…the workshop with customized posters for use at conference presentations, a box full of useful resources, and lots of new ideas. One teacher noted “how diverse our experiences are but…
Sharks, seals, and tuna, oh my! Exploring data in PBL classrooms with CODAP and Ocean Tracks Blog Post
…August 2018 issue while exploring data in CODAP. The new issue of this NSTA publication is focused on critical thinking and project-based learning (PBL). “Data-driven inquiry in the PBL classroom”…
…lab report. These new features, along with what I have built in the past few weeks, mark the milestone of Version 0.0.2 of SmartIR (i.e., only 2% of the work…
Sharing Research Results and Special Poster Session to Commemorate Robert Tinker at AERA 2018 Blog Post
Several researchers and senior scientists from the Concord Consortium traveled to New York City in April for the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). A record 17,148…
In the past two days the New York Times has provided readers with six fascinating articles and discussions about online learning. One set is called Room for Debate: Can Young…
…and are ideal for Subtitle Translations. Whereas translation is the process of simply exchanging the original words for those of the new language, localization modifies the initial language by adapting…
Nearly every day, newspapers report on new scientific breakthroughs. Scientists provide measures of their uncertainty in the results, expressed as a p-value. The p-value is a statistical measure of the…
…to a great start. On my first day as a new teacher, in 2007, a moderate earthquake shook our community. My students came back the second day filled with questions,”…
Sencha has the latest on the new iPad’s HTML5 performance, and the verdict looks quite good: The iPad 2’s Mobile Safari browser is the best implementation of WebKit on a…
…What other questions arise from this preliminary messing about with the data? Each time students create a new visualization of the data, they learn something about the dataset—even as they…