…aspect of this movement involves rethinking what’s included in the practice of analyzing and interpreting data. Data moves* are operations that re-structure, re-represent, and re-construct data in ways that help…
…second grade to find out if new visualization technologies could help young students explain phenomena of temperature and heat scientifically. We discovered that these children readily accept the idea that…
…students make with a static equilibrium model in SageModeler (Figure 2). Figure 1. Example generic graph consisting of nodes and directed links. Source: https://github.com/dagrejs/graphlib/wiki/APIReference#alg-components Figure 2. Example static equilibrium model…
…dynamic visualizations to help foster kindergarten students’ thinking about dynamic relationships between heat and energy transfer and the nature and makeup of matter. During this work, we co-developed an online…
…technologies, cultivate outside perspectives, and provide opportunities for reflection on our work. Check, check, and check. Amy brought all that and more. Amy Hammett. Photo credit: Maizenews.com. Used with permission….
…by Computational Thinking) project is to help students do more than simply look at graphs of sensor data. We want them to do things with data: to build dynamic systems…
…teachers—need guidance and clearly demonstrated examples to help them see the value of these approaches. Parents and policymakers also need a similar deep understanding of STEM education to help them…
There are 99,000 public schools in the United States. And there are thousands of software applications and technologies shown by research to help students learn. But despite these numbers, we…
…pace, we developed online educative curriculum materials (ECMs). These ECM features focused on how to help students formulate causal mechanistic explanations related to plate tectonics. Our hypothesis was that the…
…Data Analysis Platform (CODAP), students analyze public scientific datasets. Units designed with Dual Language Learners (DLL) in mind help students share their investigations through writing that blends familiar and academic…