Personal thermal vision could turn millions of students into the cleantech workforce of today Blog Post
So we have signed the Paris Agreement and cheered about it. Now what? More than a year ago, I wrote a proposal to the National Science Foundation to test the…
…class would have been like (or could be like today) if the foundation of your chemical knowledge started here. Technology and Curriculum Developer Dan Damelin goes on to describe how…
This is a video recorded using an IR camera (FLIR E30bx) about what happens when you put a piece of paper on top of a cup of tap water. The…
…its 20th anniversary! Today with the outbreak of a worldwide pandemic, teachers everywhere have been thrust into adopting technology to teach. Modeling actionable strategies for professional development activities described in…
Remote Professional Development: Using a System Modeling Tool for 3D Teaching and Learning Blog Post
…are important in order to understand responses to the pandemic and to solve other pressing problems like water pollution and freshwater scarcity. As an educator at an International Baccalaureate (IB)…
What caused the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)? About 56 million years ago, Earth’s temperature was a lot warmer than it is today–as much as 21°F higher than today (see the…
…2011, a plan of building a massive solar updraft tower in Arizona was announced (for more information, see this CNN report: Can hot air be the free fuel of the…
…simple animations and videos now so typical in e-books. SmartScience is a startup, developing supplemental science education activities. Their idea to link videos of science phenomena with corresponding graphing tools…
…non-academia father. In 1996, I was in graduate school at UC Berkeley when I first met Bob. Marcia Linn brought me to SRI International where Roy Pea was convening different…
…International, and the Concord Consortium. The group will create a dramatically different system that includes new task templates, assessment items, and lesson rubrics that integrate technology and advanced psychometric models…