Mashable.com features Concord Consortium projects as examples of technology improving education Blog Post
Mashable.com featured our work heavily in its article today on 8 Ways Technology is Improving Education. Among other areas, the story cited our work with models and simulations, probes and…
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Today’s Wall Street Journal ran a story about using beavers to raise the water table and rehabilitate natural areas. Beavers? How can beavers do this? Photo by Walter Siegmund Beaver…
Importance Today’s students face a future riddled with challenges, including clean water access, increasing biodiversity loss, and climate change. These challenges are particularly thorny because the underlying problems are ill-structured…
…back paleoclimatic conditions that existed thousands of years ago, when many of today’s deserts were wet.” Previously, climate research has focused on Earth’s polar regions and forests. It is important…
…comes to designing ultra low-cost projects.” He loves to hear parents recap, somewhat incredulously, what their kids did in Mr. Hawthorn’s class today: pick a lock or make an electric…
…one of the most exciting things about education today is that students can collaborate easily with technologies like Google Drive. “Coordinating group projects and group research is as easy as…
…and “screamed like crazy when Sherlin’s name was called.” Sherlin graduated from Hoover High School with over a 4.0 GPA and has a full scholarship to UCSD. Today, Phet is…
…use of machines and algorithms to make sense of the petabytes of available data across all scientific disciplines. Indeed, today’s scientists and academics are foregrounding the computational nature of their…
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