Concord.org - Research Themes

Research Themes

Today we are concentrating our efforts on several areas in which innovations will have great impact on learning.

Modeling Research — Enabling students to visualize the unobservable
Online Learning — Democratizing education with anytime, anywhere learning
Probeware — Developing new tools for data collection and analysis
Handhelds — Moving closer to the promise of ubiquitous computing
Sustainable Development Education — Confronting global issues with decision-making tools

Making Thinking Visible - Student Work
The Making Thinking Visible Project was designed to allow students an opportunity to explore differences between East and West Coast geology through model building and collaborative discourse as a way to integrate, apply, and extend what they learned from Earth Science Class to understand more deeply why there are differences on the East and West coasts with respect to Geology.