…project produced an empirically validated curriculum for introducing evolution in the elementary grades. We used computer-based, manipulable models of interacting organisms and their environments to help fourth grade students learn…
…can shape that future. I’m interested in getting students to do authentic, relevant projects. I use learning analytics and data mining to help me understand student learning. Q. How did…
…help guide the ocean research. As part of the National Science Foundation-funded Transforming Remotely Conducted Research through Ethnography, Education and Rapidly Evolving Technologies (TREET) project, this cruise was challenged to…
…promote infrared imaging as a novel way to teach thermal energy and heat transfer we will motivate thousands of students to help make this crowdsourcing project a success. More Conferences…
…place in it. Help your students uncover the link between the math and the science with “Our Solar System,” which uses NetLogo models to explore the orbital periods of the…
GRASPing Invisible Concepts, Can a Robot Help Students Write Better Scientific Arguments?, Supporting Secondary Students in Building External Models to Explain Phenomena, and more in Spring @Concord…
…curricula should involve hands-on experience. The computer can help there, too, using probes and sensors that turn computers into sophisticated laboratory instruments. These can be intelligent and inexpensive, as “Monday’s…
…this discussion. Having been selected as the new president to help build upon the amazing foundation Bob Tinker and staff have created is both humbling and exciting. Having this opportunity…
…and student-to-student interactions, including teachers’ questioning strategies that elicit student thinking and help make that thinking explicit. Additional video commentaries from math specialists highlight areas of student misconceptions and insights….
…making the study of atoms and molecules central to all subjects, the SAM activities provide a unifying thread across the curriculum. Such a fundamental understanding will help students succeed in…