…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…
…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…
…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…
…to be awed. The vastness of the solution space of a complex design problem is far beyond what language can describe. To comprehend its magnitude, consider these two facts: 1)…
…with them. To students, however, they are a foreign language. More often than not, they obscure the phenomena they attempt to describe instead of making them more accessible. But this…
…and animals in their backyards, parks, and other important places, creating snapshots that help us understand changes in climate and habitat over time. These are just a handful of examples…
…rest, she says, is history. She now teaches 7th and 8th grade general science to ENL (English as a New Language) students in the Freeport Public Schools in Freeport, New…