Community Data

Data literacy is at its most powerful when children use data to find out more about their local community and advocate for change. In this topic, you'll explore some examples of community data projects and try some out with your learners.

Preparation

Before the online class, please do the following:

• Watch this video about using an unusual form of data visualisation (data weaving) to show how children travel in their community.
• Read this article to find out more about the data weaving project
• Watch this video from a class of extremely determined children in Castlemilk, Glasgow, who used survey data to make the case that their community should have a supermarket. (If you're wondering whether the campaign was successful, it looks like it may be under construction. But if you have any local info, let us know at the class!)

Online class

Come to the online class on 22/5/24 at 7 - 9pm. We'll email you with the joining link.

Activity

After the class, try out one of these activities with your learners. You can choose from the following:

• Try out your own active travel project with data weaving with your school. Compare the ways children travel to your school with the national data.

  

• Use the Treezilla website to discover how the valuable the trees around your school are for the environment. If no one has added your favourite trees to the map yet, why not get your class to identify them and add them?
• Try out an activity which you tried during the online class, or heard about from another teacher at the course

Reflection, feedback and sharing

Once you've tried out the activity with your learners, please do the following. There will also be a chance for feedback and sharing at the next class.

Reflective writing 

Use the prompts to write a short post to help you reflect on how it went. It doesn’t need to be long (a few hundred words would be OK).

Facts: What was the topic and activity? Which learners took part, how many and what age group?

What happened? What did you do? What did the learners do? What did anyone else do?

What did you, as a teacher, learn? What have you learned as a result of this experience e.g. about teaching, your learners or about data literacy?

Your thoughts and feelings? What thoughts, ideas and feelings did you have before, during and after the session? Has your confidence changed as a result of teaching this activity?

What next? What is your next step? If you were to do this activity with another class, would you adapt it? What follow-up activity might you do with this class?

Feedback

Read the posts by two other members of the course and give them feedback. 

Share

Tell another teacher at your school about what you have been working on.