Tuesday, June 27. 2006CC is at ICLS
Several Concord Consortium staff members including Janice Gobert, Paul Horwitz and Barbara Buckley, are attending the 7th annual International Conference of the Learning Sciences this week in Bloomington, Indiana. They are running a full day workshop on Monday entitled "Authoring, Assessment & Open Source: Implications for Research and Classroom Application." This workshop will present several complementary educational technologies that support science learning through curriculum authoring and delivery, scaffolded student activities, and the logging and reporting of student interactions for purposes of research and assessment. Participants will have hands-on experience with authoring environments that allow the design of highly interactive curriculum, fine-grained data logs and reports, and scalable portal functionality. These technologies take advantage of open source models to support dynamic communities of exchange. Monday, June 12. 2006Museums and Technology
Dr. William Barnett of the Chicago Field Museum gave a brown bag lunch at CC on the topic of Museums and Technology. Summary Museums have a great public value that is intrinsic to our society. Museums, however, are traditional organizations, many dating back intellectually to the age of discovery. Natural history museums are still perceived by the American populace as 'Dead Zoos' of collections. The rapid development of online content, portable technologies, and changing modes of public information consumption and creation have been a challenge for our traditional delivery of informal education and entertainment. Museums can best respond by understanding the impact on these trends for knowledge providers, rethinking their role in creating public value, and by strategic partnerships with other organizations. Continue reading "Museums and Technology" Friday, June 9. 2006Create your own simple probeware activities
The TEEMSS2 project has released the first prototype release of a web application which allows anyone to create and deploy simple probeware activities that work with six different probeware vendor-interface combinations. Try it the activity microportal here: Here's a link to a very simple temperature probe activity: Simplest possible temperature activity If you want to change the probeware vendor-interface go to this page and select your probeware vendor-interface in the pull-down menu on the right and then click Save. Then Run any of the activities on the microportal again. Select probeware vendor-interface If you want to change the activity instead open this page on the microportal, make your changes, click Save and then click Run. Edit: Simplest possible temperature activity The web application supports authoring of simple probeware applications. After authoring the activity is made available as a Java webstart application built on the SensorPortfolio technology developed in the TEEMSS2 project. Here is a list of the vendors-interface combinations that you can select. Fourier Ecolog The Fourier EcoLog has several built-in sensors, can read external Fourier sensors, and communicates via usb. Data Harvest Easysense Q The Data Harvest EasySense Q works with all the Data Harvest sensors and communicates via usb. Pasco Science Workshop 500 The Pasco Science Workshop 500 has four input ports for connecting older Pasco sensors and communicates to your computer via a serial port. Pasco Airlink SI The Pasco AirLink Si uses PASPORT sensors and communicates to your computer via Bluetooth wireless networking. Texas Instruments CBL2 The Texas Instruments CBL2 works with TI sensors and communicates via usb. Vernier Go!IO Vernier's usb Go!Link interface works with many Vernier sensors. The Go! Temp and Go!Motion sensors have a Go!Link interfaces integrated into the sensor. Simulated Data Use the Simulated Data interface when you have no probeware to attach to your computer but you still want to test your activity. Where Are the Educational Innovations?
Robert Tinker, CC's president, writes about the lack of Educational Innovations in our Spring 2006 @Concord newsletter:
He compares the way that Education funding is done to other large-scale projects like those of NASA, concluding:
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