…design and technology experts at the Concord Consortium. We are collaborating with middle school youth and science teachers from two predominantly Latinx middle schools in New Brunswick, New Jersey, to…
…a percentage of female income?” With this new challenge, students return to the data and make new graphs (Figure 5). Figure 5. Graph of sex versus income-wages for 2017 and…
…when the student can modify a small portion of the code and run it to check the new output, or minimal scaffolding when the student follows examples to add new…
…and reevaluate their initial arguments. Students revisit their responses in the first activity, making changes to their arguments as they gather new information. Importantly, they also learn that scientists continually…
…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…
…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…