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	<title>The Concord Consortium Blog on STEM Learning and EdTech &#8211; Concord Consortium</title>
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		<title>Pele’s Playground: Combining block programming and volcanology</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Pallant]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 16:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Earth Science Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LavaCoder]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[At the end of January I had the opportunity to visit the Big Island of Hawaiʻi to observe the implementation of a middle school Earth science curriculum module called “Pele’s Playground.” The module focuses on using block-based programming of a computer simulation to learn about factors affecting where lava flows and volcanic smog, or “vog,” [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Pumpkins, projectiles, and data: Explore PhET sims in CODAP</title>
		<link>https://concord.org/blog/pumpkins-projectiles-and-data-explore-phet-sims-in-codap/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cynthia McIntyre]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 14:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Data Science Education]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Concord Consortium is thrilled to partner with PhET in their new data fluency initiative. PhET’s free research-based simulations engage students in a game-like environment—and importantly, the sims generate data. While most of PhET’s traditional physics simulations are idealized models without noise or measurement error, new sims include real-world variability. This means the data they [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Usability studies on DAVAI: Making data inquiry accessible</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Damelin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Data By Voice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Science Education]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[To ensure that blind and low-vision (BLV) learners can engage meaningfully in data science education, we’re designing an AI-supported natural language plugin for CODAP called DAVAI (Data Analysis through Voice and Artificial Intelligence). Students use voice or typed input to ask questions about datasets in CODAP, then get dynamically generated descriptions and optional sonification—hearing the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Shared representations for accessible and AI-supported inquiry</title>
		<link>https://concord.org/blog/shared-representations-for-accessible-and-ai-supported-inquiry/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Leslie Bondaryk]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As we enhance the accessibility of our inquiry-based STEM simulations and integrate generative AI into our learning platforms, we’re constantly evaluating and leveraging emerging technologies to improve teaching and learning. Recent work has led to an exciting convergence and potentially transformative insight surrounding these two goals. The representations needed for a large language model (LLM) [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Inclusive inquiry: Simulation accessibility and VPATs</title>
		<link>https://concord.org/blog/inclusive-inquiry-simulation-accessibility-and-vpats/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Leslie Bondaryk]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[accessibility]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Concord Consortium has developed hundreds of STEM simulations to engage students in the NGSS science and engineering practices—from asking questions and defining problems to developing and using models, planning and carrying out investigations, and analyzing and interpreting data. These simulations—covering everything from genetics to plate tectonics, diffusion, protein folding, the underpinnings of AI, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Giants in the classroom: Developing students’ STEM identities</title>
		<link>https://concord.org/blog/giants-in-the-classroom-developing-students-stem-identities/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cynthia McIntyre]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[YouthQuake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[professional development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[STEM identity]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[As part of our YouthQuake project, funded by the National Science Foundation, we developed a five-activity online module that guides students through a series of investigations of earthquake risks and hazards. In addition to investigating the science of earthquakes and how to develop block coding to model land movement, students learn about related careers as [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Two Tinker Fellows will develop innovations in AI</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cynthia McIntyre]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Science Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CODAP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data By Voice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data-science-education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISLAND]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LEADS]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Robert F. Tinker Fellows Program aims to promote innovation, creativity, and cross-disciplinary conversations. We’re thrilled to announce that two 2026 Tinker Fellows will focus on innovations in artificial intelligence (AI) to help transform teaching and learning. Amelia McNamara will explore how custom AI models can support teachers’ and students’ critical thinking and data science [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Bootstrap’s free data science course using CODAP</title>
		<link>https://concord.org/blog/bootstraps-free-data-science-course-using-codap/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cynthia McIntyre]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bootstrap]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Want to introduce data science with CODAP to your middle and high school students? Through a partnership with Bootstrap, you can get started with a free web-based set of materials. Developed by the Bootstrap team, the Data Literacy curriculum is a comprehensive, flexible data literacy course designed for students in grades 7-9 that uses CODAP [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Shoveling snow and digging deeper into geospatial data</title>
		<link>https://concord.org/blog/shoveling-snow-and-digging-deeper-into-geospatial-data/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Lore]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Data Science Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mapping Time]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This week, a major snowstorm stretching from Texas to Maine is forecasted to affect millions of people. Many people throughout the U.S. now face the same questions. Do I have time to run to the store for more groceries before the heaviest snow is going to fall? Is school going to be delayed or canceled? [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Reflections on my high school math teacher on Giving Tuesday</title>
		<link>https://concord.org/blog/reflections-on-my-high-school-math-teacher-on-giving-tuesday/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Danielle Kehoe]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 13:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Future of Learning Fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Giving Tuesday]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Do you have a teacher you are thankful for? I know I do. The one who comes to mind today is my 10th grade math teacher, Mr. Scheib. I had always enjoyed math and done well in it—until the third quarter of sophomore year. My mother took a second shift to help make ends meet. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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