1. Strategies for Using Data in Teaching
Experience in Science 465 and Geology 100
Mike Taber
University of Northern Colorado

2. Questions to Ponder Why use data in the classroom?
It may be their only opportunity to work with real data
Are your learning objectives driven by content or by process?

3. What are students telling us about how they learn?

6. Issues Technology (Student) frustration management
Don’t let the technology get in the way of the content
Lack basic skills in making graphs (excel)
Communicate with pre-requisite instructors
Lack vocabulary, such as “bitmap”
Ditto
Must have admin privileges for troubleshooting the technology (don’t let the IT people be the only ones with admin access!)
Hmm…
How are you going to manage reporting of results?
Blackboard

7. Issues Data Real-time display can be slow
Visualize and analyze data from local drive source (information for developers)
Students are extremely unfamiliar with how to determine reliability of data
force students to be critical
Determining depth in data is too abstract
Find a tool that allows you to layer data and perform queries among two or more layers (resulting in a new display)

8. Managing Project-Based Learning
Define content, inquiry skill, and technology skill outcomes simultaneously
Design activities with the skills in mind Content will evolve from the activity itself
You must have technology support
Establish working groups - They can’t consult with me until they have consulted with each other