…they, like Goldilocks, just right! Learn how “Practice SPARKS Perfection in Students.” Special thanks to Al Koon, Professor of Engineering Technology at Tidewater Community College (Virginia Beach, Virginia) and the…
…address our central mission as an organization. “[Microcomputers] offer flexible tools for communication, data acquisition, instrumentation, computation, analysis, and visualization. These tools empower students to do science, to undertake investigations…
…record local ground conditions (e.g., rainfall, temperature, wind speed, wind direction, and moisture content). The data is based on historical records of actual measured weather conditions, collected by Argonne National…
…of tectonic plates and their interactions shape a planet’s surface features, such as mountains, trenches, and volcanoes. Students set up different scenarios to test ideas, examining how boundaries behave and…
…their innovation and creativity. David Oyler, Rocky Mountain Deaf School, Denver, CO “We wondered when you’d figure it out.” Once David Oyler decided to be a teacher, his friends and…
…years teaching kindergarteners, it’s not surprising that she has a fascination with fairies, elves, brownies, and other “weefolk.” She’s collected over a thousand books about them. “It intrigues me that…
…learning. In the process, technology becomes tightly associated with people’s experience of “remote” (i.e., low-quality) learning, a scapegoat for all the issues and grumbles of our larger predicament. The second…
…using cameras, barcodes, eye tracking, RFID, and mobile devices. These cyber-enabled technologies capture data about visitor location, body positions, game play, and exhibit preferences. For example, wearables like tracking devices…
…Student work 20.8% (329) 1.5% (117) .00000** Colleagues’ documents 1.7% (27) 0.4% (34) .00000** Collaborative discussions 2.0% (31) 0.1% (4) .00000** Other platform navigation 14.0% (223) 4.8% (374) .00000** Total…
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