President Obama praised the virtues of educational technology during a March 8 visit to TechBoston Academy, one of six schools in the New England area piloting the Concord Consortium’s Geniverse…
…new questions. Can we generate similar enthusiasm among students, encouraging them to think critically about the data and evidence and arrive at answers even when 100% certainty isn’t possible? If…
Our East and West Coast offices got together for two days of team building and brainstorming. We demoed our newest technologies, dreamed up new projects, and solved a (fake) murder…
Concord Consortium Research Results Shed Light on Evolution Learning and Scientific Argumentation Blog Post
…project presented their findings, validating new measures of students’ uncertainty and conditions of rebuttal, two useful but frequently neglected elements characterizing scientific arguments. This research, currently being prepared for submission…
…change. Free e-book, too! 2:00 PM, GWCC, C206 “Liven Up Your Labs with Free 3-D Learning Tools and Resources” Learn science by doing science. Adapt your labs using new tools….
…Models for Explorations of Dynamic Earth) project. Funded by the National Science Foundation, the new project aims to design dynamic, interactive, computer-based models and curricula to help students understand how…
…behind them, and manipulate the resulting proteins as the proteins do the work of producing traits. The first set of protein-based challenges using this new interface revolves around scale color…
…for your selected path. Our computational models and probe-based activities bring important learning within new reach. Students using such technology-based activities also gain wide experience with crosscutting concepts—from scales in…
The Community College Journal of Research and Practice has published a new article by Paul Horwitz, Alina von Davier, John Chamberlain, Al Koon, Jessica Andrews, and Cynthia McIntyre in January…
…science: more data leads to better models, leading to more accurate predictions of the future. Learn about how scientists use new data to make better models of Earth’s future climate…