The Fall 2011 @Concord is now available for download.
In 1981, Bob Tinker designed the first microcomputer-based real-time temperature data grapher for education. And an industry was born. We continue to research and develop probeware and its educational applications.
Carolyn Staudt presents Concord Consortium’s science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) projects at the 2011 Massachusetts STEM Summit, “Advancing the STEM Agenda Locally & Nationally,” on October 18 at the Boston Marriott in Newton.
Over the last week and a half, we – like everyone in the tech community – have been thinking a lot about Steve Jobs and his amazing legacy. Since we didn’t post about it on the date we first heard the news, it seems that the date of the memorial service is a fitting date […]
Concord Consortium President Chad Dorsey and Board Member Lev Sviridov will participate in the 2011 Excellence in Action National Summit on Education Reform at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco on October 13-14.
Concord Consortium founder Bob Tinker will be a featured speaker at the California STEM Summit “Sparking Innovation in STEM,” held at UC Davis on October 10 and 11. Bob will describe a deeply digital future using Concord Consortium activities and resources.
NASA technology is being used to find fossil aquifers underneath Earth’s driest deserts. This technology was developed to explore underneath the surface of Mars, to help determine if there might be water on the red planet. Water is a sign that life might be possible. Why are they using this technology on Earth? We know […]
As plants grow, they transpire, releasing water into the atmosphere. During the summer in a city, trees help to cool the immediate surroundings through transpiration. New research from Carnegie’s Global Ecology department, published last month in Environmental Research Letters, concludes that transpiration has a global effect as well. How does this happen? Water vapor is […]
“Video games can unleash a learning revolution,” reports the Boston Globe. We agree. That’s why since 1994 we’ve been producing interactive digital activities—like our SPORE award-winning Molecular Workbench—in science and math for grades 4 and up. We’re tapping into the spirit of games to engage learners. And we’re excited to announce that we’ve just been awarded a new grant from the National Science Foundation. GeniGames will add game-based design elements to our Geniverse software. Students can learn about genetics by solving games of dragons and drakes.
Pumice, a type of volcanic rock, is so porous that it floats on water. Now researchers from Oxford University and the University of Western Australia are suggesting that life on Earth could have formed on floating rafts of pumice. The researchers argue that pumice has a unique set of properties which would have made it […]