News & Announcements

Cliff gives a presentation at the NCSM 44th Annual conference

Dr. Cliff Konold is giving a presentation on "What students, teachers and administrators need to understand about data" on April 23, 2012 at the NCSM 44th Annual Conference.

Related Paper Set at NARST

Four members of CLSG presented a related paper set at the Annual International Meeting of NARST in Orlando Florida. The title of the set was Discussion-Based Teaching Strategies to Support Mental Modeling: Animated Images, Static Images, and Mental Imaging. Presenters were Grant Williams, Norm Price, Abi Leibovich, and Lynn Stephens and Phil Scott was discussant.

New Book Chapter in International Handbook, March 2012

A. Lynn Stephens and John J. Clement are proud to announce the publication of a chapter in the Second International Handbook of Science Education (Springer), Chapter 13: The role of thought experiments in science and science learning.

Assessing-to-Learn (A2L) website moving to UNC

The Assessing-to-Learn website (A2L.physics.umass.edu) is moving to a new server (clickercentral.net), contact Ian Beat

Data Visualization: Learning to see the invisible

"Data Visualization: Learning to see the invisible" , a presentation by Dr. Cliff Konold at the 2012 Cyberlearning Research Summit is now available to view online

Cyberlearning Research Summit, January 18, 2012

Cyberlearning Research Summit will be held on January 18, 2012 at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C. The summit features a series of short lively TED style talks by 32 leading research-based speakers, among them is Cliff Konold - the Director of Scientific Reasoning Research Institute.

Flash back of Data Games Week at Four Rivers

On December 19-22, 2011, we had an opportunity to run the Data Game week in 8th grade classrooms at Four Rivers Charter School.

Data Game Club at Amherst Middle School

The Data Game project team will be running an after school club called "The Data Game Club" at Amherst Regional Middle School.

Data Game at Four Rivers

The Data Game project team will be heading to the Four Rivers Charter School this December to introduce Data Game activities to their students.

Three Game Programmers Joined the Data Game Project.

The Data Game Project team is now joined force with three new blood game programmers -- Tristan Warneke, Ryan McCann and Dylan Pyle.

TinkerPlots 2.0 Released

TinkerPlots 2.0 was released in April, 2011. TinkerPlots features the Sampler Engine where students can design and run probability simulations.

Teaching Data and Chance in Grades 5-8

Dates: August 15 - 19, 2011

Konold to lecture on statistics education in China

Cliff Konold, director of the Scientific Reasoning Research Institute, has been invited by the mathematics department of East China Normal University in Shanghai to deliver a series of lectures

Ernst von Glasersfeld has died

We were sad to learn of the death yesterday, Nov. 12th, of our colleague Ernst von Glaserfeld. He was 93, and still living in his home in Leverett, Massachusetts.

DR-K12 PI meeting, Nov 8-9, 2009

Cliff attended the DR-K12 PI meeting in Washington D.C.

NCTM regional conference, Nov 3-6, 2009

Cliff to Minneapolis to visit Joan Garfield’s group

Data Games all-staff meeting, Oct 24-25, 2009

Craig and Cliff at KCPT in Emeryville, CA, for the first all-staff meeting of the new Data Games project.

New Zealand Mathematics Teachers Conference, Sept 28 - Oct 2, 2009

Cliff delivers keynote address and leads 3 workshops on TinkerPlots at the 11th New Zealand Mathematics Teachers Conference in Palmersto

Workshop on Data Analysis and Chance, Aug 17-21, 2009

Sandy Madden, assisted by Janinen Manninen, taught the one week workshop, Teaching Data Analysis and Chance in Grades 5-8, at the UMass Amherst campus.

Data Games project begins, Sept, 2009

Data Games, our collaborative proposal with KCP Technologies, has been funded by the National Science Foundation. This work will lead to the development of TinkerPlots 3.0.