Category Archives: Data Literacy

Informal Inference: Reframing Instructional Design for Data Literacy?

Posted on May 6, 2020 by Bill Zoellick

We collect and analyze data in order to make inferences. Sure, there are other reasons to collect data.  For example, every year I write down the date that the forsythias come into bloom in our backyard. No inferences there … … Continue reading →

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Making Students’ Thinking Visible While Apart

Posted on April 12, 2020 by Bill Zoellick

Schools in Maine shut down at the start of the third week of March. They will not reopen before the end of this school year. When the schools shut down, my teaching partner, Sarah Hooper, and I were working with … Continue reading →

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Whereto Data Literacy?

Posted on April 29, 2019 by Bill Zoellick

Over the past decade, there has been increased attention to the idea that students should learn how to make sense of data and use it in decision-making. It could be the next new big thing in education, hot on the … Continue reading →

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Design of Middle and High School Citizen Science Programs

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Bill Zoellick

I have been invited by a National Academy of Science committee to share some of what we have learned at the Schoodic Institute in more than 10 years of designing and implementing citizen science programs in schools. The invitation was … Continue reading →

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