…We have also learned that equity means different things to different people. One definition that we find especially helpful comes from the National Equity Project, which notes: “Educational equity means…
San Diego, CA April 21-26, 2022 Conference Website The 2022 Annual Meeting is a dual-component conference with sessions offered on-site in San Diego, CA, and other sessions offered on a…
…in conjunction with data-related curriculum and learning experiences Test and provide feedback on prototype technologies for exploring and analyzing data of different types, and identify ways to integrate prototypes into…
…throughout the school year, providing moth-themed reading materials in English Language Arts and building graphs of actual moth data from their collections when students are learning graphing skills in mathematics….
…minds. In the case of Molecular Workbench, the effect is even more profound because the heart of it has actually been written in the universal language of humanity — mathematics….
Click here to watch a video. Microsoft’s Kinect controller offers the first affordable 3D camera that can be used to detect complex three-dimensional motions such as body language, gestures, and…
…I am an enthusiastic proponent of educational games. I created one called “ThinkerTools” so long ago that it ran on a Commodore 64 computer and had to be programmed in…
…variable with a script command. For example, var temp = 300; runScript(“applet_id”, “mw2d:1:set temperature ” + temp) sets the temperature of the system to be 300 K. The get command…
…as planetary engineers in an authentic way. Improving watershed instruction is not as simple as merely implementing compelling scenarios into the learning process. Designing effective instruction must enhance students’ current…
…doing English speakers a favor by choosing an easy-to-pronounce name this time). The board looks pretty interesting, especially the feature that allows it to identify itself to the computer as…