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…
…is large enough to be self-sustaining. Our new ITSI Scale-Up project represents a national expansion of prior work that can provide the required testbed. This five-year project provides research-based science…
Remote Professional Development: Using a System Modeling Tool for 3D Teaching and Learning Blog Post
Modeling is key to how scientists help explain complex phenomena—from the coronavirus pandemic to climate change—and explore scientific and engineering problems. The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) recognize the importance…
Importance Integrating computing into STEM courses is essential for our society’s future. Whether one looks to complex societal problems, manufacturing and financial innovation, or simply consumer trends, computing lies at…
…the R programming language (Figure 2). Figure 2. Students create math models using the R programming language. In these projects, we’re creating computer interfaces to help students translate their ideas…
…using real-world data and a powerful and popular programming language. Mathematical modeling activities Mathematical modeling activities are a common component of computer science (CS) courses. However, not every secondary school…
The 21st century is full of complex and perplexing problems that have proven tough to solve: pandemics, market crashes, global warming, poverty, and crime. If these problems could be explained…
…(2022). Science teachers’ negotiation of professional vision around dilemmas of science teaching in a professional development context. Journal of Science Teacher Education. Wray, K. A., McDonald, S., Lee, H.-S., &…
…can sense directly. More questions (hint—the answers involve probeware): How do I turn a computer into a general-purpose instrument? Use probeware—your computer can become a weather station, data logger, spectrometer,…
…learning program that includes a professional learning community around system modeling and computational thinking. Project research focuses on how students’ modeling practice and computational thinking develops in the context of…