…a time when clock radios were quite a novel invention. The ability to wake to the radio instead of some raucous bell was an entirely new concept. And to a…
…technologies. One of the major take-aways from the talk (though there were many) was her profile of the new learner that they’re seeing emerge. They call this student the “free-agent…
…merged back into the code base. As development proceeded, new English strings were added and existing strings were changed, which meant additional email exchanges. It was a time-consuming and error-prone…
…each level of these cases, which trace the emergence of new phenotypes from their origination in a DNA mutation to the production of different proteins to the effects on cells…
…with mechanical movements using various papers and crafting methods. Inspired by this notion of a computationally enabled medium, we are exploring a new learning medium that melds craft and computation….
…be logged into the STEM Resource Finder homepage. Add a new class Once you are logged in, click the HOME button in the upper right—that’s your personal homepage, where you…
Importance Instead of cookbook experiments with known outcomes, science education should be more authentic and more like contemporary science. A new generation of inexpensive technology can bring this goal closer…
…Jessica took the initiative to design her own SmartGraphs activity, learn to use the authoring system, and create the new web-based activity (which runs directly in a browser, without any…
…puts too much emphasis on facts and not on active learning. I lean towards the active learning camp, which is a more powerful way to incorporate new knowledge, though it…
…certain behavior or outcome. We are developing a new web-based systems modeling tool—SageModeler— based on the MySystem concept mapping tool developed at the Concord Consortium, and on Model-It, a systems…