…textbook development cycle, a large, skilled team would be needed: content experts who were classroom savvy, software wizards, assessment statisticians, curriculum designers, and university researchers. Developing comprehensive electronic materials for…
…non-professional scientists is not new. For hundreds of years, naturalists, collectors, diarists, and record keepers of all manner, including those who lacked formal scientific training and credentials, have shaped our…
…technology, science education, math education, cognitive science, and so on and I had a lot of help figuring out what the journal should be. Jim Greeno, Allan Collins, and Bob…
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…be relegated to computer science class, especially because computer science courses are not offered in all schools, says Wiedemann. Math class, however, is ubiquitous. High school students have to take…
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…Games project (play.ccssgames.com), directed by Bill Finzer, creator of Fathom. Play the “Rock, Paper, Scissors” game to rescue Madeline the dog from the evil Dr. Markov. Once you learn to…
…teaching in 1993, I saw the enormous potential for computers to improve education, mostly for students, but also for teachers and administrators. Access to computers was pretty limited then, but…
…Knowledge (LAK ‘15) (pp.166-170). Poughkeepsie, NY: Society for Learning Analytics Research. Lee, H.-S., Gweon, G.-H., Dorsey, C, Tinker, R., Finzer, W., Damelin, D., Kimball, N., Pallant, A., & Lord, T….
…to complex problems. To model these phenomena successfully, we also need computational thinking—the ability to apply logical and algorithmic thinking. By identifying patterns in phenomena, computational thinking helps us calculate…