Well, Maker Faire was certainly all it’s cracked up to be. The energy of the movement is tangible, and the variety of the things people are doing is truly vast. There are definitely themes running through the Maker movement, and many involve technology in a variety of ways. Many of the more surprising examples are […]
Andee Rubin from TERC and I ended up on the same plane on the way to World Maker Faire. As we landed in LaGuardia on the shuttle from Boston, we wandered a bit through the terminal looking for a pit stop. As we did, we happened upon the amazing Marine Air Terminal lobby. 100% hidden […]
Yippee., originally uploaded by Concord Consortium.
Well, it seems our initial return to blogging suffered a slight setback. But we’ve been pretty hard at work over the past year on our new look, new website and many other new developments. And we’re happy to be returning to blogging at long last as well. We’re pleased to have you visiting, and invite […]
This is the third followup of the blog article: “A perfect storm in a cup of salt water?”I woke up last night with a perfect explanation for the mysterious temperature gradient observed in a saturated salt solution. It is the recrystallization of salt …
This is the second followup of an earlier blog article “A perfect storm in a cup of salt water?”I did an experiment to investigate the relationship of the salt concentration with the mysterious temperature gradient in a cup of salt water. The experimen…
This is the first followup of the blog article last week “A perfect storm in a cup of salt water?”.Several people including Bob Tinker, John Loosmann, and Einar Berg suggested that it was the evaporation of water that drives the observed persisting tem…
Andy Zucker’s article, “Transforming Schools with Technology,” was featured in Independent School magazine. The special issue, focused on the theme of Teaching in a 2.0 World, won an award from the Association of Educational Publishers as the best single-theme issue of an education publication.
The new issue of @Concord includes articles on formative assessments in electronics, a new simulation for teaching and learning heat transfer, nanoscience and genetics education, and more.
I was bothered by an experiment I did recently about the temperature distribution in a cup of salt solution. I added a few spoons of table salt and baking soda in two cups of water to create two saturated solutions. Then I left them sit there for a few…