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…
…GIS-based web application to analyze real data on environmental impacts related to land use, water quantity/quality, and local socioeconomic impacts. The new Model My Watershed app (MMW v2) brings new…
…decades. Today, AI is crunching vast amounts of data, creating pathways to new solutions for seemingly intractable problems, and offering new opportunities for education. Thirty years has seen extraordinary advances…
Travel offers a portal to many things, but perhaps the most fascinating is the perspective it provides on how humans approach design. To visit a new place is to bear…
We are living in an exceptional new technological era. Yet looks can be deceiving. In fact, what most strongly defines our current age is not all the new technology we…
…checklist of to-do’s up front so participants can feel confident they are on track. Offer an optional virtual meeting to practice new communication skills and features, such as using chat,…
…are rarely given the opportunity to do their own sensemaking in Earth science, and thus do not develop deep understanding of the content. New standards and new tools require new…
…rest, she says, is history. She now teaches 7th and 8th grade general science to ENL (English as a New Language) students in the Freeport Public Schools in Freeport, New…
…median(), but it’s a black box for students new to statistics. Instead, we’re going to find median the Common Core way by emphasizing algorithmic thinking. First, write down the steps…