developing Causal Mechanistic Reasoning of Plate Tectonics
- Share and Share Alike: New tools for tracking and supporting knowledge co-construction in mathematics classrooms
- Technology-Enhanced Assessments for NGSS Classrooms
- Under the Hood: A New Engine for Modeling Biological Processes
- Innovator Interview: Steve Roderick
- News at Concord Consortium
@Concord Fall 2020
- Perspective: Is Remote Learning a Panacea for the Pandemic?
- Learning Everywhere During a Pandemic
- Monday’s Lesson: Finding Your Watershed
- Students Learn Genetics with Geniventure
- Mathematical Modeling of Real-World Problems
- Independent Experimentation for the Remote Classroom
- Under the Hood: Improving Accessibility of Activities
- Innovator Interview: Leslie Bondaryk
- News at Concord Consortium
@Concord Spring 2020
- Perspective: Environments for Coherent, Inquiry-based Learning
- Teaching Computational Thinking Through Weather Prediction in Alaskan Villages
- Monday’s Lesson: Demystifying Punnett Squares with ConnectedBio
- Sensors and Spinach: Increasing Student Agency in Biology Class
- Writing Data Stories
- Invitation to the Future of Energy Education
- Under the Hood: Sharing Real-time Collaborative Documents
- Innovator Interview: Sarah Haavind
- News at Concord Consortium
@Concord Earth Science Winter 2020
- Perspective: Transforming Earth Science Education with Technology
- Doing Geosciences the Way Scientists Do
- Seismic Shifts in Supporting Teachers in Earth Science Classrooms
- Exploring the Spread of Wildfires and Interpreting Their Risks
- Visualizing Geohazards and Risk with Code
- Can We Feed a Growing Population? Using Simulations to Engage Students
- Making Uncertainty Accessible to Science Students
- Earth Science Resources
@Concord Fall 2019
- Engaging in Computational Thinking Through System Modeling
- Monday’s Lesson: Zoom In! Teaching Science with Data
- Automating Detection of Engineering Design Practices in Energy3D
- Young Children Explore the Particle World with Apps
- Investigating Smart Museum Exhibits
- Under the Hood: Sharing the Sky in an AR Planetarium
Plus Perspective, Innovator Interview and News at Concord Consortium
@Concord Spring 2019
- Designing a Digital Collaborative Mathematics Classroom Using a Problem-Based Curriculum
- Integrating Computational Thinking in STEM
- Why Everyone Can and Should be a Scientist
- Automated Scoring Helps Student Argumentation
- A Virtual Storm Teaches Computational Thinking
- Under the Hood: What Do We Do When There’s Too Much Data to Look At?
Plus Perspective, Innovator Interview and News at Concord Consortium
@Concord Fall 2018
- The InquirySpace Model of Scientific Experimentation
- Monday’s Lesson: Using Artificial Intelligence to Design a Solar Farm
- Exploring the Essential Elements of Data Science Education
- A Dashing New Look into Dragon Genetics
- Solving Big Problems Requires Understanding Complex Systems
- Under the Hood: Using Raspberry Pis and WiFis to Do More with Data
Plus Perspective, Innovator Interview and News at Concord Consortium
@Concord Spring 2018
- What Happens When Students Try to Work Collaboratively?
- Monday’s Lesson: Finding Median in R the Common Core Way
- Paper Mechatronics: A Case for Craft-based Engineering Education
- Developing Watershed Stewards
- Connecting Genetics and Evolution with 3D Learning
- Under the Hood: Localizations with POEditor
Plus Perspective, Innovator Interview and News at Concord Consortium
@Concord Fall 2017
- The Data Science Education Revolution
- Experimenting with Extended Reality in our Innovation Lab
- Monday’s Lesson: The STEM Resource Finder
- Science Thinking for Tomorrow Today
- The Challenge to Solarize the World
- Under the Hood: Sensors in the Browser with Web Bluetooth
Plus Perspective, Innovator Interview and News at Concord Consortium
@Concord Spring 2017
- Artificial Intelligence Research for Engineering Design
- Monday’s Lesson: Exploring Data with the Ramp Game
- Using Technology to Enhance NGSS-Aligned Assessment Tasks for Classroom Formative Use
- Modeling Plate Tectonics for Learning
- Sensing Science through Modeling Matter
- Under the Hood: Weaving Collaboration into Code
Plus Perspective, Innovator Interview and Growing the Data Science Education Field
@Concord Fall 2016
- Learning to Build a Sustainable World
- Monday’s Lesson: Students Making Models
- Dragons Rule After School: Helping Students Prepare for Biotech Careers
- Data Science Games
- Integrating Knowledge Across Virtual Worlds
- Under the Hood: Hands-on Interactive Activities with Leap Motion
Plus Perspective, Innovator Interview and News at Concord Consortium
@Concord Spring 2016
- GRASPing Invisible Concepts
- Monday’s Lesson: Can You Filter Your Water
- Can a Robot Help Students Write Better Scientific Arguments?
