VISUALIZING OCEANS OF DATA Educational Interface Design

Educational Technology
Elementary
Middle
High
Undergraduate
Graduate

Science is data-intensive, but today’s science education is not. In most classrooms, students’ work with data is limited to reading graphs prepared by others, or at best collecting simple data sets themselves. While these student-collected data sets allow students to begin building their data proficiency, the conclusions that can be drawn and the lessons that can be learned from these data are limited in scope and can sometimes be compromised by data quality.

Access Link
http://oceansofdata.org/our-work/visualizing-oceans-data-educational-interface-…
Author/Presenter

Ruth Krumhansl

Cheryl Peach

June Foster

Amy Busey

Irene Baker

Jackie DeLisi

Year
2012
Short Description

The Oceans of Data project has made an attempt to define and confront what is “hard” for students and teachers who attempt to use large, online professional data sets. We feel passionately that it’s important for us to do this to prepare today’s students for tomorrow’s world.

VISUALIZING OCEANS OF DATA Educational Interface Design

Educational Technology
Elementary
Middle
High
Undergraduate
Graduate

Science is data-intensive, but today’s science education is not. In most classrooms, students’ work with data is limited to reading graphs prepared by others, or at best collecting simple data sets themselves. While these student-collected data sets allow students to begin building their data proficiency, the conclusions that can be drawn and the lessons that can be learned from these data are limited in scope and can sometimes be compromised by data quality.

Access Link
http://oceansofdata.org/our-work/visualizing-oceans-data-educational-interface-…
Author/Presenter

Ruth Krumhansl

Cheryl Peach

June Foster

Amy Busey

Irene Baker

Jackie DeLisi

Year
2012
Short Description

The Oceans of Data project has made an attempt to define and confront what is “hard” for students and teachers who attempt to use large, online professional data sets. We feel passionately that it’s important for us to do this to prepare today’s students for tomorrow’s world.

Institute

The Cyber Enabled Learning project will host an institute on April 12, 2013, from 5 pm to 7 pm. All participating teachers and administrators are invited. The purpose of the institute is to report the teachers' progress, their achivements, their impact on the students, how this project benefits students, and how administrators can support the teachers.

Job Opportunity

Oregon State University seeks a full-time Director to lead and grow its university-wide Center for Research on Lifelong STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Learning.  The Center was established in 2012 with a mission to conduct research and development that leads to enhanced understanding of the processes that underlie how individuals become lifelong STEM learners and practitioners.  The Center is unique in its focus on learning research across disciplines, the lifespan and all settings (in and out of school).

Envisioning Scientifically Literate Students Fifteen Years after Graduation: The Promise of Educative Science Journalism

Science
High
Author/Presenter

Joseph Polman

Alan Newman

Cathy Farrar

E. Wendy Saul

Lead Organization(s)
University of Missouri-St. Louis
Year
2012
Short Description

The “Science Literacy Through Science Journalism” (SciJourn) project explores how the practices of good science journalism can inform high school science education. As high school students report science news, they learn to gather and contextualize information and bring critical eyes to that which they read and write. This effort can be contrasted to the goal of making every student a “little scientist.”

Resource(s)
polman-etal2012-tst-scijourn(1).pdf

Teachers as Editors, Editors as Teachers

Science
High
Access Link
http://www.parlorpress.com/wrab
Author/Presenter

Angela M. Kohnen

Lead Organization(s)
University of Missouri-St. Louis
Year
2012
Short Description

In this study, we examine how a professional science news editor and high school teachers respond to student writing in order to understand the values and priorities each bring to bear on student work. These questions guided our work:

• How do teachers respond to authentic genres in content-area classes?
• How does teacher response compare to the responses of a professional editor?

Resource(s)
Kohnen teachers as editors published.pdf

SmartGraphs Authoring Tool

Mathematics
Science
Middle
High

A demonstration of the SmartGraphs software, and features of the authoring system, is available here: Authoring Demo. Concord is also making the authoring system available to any NSF-funded project that wants to incorporate Web-based SmartGraphs activities into its work. Activities run directly in a browser, so there is nothing to download or install. See http://smartgraphs.org for details about SmartGraphs.

Access Link
http://smartgraphs-authoring.concord.org/?utm_source=concord.org&utm_medium=Lan…
Author/Presenter

Concord Consortium

Lead Organization(s)
Concord Consortium
Year
2013
Short Description

SmartGraphs is free, open source software that helps students understand graphs and concepts represented in graphs (e.g., slope, velocity, half-life, global warming).

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