Category: Author: Chad Dorsey
This series details the eclipse-chasing exploits of our President and CEO, Chad Dorsey, as he heads down to Tennessee on a quest for the total solar eclipse. See the whole series. Packing for the 2017 Great American Eclipse is amazingly simple, especially considering the laboriousness of prior eclipse-chasing quests. For one, it’s possible to drive there, […]
This series details the eclipse-chasing exploits of our President and CEO, Chad Dorsey, as he heads down to Tennessee on a quest for the total solar eclipse. See the whole series. I. Packing—and recalling. As the suitcases start to fill and the lists of remaining to-dos become gradually shorter, the actual fact seems increasingly hard to […]
Thanks to all the great folks who attended our NSTA 2017 Data Science Education Meetup at BottleRock LA last night. We had a great crowd attend, complete with representatives from Magnitude.io, the education arm of the International Space Station (ISS), CASIS, the folks from MiniPCR, LAUSD, Lodi USD, the CREATE for STEM Institute, Educational Passages and […]
Innovative applications of technology are found virtually everywhere, transforming all kinds of spaces into opportunities for STEM learning that move beyond the walls of classrooms and past schooltime hours. Persistent engagement and interest in meaningful learning activities and practices can spur an enduring pursuit of science. Our Learning Everywhere initiative is exploring, prototyping, and creating […]
A grant from the National Science Foundation will help launch a new interdisciplinary field of study in spoken language technology for education. The one-year “Building Partnerships for Education and Speech Research” project will unite the extensive education research and educational technology backgrounds at the Concord Consortium and SRI International’s Center for Technology in Learning (CTL) […]
Games, modeling, and simulation technologies hold great potential for helping students learn science concepts and engage with the practices of science, and these environments often capture meaningful data about student interactions. At the same time, intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) have undergone important advancements in providing support for individual student learning. Their complex statistical user models […]
We’re pleased today to welcome a new logo for the Molecular Workbench (MW), our complex, beautiful and award-winning software for visualizing molecular dynamics and more. MW was developed over a decade with funding from the National Science Foundation by senior scientist and software developer Charles Xie. It includes a powerful physics engine that calculates the […]
For nearly 18 years, our logo has been a beautiful and complex sunflower, created by Senior Web Developer Noah Paessel. (He was Noah Fields back in 1994 when he worked at the Concord Consortium during his first stint with us, but that’s another blog post!) With the former logo, our founder, Bob Tinker, wanted to […]
I was on the plane returning from Wednesday’s great Cyberlearning Summit when Apple went live with its announcement about iBooks 2 and its foray into the textbook game. This is particularly relevant, as it applies directly to the concerns about digital textbooks and innovation we’ve been addressing in our calls for deeply digital learning. I’m […]
There have been some interesting posts recently demonstrating and discussing control of devices beyond the keyboard. First, every casual gamer’s dream has now come true: you can play Angry Birds using your brain as a controller. The implications for reaching an even higher vegetative state state of flow are simply staggering. Second, one story that […]