- Supporting Secondary Students in Building External Models to Explain Phenomena
- The Challenge of an Open-Ended Design Challenge
- Under the Hood: Creating Multi-User Activities with Firebase
Plus Perspective, Innovator Interview and News at Concord Consortium
@Concord Fall 2015
@Concord Spring 2015
- Great Questions Make for Great Science Education
- Monday’s Lesson: Graph Literacy: Interpolation
- Analytics and Student Learning: An Example from InquirySpace
- Teaching Teamwork in Electronics
- From Ship to Shore: Telepresence Research
- Under the Hood: Embedding a Simulation in CODAP
Plus Perspective, Innovator Interview and Data and Analytics Spotlight
@Concord Fall 2014
- Innovative Technology in Science Inquiry
- Monday’s Lesson: Exploring Atomic Structure
- Ocean Research Using Telepresence
- Using Social Networking to Learn Genetics
- Developing Assessments for the NGSS
- Under the Hood: Rapid Gameplay Prototyping
Plus Perspective, Innovator Interview and News at the Concord Consortium
@Concord Spring 2014
- Visualizing Student Learning
- Monday’s Lesson: Modeling an Agricultural System
- From Museum to After School: Tracking Learning Across Boundaries
- Sensing Science: Temperature and Heat Readiness for Early Elementary Students
- Dragons Go Wild
- Under the Hood: Interactive API
Plus Perspective, Innovator Interview and Common Online Data Analysis Platform
@Concord Fall 2013
- Rhode Island Students Score High on Inquiry
- Monday’s Lesson: Dragons in Social Media
- Molecular Modeling in Cyberspace
- Understanding Graphs Step by Step
- Intermolecular Interactions are Key to Understanding
- Under the Hood: In-browser Image Capture with Shutterbug
Plus Perspective, Innovator Interview and News at the Concord Consortium
@Concord Spring 2013
- Molecular Workbench and the New Standards
- Monday’s Lesson: Seeing Heat Transfer
- Meet NGSS with Concord Consortium Activities
- The Future of Fracking: Exploring Human Energy Use
- Mixed Reality Brings Science Concepts to Life
- Under the Hood: Inputs and Outputs to Next-Generation MW Interactives
Plus Perspective, Innovator Interview and Find your path through the NGSS
@Concord Fall 2012
- Free SmartGraphs Activities Help Students Make Sense of Graphs
- Monday’s Lesson: Modeling Climate Change with MySystem
- InquirySpace: A Space for Real Science
- Molecular Workbench and the Rise of the MOOC
- Visualizing Earth and Explaining Seasons
- Under the Hood: Using WebGL to Accelerate Advanced Physics Simulations in the Browser
Plus Perspective, Innovator Interview and News at Concord Consortium
@Concord Spring 2012
- LOOPS Offers a Lens on Learning
- Monday’s Lesson: Build and Test a Model Solar House
- Framing Mixed-Reality Labs
- A Drake’s Tale: Genetics Software Gets a Lift from Gaming
- Disruptive Science Coming Soon to Your Phone and Tablet
- Under the Hood: Streaming Arduino Data to a Browser
Plus Perspective, Innovator Interview and News at Concord Consortium
@Concord Fall 2011
- Engineering Energy Efficiency with a Green Building Model Kit
- Monday’s Lesson: Asking Big Questions about Our Solar System
- Beginning with BIG IDEAS: Are Students Ready for Evolution?
- An Example of Deeply Digital Curricula: Detergents
- Atoms, Molecules, and More with the Molecular Workbench
- Probes Give Students a Sixth Sense
Plus Perspective, Innovator Interview and News at Concord Consortium
@Concord Spring 2011
- Looking at the Evidence: What we know. How certain are we?
- Monday’s Lesson: Digital Inquiry in the One-Computer Classrooms
- Inspiring Young Scientists with Innovative Tools
- SmartGraphs Software Helps Students Learn Using Graphs
- Connecting Energy Across the Curriculum
- Blogging About Breeding Evidence
Plus Perspective, Innovator Interview and News at Concord Consortium
@Concord Fall 2010
- Ready, Set, Go Evolution!
- Quantum Chemistry at Your Fingertips
- Visualizing Dissolving with IR Imaging
- Student-Teacher Feedback LOOPS Promote Inquiry
- Molecular Literacy in the Science Classroom
- Probes, Models, and UDL in the Elementary Science Classroom
Plus Perspective, Innovator Interview and News at Concord Consortium
@Concord Winter 2009
- Letter from Our President
- How Can Less Be More?
- Community-Authored Resources for Education
- Monday’s Lesson: What’s So Smart About a Graph?
- Technology and Effective Professional Development
- Can They Do It or Do They Just Know How to Do It?
- Lost in Cyberspace: A Review of Disrupting Class
- News at Concord Consortium
Plus Perspective and News at Concord Consortium