Sencha has the latest on the new iPad’s HTML5 performance, and the verdict looks quite good: The iPad 2’s Mobile Safari browser is the best implementation of WebKit on a mobile device. In our testing we tried to throw everything we could at the browser and it had no issues keeping up with the most […]
President Obama praised the virtues of educational technology during a March 8 visit to TechBoston Academy, one of six schools in the New England area piloting the Concord Consortium’s Geniverse software.
The Concord Consortium’s Paul Horwitz, director of the Evolution Readiness project, is a commentator for Education Week this week.
The Concord Consortium President, Chad Dorsey, will give a featured presentation on the first morning of The National Science Teachers Association conference in San Francisco.
Amy Pallant, Sarah Pryputniewicz, and Hee-Sun Lee describe the High-Adventure Science investigations in the March issue of The Science Teacher. The investigations stimulate students to think critically in order to explore the evidence and discuss the issues of certainty with the models and data. High-Adventure Science has obtained impressive learning results where students showed significant improvement in their understanding of science content and argumentation skills.
Glaciers form when millions of layers of snow compact themselves into ice. Scientists take samples from glaciers and are able to determine what happened thousands of years ago, just by examining the ice rings. (See the image of an ice core, below, from Wikimedia Commons.) 19 cm long section of GISP 2 ice core from […]
If you’re heading to San Francisco for the CyTSE conference on March 8 and 9, look for Concord Consortium staff at the following presentations: Serious Games for STEM Learning, Learning From and With Data, The Molecular Workbench, Innovative Technology in Science Inquiry, and Inquiry in the Digital Age – Enhancing Science Learning using Computer Models.
The Concord Consortium will be attending and presenting at the NSTA conference in March 2011. We look forward to seeing you at our sessions. Add the following sessions to your conference schedule.
A new study from the University of Colorado suggests that 66% of Earth’s permafrost could disappear by the year 2200. And this could be really bad for Earth’s temperature. If the temperature increases, the permafrost melts. Simple enough, right? But it’s slightly more complicated. Trapped in the permafrost is lots and lots of carbon–in the […]
A new study from the University of Washington suggests that Earth’s temperature will keep increasing, even if all greenhouse gas emissions were stopped right now. Why? Because greenhouse gases will last longer in the atmosphere than particulate matter (aerosols) that reflect the sun’s light. So, the solar radiation coming in will increase and the heat […]