San Francisco, CA According to an IBM study all 1,407,724,920 people who use the internet will double the amount of digital information in the world every 11 hours by 2010. Should we keep it all? And if the answer is yes, how will that work exactly? Should it be accessible or will it land in […]

On April 23, 2008 Cornell University’s 2005-2008 Networks Theme Project capped the three-year teaching and research initiative with a lecture by team members including David Easley (Economics), Jon Kleinberg (Computer Science), Kathleen O’Connor (JGSM), Michael Macy (Sociology), and Dan Huttenlocher (Computer Science & JGSM) entitled “Getting Connected: Social Science in the Age of Networks.”
David Easley […]

Friday at NSTA’s national conference in Boston, MA included two informative literacy sessions.
Scaffolding Inquiry: Research on Writing in Science
Dr. Rick Vanosdall, Director of the Center of Excellence for Learning Sciences at Tennessee State UniverVsity presented an overview of research results from his work with Dr. Mike Klentschy, the Superintendant of Schools of the En Centro School […]

Highlights from Thursday, March 27 at the National Science Teachers’ Association national conference in Boston, MA included a presentation on IPY science projects and the Polar Discovery expedition series.
IPY Science
Louise Huffman, Coordinator of Education and Outreach for the ANDRILL project, presented an informative session, IPY Cool Science: Hot Topics. An overview of the three previous […]

Dr. Judy Willis is a neuroscientist who also happens to be a middle school algebra teacher. After years in the lab, Dr. Willis decided to apply her knowledge on brain research to the classroom. At the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Annual Conference in New Orleans, Dr. Willis was a […]

The One Laptop Per Child logo is as bright, hopeful and open as the project itself. OLPC is laying the groundwork for a world where every child will have the opportunity to take advantage of cyber learning opportunities.
AAAS’s tag line, “Advancing science, serving society,” was evident in many presentations at their Annual Meeting in […]

A Stylaster Elegans (Elegant Lace Coral by Teresa Zubi (Sept. 2005).
Anyone who has been fortunate enough to see Lace corals up close and underwater might remember their delicate form and color. Researchers from the Universidade de Sao Paulo, Stanford University, and the Scottish Association for Marine Science have discovered unexpected connections between shallow-water coral and […]

The intersection of science and the human condition as a “global enterprise” was the subject of AAAS President Dr. David Baltimore’s opening address to attendees at the Annual Meeting Opening Ceremony on Feb. 14, 2008 in Boston. Baltimore is a leading biologist and a California Institute of Technology Professor of Biology who was co-recipient of […]

Cutting edge issues related to climate change, health, energy, the environment, development, and education are the focus of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) that begins under sunny skies today in Boston Read an overview here. Audio highlights of the meeting will be available for sale here.
The Hynes Convention Center located in […]

It’s not too late to register for the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), set to begin tomorrow, February 14-19, in Boston. Stay tuned to the NSDL Road Reports blog for meeting highlights.
NSDL will be featured in two free conference sessions on Sunday Feb. 17 in Room 209 of […]