…Professional learning community The Concord Consortium has pioneered online teaching and learning. In 1996, we created the Virtual High School (VHS) and its professional development courses to help teachers design…
…probe, a wirelessly connected laptop computer, and software that embeds probes and models into online activities. Figure 1. LOOPS technology offers multiple views for the teacher. Modeling a scientific community…
…Professor of Language Technologies and Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University, Interim Director of the Language Technologies Institute, and Co-Principal Investigator of the StoryQ project What is the goal of…
…to be awed. The vastness of the solution space of a complex design problem is far beyond what language can describe. To comprehend its magnitude, consider these two facts: 1)…
Understanding responses to the current COVID-19 pandemic and solving other pressing global and local problems requires the ability to develop and use models and apply both system thinking and computational…
…the correct sequence of steps, a computer program can execute the solution. Students who take a computer science class learn computational thinking (CT) skills. But CT is too important to…
…development projects to products that teachers can use effectively. The distribution problem One of the principal problems complicating the question of scaling educational technology innovations is the basic question of…
…what happens in every student’s learning process and explain the pre/post-test differences. The technology for recording and analyzing the process data is the key. This illustration shows how a computer-aided…
…shared. These beginning steps towards creating a resource of community-generated materials prove that it is feasible. We could yet see a completely new kind of learning resource available to teachers….
…with data in community and citizen science In youth-focused community and citizen science, youth produce data that scientists, resource managers, and community members use. This “nested” data situates learners’ scientific…