Teachers, Tech, and Modeling in Journal of Science Teacher Education

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This paper explores the role that technology can play in engaging pre-service teachers with the iterative, “messy” nature of model-based inquiry. Over the course of 5 weeks, 11 pre-service teachers worked in groups to construct models of diffusion using a computational animation and simulation toolkit, and designed lesson plans for the toolkit. Content analyses of group discussions and lesson plans documentContinue Reading

ICLS 2016: Case Study in Reasoning w/ Data Visualizations

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Data visualizations are transforming how information is communicated. Educators should understand and support how youth reason about these complex representational artifacts. We analyze an interview in which young learners interpreted an interactive visualization as describing both relative distribution and absolute trendsContinue Reading

Introducing DataSketch at CPTTE 2016

We will be presenting an early version of DataSketch at the 2016 Conference for Pen and Touch Technologies in Education – March 31 in Providence, RI.