This post describes an older method for connecting sensors to a web browser. You can learn about a newer, more robust method using Web Bluetooth in this Under the Hood article from our fall 2017 @Concord newsletter. Here at the Concord Consortium we are very interested in making sensors that are easy to use in […]
I was on the plane returning from Wednesday’s great Cyberlearning Summit when Apple went live with its announcement about iBooks 2 and its foray into the textbook game. This is particularly relevant, as it applies directly to the concerns about digital textbooks and innovation we’ve been addressing in our calls for deeply digital learning. I’m […]
Are you an engineering or electronics teacher? If so, we want you—and your students! Students can practice their skills measuring and troubleshooting virtual circuits. Teachers get detailed reports on student performance. Want to light a fire under your students’ electronics learning? Try SPARKS!
Try a series of position-time and velocity-time SmartGraphs, and get “smart” hints and feedback as you learn about motion, acceleration due to gravity, and more.
Chad Dorsey will present the Concord Consortium’s vision of a Deeply Digital Education with a featured presentation on Wednesday, January 18, at 3:45 p.m.
This is a video recorded using an IR camera (FLIR E30bx) about what happens when you put a piece of paper on top of a cup of tap water. The tap water has been put in the room for a long time.The water in the cup appears to be blue under an IR camera be…
Summary: I created a prototype of Learn.Ember.js, an interactive tutorial application for web developers who want to learn about Ember.js. Along the way I was reminded that one of the most useful things about HTML5 is that it helps us to blur the app vs. document distinction in useful ways. Oh, and by the way, […]
What was Earth like 2.8 billion years ago? The first life was emerging on the planet. The Sun was weaker than it is today, but geologic evidence shows that the climate was as warm (or warmer) than it is today. Was Earth colder because of the weak Sun, or warmer, as geologic evidence suggests? How […]
The Concord Consortium has received a $2.5 million grant from Google.org to pave the way for digital curricula that model the “textbook of tomorrow.”
About 33 million years ago, the Earth abruptly went from being warm and wet to having Antarctic ice cover. Only 23 million years after the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, a time of some of the warmest temperatures on Earth, ice covered the surface. What happened? According to a recent study by scientists at Yale and Purdue universities, […]