More and Better Probes
The idea of attaching probes to computers burst upon the educational horizon in 1975 when Robert Tinker developed a temperature grapher using the KIM-1 microcomputer. Today, probeware spans heart monitors to carbon dioxide detectors to seismometers to photometers. The list is endless. Since there are so many options and vendors for micro-computer based lab (MBL) probeware and curriculum, the Concord Consortium will be providing a unifying MBL Web location to link all the participants in the field. We hope, with the help of educators and vendors, to make this site a clearinghouse for information, ideas, and reviews of everything related to probeware.
http://www.concord.org/mbl/links.html

Sustainable Future
The recently coined term "sustainable development" encompasses a group of issues that everyone must understand if we are to create the environmental, economic and social cooperation society needs in the 21st century and beyond. Understanding what sustainability means requires thinking about the complex issues of resource use, allocation, and renewal as well as the responsibility society has to make these resources available to future generations. The Concord Consortium will provide educational, technical, and content expertise to a new sustainable development education project developed and piloted in nine Georgia schools. The Cobb County Public Schools in Georgia will manage the project on behalf of a national consortium of schools, educational innovators, and corporations. Lockheed Martin, BellSouth, AT&T, IBM, the Cobb Chamber of Commerce, and other corporations will contribute substantial human, technical, and financial resources. The K-12 materials developed in the project will be disseminated throughout eight Southern districts through workshops and netcourses, and will be placed on the Web.
sustain@concord.org

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