…quotes were written about the power of modern AI. However, the first, penned in a New York Times story about the earliest successful test of a transatlantic telegraph cable, is…
…technology, new curriculum, and new research that contributes innovative ideas and products to further the field of STEM education. When we are awarded an NSF grant, it is our duty…
…and the tectonic conditions under which rocks form. The new version of the Rocks & Tectonics module incorporates new interactive feedback mechanisms designed to support students at every step of…
…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…
…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,…
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…