Week of Events
Statistics for Teaching Advanced Science: Part 8 Choosing the Most Appropriate Stats for Your Data
Statistics for Teaching Advanced Science: Part 8 Choosing the Most Appropriate Stats for Your Data
(W Oct 14, 5-6:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time) This is the culminating workshop for the Statistics for Advanced Level Science series. In this session, we will compare the application of different hypothesis tests and discuss how more than one type of statistical analysis may be appropriate for the same set of data. We will look […]
Online Teaching Techniques: Using ThingLinks for Project-based Learning
Online Teaching Techniques: Using ThingLinks for Project-based Learning
(W Oct 14, 7-8:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time) Participants will explore two prepared examples of projects created with ThingLink to compare the degree of critical thinking and originality required when this tool is used to simply gather information or to apply ideas. By creating an original example each person will build a new project while […]
Student-designed Experiments: Part 3 Guiding Students Through Data Analysis
Student-designed Experiments: Part 3 Guiding Students Through Data Analysis
(Sa Oct 17, 11am-12:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time) Teachers will play the role of the students, collecting data in their own homes and pooling their observations and measurements in a spreadsheet shared by their lab partners. We will conduct data analysis within lab groups during the workshop to experience how this process can be performed […]
Standards-based Grading Series: Process Portfolios to Document Thinking and Learning
Standards-based Grading Series: Process Portfolios to Document Thinking and Learning
(Sa Oct 17, 1-2:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time) This 1.5 hr. workshop is dedicated to making thinking “visible” by documenting what influences a student’s thought process and by keeping track of the changes that occur when additional information is acquired. Process portfolios can be used in any subject area where a student’s ideas are evolving: […]