…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…
…but scientists conducted observations, analyzed data and made research decisions from shore? Thanks to a new project, scientists can test this scenario, and students can also conduct remote research. The…
…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…
…by some of those projects to support educational research and assessment based on analyzing and visualizing process data collected by sophisticated learning software. “New technologies thus bring the potential of…
…for students to work with data, curriculum developers need easy access to data analysis tools and an environment that can be embedded in their materials. Q. What is the new…
…engineering and math. For 20 years, the Concord Consortium has been developing deeply digital tools and learning activities that capture the power of curiosity and create revolutionary new approaches to…
…the world up close. A new, inexpensive digital microscope allows magnification between 30x and 130x — enough to see everything from a bug’s eye to a pollen grain or a…