Information technologies—networked computers, software, and online communities—can provide incredible new resources for professional development. What is effective professional development? Too often, professional development focuses separately on either increasing teacher content…
…distribution. Though the new ideas derived from federally funded work have very important impact on their own, it’s hard to sidestep the argument that federal funding supports many quality educational…
…Students sit around shiny new computers, only to build PowerPoint presentations. Miles of high-bandwidth cabling snake to and from the nation’s schools, but pulse far too often with simple WebQuests…
One of the Concord Consortium’s focus areas involves determining new ways to understand deep student learning of skills and processes such as science practices and engineering design. We’ve pioneered this…
…scientific phenomena. We hope to emerge with new insights for the field of embodied cognition and its direct application to new learning environments. Nathan Kimball (nkimball@concord.org) directs the GRASP project…
…a new urgency to teaching and learning about the skills and concepts of data science. Two years ago, we noted in these pages that educators had only begun to conceive…
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…
…of activities nudging you to move outside your comfort zone and explore new genres of art or recommending the next curiosity to examine. The Conference on Mobile Position Awareness Systems…
…a new way.” He wants to awaken the “inner scientist” in everyone, not just students. His own upbringing was a template for igniting a child’s curiosity. His mother was an…
…home appliance. As they did, it became clear that they would transform all aspects of modern life. This new age demanded new thinking, and a 1999 National Research Council report…