New Support for Learning Everywhere Initiative The Concord Consortium is pleased to announce the second phase of a revolutionary $2 million initiative using technology to bridge informal and formal STEM…
…The race is on… Into 2015, FLIR announced a new version of FLIR ONE that supports both Android and iOS and will probably be even more aggressively priced. Figure 2…
…atoms and molecules constitutes a substantial part of the science content standards2 and even more so in the new frameworks,3 from the structure of atoms to the molecular basis of…
On September 12, 2011, a team of scientists announced that the HARPS telescope has identified more than 50 new planets; this is the largest number of planets ever announced at…
A new study has been published disproving the previous explanation for the end of the Marinoan ice age, also known as “Snowball Earth.” That ice age ended abruptly about 600…
At the Concord Consortium, we’re always experimenting with new ideas, using new technologies to support classroom inquiry in STEM, and researching the effects on learning. We’re a group of thinkers…
…entering. And what better way to learn the basics of this new, essential field than through games? A data science game generates data—lots of data—as you play. And the only…
…Pallant, A. (2016). Increasing Shore-based Participation of Scientists & Students in Telepresence-enabled Nautilus Expeditions. Abstract #91482, Ocean Sciences meeting, New Orleans, LA. Lee, H. -S., Pallant, A., Tinker, R., &…
…open-ended exploration of their own design. Physics activities are already available. New activities are being designed for biology and chemistry. Research InquirySpace has demonstrated that typical students can learn to…
Sitting at home in Birmingham, England, in 2009, Chris Hart made plans to move her family and her life to Boston. She had never even been to New England before,…