November Learning: Expanding the Boundaries of Learning

Carolyn Staudt

About Carolyn Staudt
Curriculum Developer/Professional Development, The Concord Consortium/ KidSolve, Inc., Concord, MA

Carolyn Staudt is a curriculum designer for technology and Internet-based projects, including Models and Data, Mobile Inquiry Computing, SLiC, VHS, GLOBE, KGS (Kids As Global Scientists) and NetAdventure at the Concord Consortium. Carolyn is especially intrigued with allowing students to collect real-time data with portable sensors and probes attached to handheld computers and microcomputer-based lab (MBL) systems. She has designed professional development that includes implementation of technology into the classroom curriculum, teacher and student utilization of existing software, design of tailored activities as well as manipulation of software up to and including, scripting. She has 20 years experience teaching science and math, including physics, chemistry, geoscience and space science. She holds a Masters of Education in Curriculum and Instruction in science from Kent State University. She was a Christa McAuliffe Fellow in 1990 and was the Fairlawn, Ohio, Citizen of the Year in 1991. Carolyn can be reached at carolyn@concord.org.

Main Session Workshops

The Innovative Technology in Science Inquiry: Scale Up (ITSI-SU)

Our project prepares diverse students for careers in information technologies by engaging them in exciting, inquiry-based science projects that use computational models and real-time data acquisition. ITSI-SU has produced dozens of exemplar activities in middle school earth, physical and life sciences and high school physics, chemistry and biology using sensors, as well as open source or research-based models, including Molecular Workbench. This workshop will allow you to try out standards-based activities funded by National Science Foundation (NSF) and by authoring in an online template-based interface.

Universal Design for Learning is Elementary!

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Elementary Science Materials use inquiry as the cornerstone for the development of elementary science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) activities. To empower elementary students to explore scientific concepts, UDL provides a diversified set of hands-on tools, including probes, models, graphics, text to speech, portfolios and digital snapshots. Every participant will be able to use open source software. (Language Arts, Math, etc.) Come and explore with UDL probes!