…together – Robert Tinker, Me, Hee-Sun Lee, and Chad Dorsey – October, 2016. Bob Tinker at the March for Science in Amherst, MA – April 22, 2017. Photo credit: Barbara…
Eighteen states and the District of Columbia, representing more than a third of the U.S. student population, have adopted the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) since their release in 2013,…
…point I need to try to break it first,” she explains. In our Emeryville, California, office, she is surrounded by an orderly jungle of equipment: probes and sensors, MacBooks, Chromebooks,…
…investigate their own questions. Trees in a Diagnosis Game Students use data to build binary trees for decision-making and prediction. They put “training data” through an algorithm, then automate the…
…model you’d most like us to build. To Vote 1) Go to our Facebook page (you like us on Facebook already, right?) 2) Look for the poll pinned to the…
…Essential Elements of Data Science Education” by William Finzer and Frieda Reichsman Data from U.S. Census at School. Explore the data yourself in our Common Online Data Analysis (CODAP) software….
…2.5 million users in schools around the world have explored local and global data—from data about crops to climate, earthquakes, education, and more. Data fluency—the ability to explore, interpret, visualize,…
…explanation. While investigating their world, students generate data using traditional lab tools, sensors, and simulations, then bring their data into CODAP. A “visible” target-match challenge in Geniventure. When the student…
…materials. The class also leverages materials they wrote as part of the MODULE(S2) project. Andrew is happy to report, too, that he has used CODAP “by student request!” in his…
…JRuby is twice as fast as Ruby 1.9. More details about some of these measurements are here: Ruby 1.8.6, 1.9, and JRuby running on Java 1.5, 1.6, and 1.7 compared…