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The Concord Consortium is a nonprofit educational research and development organization based in Concord, Massachusetts. We create interactive materials that exploit the power of information technologies. Our primary goal in all our work is digital equity — improving learning opportunities for all students.
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Congratulations to Robert Ong of Nedlands, Australia! He is winner of a new iPod touch. Over 200 of you responded to our website survey. Your input will help us update our website to improve the ways you learn about and use our software and activities. Keep watch for our redesigned site arriving later this year! - The Fall @Concord is here!
The new issue of @Concord includes five great lessons about energy, evolution, the greenhouse effect and more. Become a member to receive the print edition of our biannual newsletter. - Article by Andy Zucker featured in Science Magazine
Laptop programs for schools are increasingly popular all over the world. For example, Pennsylvania has purchased more than 140,000 laptops for high school classrooms and Venezuela has ordered more than 1 million computers for schoolchildren. But what does research say about the impacts of school laptop programs? The Concord Consortium's Andy Zucker together with an EDC colleague recently wrote an invited article on this topic for Science magazine. - CC Announces New President
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 has its enthusiastic support," said Board Chairperson, Pendred Noyce. "We look forward to vigorous, thoughtful leadership from Chad."
Chad will move from the Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance, where he provided teacher professional development and developed educational technology projects. He is currently working on a joint program between CC and MMSA to introduce high school biology students to cutting-edge genomic data analysis by giving them access to tools and data used by leading genetic scientists.
Bob Tinker, the founder of the Concord Consortium, is retiring as President at the end of the year, but will continue to be involved in development and project management over the next two years.
Spotlight
LOOPS will collect data on student progress — what activity each student is working on or has completed, plus student responses to questions and scores on various explicit assessments. The major innovation of LOOPS will be data on student inquiry skills obtained by monitoring how students learn from their explorations of models and probes. LOOPS will extract in real time a few key indicators of inquiry skills and present them in a format that teachers can use.
To learn more, please visit the LOOPS Project Web site.
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