Tumblehome Books

12/29/2023

Congratulations to Author Janet Wylie. Her book Space Home 7 (ages 7-12) has been selected for the The Children's Book Council Winter 2023 Showcase. More info: https://www.cbcbooks.org/cbc_book/space-home-7/

11/04/2023

Tumblehome author, Anna Du has a few videos about her microplastic project on the Boston Museum of Science YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com//search?query=anna%20du
Details soon about Anna being invited to speak at the MA State House Library early next year!

07/07/2023

This coming Wed, 7/12 @ 8:00pm, Tumblehome Author Barnas Monteith will be giving a FREE presentation about the biochemistry behind the Jurassic Park films prior to the free outdoor 35mm screening on the Rose Kennedy Greenway of “The Lost World: Jurassic Park” presented by the Coolidge Corner Science on Screen program. Come join him! More: https://coolidge.org/films/lost-world-jurassic-park. Details about Barnas’ book “The Furious Case of the Fraudulent Fossil” can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Furious-Fraudulent-Galactic-Academy-Science/dp/0985000856/ref=sr_1_1

07/02/2023

Congratulations to Tumblehome Author Steve Kress, “The Puffin Plan: Restoring Seabirds to Egg Rock and Beyond” for the amazing story (and cover photo) in the Summer 2023 edition of Audubon Magazine about his puffin project: https://www.zinio.com/audubon-magazine-m4881. You can purchase a copy of the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Puffin-Plan-Restoring-Seabirds-Beyond/dp/1943431728/ref=asc_df_1943431728

06/08/2023

Tumblehome's Barnas Monteith has released a new AI pre-print manuscript. about how different languages tend have different semantic accuracies / efficiences in large language models (like ChatGPT) due to the enature of the language itself. This will potentially lead to local advantages for LLM's and can also inform how we develop LLM-based educational technology tools for different foreign language speakers. Check it out here:

Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized the way we interact with technology, and ChatGPT, based on the GPT-3.5 architecture, has garnered significant attention for its exceptional performance. The widespread adoption of ChatGPT by over 100 million users within three months, genera...

04/04/2023

Our first audio book is out now! Learn about coronavirus and how it is affecting everyone, through the adventures of Mae and Clinton, students and special recruits of the Galactic Academy of Sciences.
https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Case-of-the-Covid-Crisis-Audiobook/B0BW2NPNDD
https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/audiobook/the-case-of-the-covid-crisis
The Case of the Covid Crisis Audiobook on Libro.fm

04/01/2023

Barnas Monteith, has recently been named organizational PI (Principal Investigator) for a $2 million NSF grant to explore a new data science / AI curriculum, that will help students better understand how math, logic and computer science relate to each other. The project, named LogicDS, will use fun and engaging machine learning data sets as key examples for modern computational thinking. The project team, based at Texas Tech University, in collaboration with Concord Consortium and Tumblehome, will work with rural and urban students at schools in Texas, Florida and Massachusetts, to analyze a new logic-based approach to education. The team will investigate how logic learning can serve as the common basis for other disciplines, such as AI/computer science, related statistics/probability mathematics, and programming in data-centric languages like R and apply this knowledge to other languages like Python. At the end of the intervention, students will be able to use advanced data wrangling and statistics techniques for their own science & engineering projects. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2201393

03/26/2023

Tumblehome’s youngest author was recognized on Good Morning America as part of their Women’s History Month feature about the "Next Generation of Change Makers" a few days ago, for using Artificial Intelligence and robotic technology to find microplastics in the ocean. Congratulations to Anna Du, author of Microplastics and Me. They not only talked about Anna’s project but had her demonstrate it live during the show from their New York City studios (along with her mentor Barnas Monteith). You can find more information about Anna's book at https://tumblehomebooks.org/book/microplastics-and-me/

03/21/2023

Barnas & Pat Monteith were at the MA School Library Association conference yesterday at UMass Amherst and got to chat with many K-12 school librarians around the state.

01/16/2023

Congratulations to Tumblehome for being awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation grant this week for a project titled: “Puffins: Exploring how narrative, data science, and artificial intelligence enhance the study of ecology in middle school.”

Barnas Monteith, Tumblehome Co-Founder and resident AI education expert, commented, "We're really excited to be able to further develop our AI curriculum approach at Tumblehome. AI is pretty much everywhere these days, from videogames to Alexa to TikTok filters to ChatGPT, children are being saturated in machine learning applications and experiences. But for many kids, AI is still a black box.

Because the project is NSF funded, the curriculum and materials produced from this project will be made freely available to the public, so teachers and students across the country can make use of what Tumblehome creates and learns, from this study.

Stay tuned for more -- and be sure to check out our Benjamin Franklin Award-winning book, The Puffin Plan, here: https://tumblehomebooks.org/book/the-puffin-plan/

12/24/2022

12/12/2022

FREE study guides for teachers, for Eva Pell's three children’s books about endangered species: orangutans, Tahki (wild horses) and Panamanian Frogs. Learn more here:

New! Free Study Guides for Teachers So here I am. I did it. I wrote three children’s books about rescuing endangered species —ResQ and the Baby Orangutan; ResQ Takes on the Takhi; and ResQ in Panamá: Can We Save The Frogs?(https://www.evapell.com). I signed with a nonprofit publisher— Tumbleh...