…effect here was also surprising but much more welcomed news. We then looked to teacher feedback to corroborate these findings. When asked about their students’ curiosity about rocks during the…
Orrin Murray is a principal researcher at American Institutes for Research and external evaluator for our TecRocks project. We all come into the world primed to wonder. Curiosity is the…
…careers. Students Write Their Own Data Stories with Story Builder With pie charts and all manner of graphs, news stories come to us filled with data. As twenty-first century citizens,…
…making connections across the curriculum. As part of our Contextualizing Data Education via Project-Based Learning (DataPBL for short) project, she is integrating datasets into a module on the Japanese American…
Our web-based Common Online Data Analysis Platform (CODAP) is a robust environment where students use a simple drag-and-drop interface to organize, transform, and create visualizations of data. CODAP is also…
…be identifying minerals? To begin, we needed to show how rock-forming processes and tectonic processes are interconnected. We developed a unique online computational model and simulation for students to investigate…
…there are reasons to be optimistic. As part of his thesis, Roose lays out a set of rules “for humans in the age of automation.” Indeed, these rules will be…
…from cruise control systems in cars to thermostats in buildings, and in automation anomalies such as bot-driven online pricing wars. By introducing the intent of other individuals and groups as…
…tools—testing, vaccines, medications—that science offers today. The Case of the COVID Crisis presents an accurate portrait of efforts to conquer smallpox, the 1918 flu, measles, Nipah, Ebola, and COVID. Equal…
Teachers have used our interactive online activities for many years with great success. However, the same request has come up time and time again: “Is there any way that students…