…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….
…is just a thin line. With the help of a NetLogo model, we can test Newton’s ideas. Go to: concord.org/activities/launching-satellite To run Newton’s Cannon (see Figure 1), click the Turn…
…dimensions called Energy2D. The software—the result of technology transfer from computational fluid dynamics research to education—is based on fast algorithms for solving the Heat Equation and the Navier-Stokes Equation. Energy2D…
…guys in military and secret services where money is not a problem. You can now buy “lower”-grade IR cameras with $1,500-$2,500, which are pretty cool (thank you for lowering down…
…remarked, using the iPad seems very much “like holding the Internet in your hands.” But as futuristic as it feels, the iPad owes a great deal to ideas of the…
…realistic tasks of increasing complexity. The software runs in a browser and does not require special software. Figure 2. Student report. In Step 1, the student reported a tolerance value…
…according to sapphire.net, an applet is allowed to read files from only the same code base where the Java executable is located (in this case, http://mw2.concord.org/public/lib/mwapplet.jar). To avoid this problem,…
…simulation must run fast enough to be interactive so that students can play with it. After a few weeks of work, I came up with a primitive version of Energy2D….
…by the Department of Energy to integrate SketchUp with their EnergyPlus software. EnergyPlus is a program written in Fortran that was created for architects to evaluate thermal performance of buildings…
The Molecular Workbench (MW) software offers salient interactive simulations of electrons, atoms, and molecules that explain many phenomena from the microscopic level. What exactly is in a simulation that makes…