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  Perspective: Defining a Deeply Digital Education

  This issue of @Concord marks some significant occurrences at the Concord Consortium.

• Engineering Energy Efficiency with a Green Building Model Kit

  Precollege engineering education is increasingly recognized as an indispensable part of STEM education.

• Monday's Lesson: Asking Big Questions about Our Solar System

  Help your students uncover the link between the math and the science with "Our Solar System," which uses NetLogo models to explore the orbital periods of the six inner planets.

• Beginning with BIG IDEAS: Are Students Ready for Evolution?

  We now have a better idea of what fourth graders are ready to learn—and what's hard for them.

• An Example of Deeply Digital Curricula: Detergents

  The Gulf oil spill can launch students on a deep—and deeply digital—learning adventure.

• Atoms, Molecules, and More with the Molecular Workbench

  The Molecular Workbench (MW) software is one of the most advanced tools for teaching and learning the science of atoms and molecules.

• Probes Give Students a Sixth Sense

  How can we teach about something students cannot see, touch, smell, taste, or hear?

• Innovator Interview: Robert Tinker

  Meet the founder of the Concord Consortium who continues to follow his dreams of revolutionizing education with technology and bringing cutting-edge resources to under-resourced students.

• News at the Concord Consortium

  Mixed-reality labs, Virtual High School's 15th birthday, SeeingMath™ courses, and more.

@Concord

Editor: Chad Dorsey

Managing Editor: Cynthia McIntyre

Design: Jan Streitburger

Web Version: Ethan McElroy

@Concord is published two times a year by The Concord Consortium, a nonprofit educational research and development organization dedicated to educational innovation through creative technologies.

Copyright © 2011 by The Concord Consortium, Inc. All rights reserved. Noncommercial reproduction is encouraged, provided permission is obtained and credit is given. For permission to reproduce any part of this publication, contact cynthia@concord.org.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under several grants (DRL-0918449, DUE-1044263, DRL-0822213, DRL-0918743, DUE-0802532, DRL-0929540, DRL-0929774, DRL-1109687, and IIS-1124821). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or any other funding agency.

We hope you enjoy this publication. The Concord Consortium is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, funded primarily by the National Science Foundation. We also receive donations from corporations and individuals.   We invite you to sponsor our work and help us to continue providing innovative solutions to education.

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