Mashable.com features Concord Consortium projects as examples of technology improving education Blog Post
Mashable.com featured our work heavily in its article today on 8 Ways Technology is Improving Education. Among other areas, the story cited our work with models and simulations, probes and…
…comes to designing ultra low-cost projects.” He loves to hear parents recap, somewhat incredulously, what their kids did in Mr. Hawthorn’s class today: pick a lock or make an electric…
…the arm today by a small grant awarded by the National Science Foundation. This TUES Type-1 grant will support a collaboration with Bowling Green State University and Dakota County Technical…
…it is the learning analytics that concludes the research. Today we are seeing a lot of learner data, but we probably have no idea what they actually mean. We can…
…with surprising results. Collaboration is generally recognized as a core competency of today’s knowledge economy and has assumed a central role in recent theoretical and technological developments in education research….
…shows that sea-surface temperatures during the Pliocene Warm Period were warmer than sea-surface temperatures today. By studying the causes of past warming, and trying to figure out how the temperature…
…one of the most exciting things about education today is that students can collaborate easily with technologies like Google Drive. “Coordinating group projects and group research is as easy as…
…Earth that we have today with predetermined outcomes that would inhibit student exploration. View a cross-section of a plate boundary in Tectonic Explorer*. Our goal is to give students the…
…work (see Ohm’s Law in Wikipedia). Ironically, today’s students seem to be more familiar with Ohm’s Law than Fourier’s Law. So the circuit analogy is used in textbooks to help…
Energy3D is a free, open-source tool we are developing from scratch to empower students to design, make, and test energy-efficient model houses. Today we had some students design and make…