Practical information

Online classes

Once you have been notified that you have a place on the course, we will email you joining instructions for the online classes. They will be on Zoom.

Dates for 2024 session (cohort 1)

Session 1:21st February

Session 2: 20th March

Session 3: 24th April

Session 4: 22nd May

Session 5: 12th June

Reflection

After you try each data activity with your class, you will be asked to write a short post on the EdStem discussion board about what you learned. Once you have a place on the course, we'll email you with instructions on how to do this. It doesn’t need to be long (a few hundred words would be OK). You can share the post with the other course participants. The post will follow these prompts:

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?

Box of kit

We will also post you a box full of the kit which you will need for the activities. The box contains:

Data Literacy handbook
Book token
Dragonistics cards
Questions poster
Careers poster
2 observe collect draw worksheets
Escape the DATAbase roller coaster info sheets & worksheet
Logic puzzle worksheet
Data Monsters handouts (1 code handout, 1 graph worksheet, 1 microbits cheatsheet, 1 card monster template)

If you are missing any items, please contact Jasmeen.Kanwal@ed.ac.uk as soon as you can.

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