…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…
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…