1. Categories of tools For tasks
Gaining knowledge
Complete teaching and/or Showcase and apply
learning activities more knowledge
efficiently
Gather real world information
about to make decisions Interact, collaborate,
and connect with others
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2. DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS TASKS
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3. DATA COLLECTION & ANALYSIS (DC&A) TASKS:
• Discussion Questions :
o What is your definition of “data analysis?” What do you
think of?
o What about “data collection?” What do you think of for
that?
o In your school experiences, when have you collected data?
Analyzed data?
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4. DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS:
TASKS DEFINED
Data Collection and Analysis (DC&A) tasks:
o Tasks where students gather real world information about a problem and
study/evaluate to come up with a conclusion/solution for the problem.
Data analysis tasks
o Finding patterns & trends
o Working with words, ideas, and/or numbers
o Classify, sequence, relate things to each other
Data collection tasks
o Collecting your own data
o Finding existing data: gathering and collecting it
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5. DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS:
ACROSS SUBJECT AREAS
• And tools for DC&A tasks help them do this.
But how does this work across subject areas and
grade levels…?
Discussion Question:
How can students in my subject area learn through
collecting data? Analyzing data?
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6. DATA ANALYSIS TASKS
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7. WHAT ARE DATA ANALYSIS TASKS?
• Its all about thinking about, moving around,
organizing and looking for patterns in data.
• Provide students with raw materials (facts, numbers,
words, etc)
• Asks them to draw conclusions and facts on their
own
• Not limited to numbers – it’s about patterns of all
types
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8. EXAMPLES OF ANALYZING DATA
• Taking measurements of three different plants over
the course of a month (science)
• Looking up the parties of presidential election
winners and recording them for each election year
(social studies)
• Looking at multiple poems and finding the common
meters, themes, structures, etc
• Measuring angles and using these measurements to
create “rules” for geometry
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9. WHY BOTHER WITH DATA ANALYSIS TASKS?
• Analyzing your own data makes it more ‘real’
• Gives a visual way to view information (Ex: Wordle or
InspireData)
• It also teaches problem solving
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