…conducting risk assessments to determine when and where earthquakes may occur, and predicting the potential impacts to surrounding communities. Our new National Science Foundation-funded YouthQuake project aims to bring this…
Social media has been exploding with New Year’s resolutions since early fall. If you’d like to get a head start on your own educational resolutions for the next calendar year,…
…adding AI topics in computer science courses or creating standalone AI courses, this new, early-phase project will integrate AI education into the high school math curriculum. The curriculum design will…
…and visualization. Below you’ll find a sample of recent CODAP help resources and some additional CODAP features you may not have known about. Read on to add some new tools…
…a new technological genre to address multiple, interacting complex systems. By merging agent-based modeling and system diagramming, this new linked hybrid modeling environment permits learners to move between detailed individual…
…Earth-like and have the ability to support life. You can explore the transit method–how the Kepler telescope detects planets–in our space investigation “Is there life outside of Earth?” http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110110151155.htm http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/01/110110-nasa-kepler-10b-new-planet-found-rocky-science-space/…
…continuing that perpetual search for new and improved ways to teach. I taught chemistry and one of the most difficult things I had to deal with was the fact that…
…significant guidance from teachers and peers. This article describes a new open-source systems modeling tool called SageModeler and a curricular approach designed to support students and teachers in engaging in…
…the two. This new technology, patterned after similar approaches used by practicing complexity theorists, will open new possibilities for systems learning, facilitating broad, inclusive perspectives and fostering previously inaccessible connections….
The Concord Consortium announced its new President, Chad Dorsey, at the meeting of its Board of Directors on October 28, 2008. “Chad was the unanimous choice of the Board and…