…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…
…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…
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…
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…
…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…
…research its use. Probes and sensors bring a new dimension to hands-on learning, eliminating tedious lab processes and extending learners’ senses to provide new views of everyday phenomena that unfold…
…the content of the new materials, the pedagogy, and the technology. Cost: $100 million. Significant professional development for every teacher. A coordinated program would train every K-12 teacher through trainers,…
…nicely and gets the basics right, it is interesting to note the nuances that are missed. New platforms and new media permit new messages and new opportunities. That is some…
…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…