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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.
News from CC
- The Spring 2009 @Concord Newsletter is here!
The new issue of @Concord includes articles about secondary students doing genetics research, college students using Molecular Workbench, a new project aimed at teaching evolution to fourth graders, and much 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
The Concord Consortium is working in partnership with Parkland College and three ATE National Centers (BIO-LINK, MATEC, and OP-TEC) on the newly funded Electron Technologies project. The goal of this project is to provide model-based content to enhance courses that require student understanding of electron behavior. The project is developing new materials that use highly interactive computational models, and embed these models in learning activities that are appropriate for courses teaching such things as electronics, materials science, photonics and chemistry.
To learn more, please visit the Electron Technologies Web site.
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