…even a single course would be time consuming and expensive. And after working several years and spending tens of millions of dollars, a team might produce a great design, but…
…require science and quantitative analysis, as already evidenced by our fateful paralysis over global warming, stem cell research, teaching of evolution, and nuclear energy. Naturally, there is no magic bullet,…
Global temperatures in the year 2010 are on course to be the highest ever in 130-year record. This is the consensus of recent three different analyses by NASA, National Oceanic…
…curricula in districts where reading dominates the time allocated for instruction of all kinds. The stories provide an additional cognitive channel for students to learn the science information. Since standardized…
…it possible for students to construct a physical scale model that looks just like its computer counterpart. Figure 3: Testing the scale model under a table light and observing its thermal…
…The agent scans every five minutes for set phrases connected with tropes about why climate change isn’t caused by man. Then it automatically chats from a honed database to refute…
…IDEO describe how he created the first laptop. Great thinking went into all the design elements of the hardware, including a scoop that automatically ejected a pencil or any other…
…carry on parallel and complementary research.1 Moving forward, our goal is to enhance student inquiry skills as well as content knowledge. We will investigate whether further enhancements to the technology…
…the seedlings mature into adult plants. In parallel, on the computer they planted virtual seeds from several varieties of “Mystery Plants,” and discovered that variation in the plants allowed some…
Gartner has published their annual Hype Cycle, a roundup of which technologies are where on the inevitable expect-too-much-too-early curve of technology hype. Gartner has characterized the typical curve along which…