Kate Farrell (Director of Curriculum Development and Professional Learning)聽and Tommy Lawson (Schools Technology Advisor) attended the NC 天美视频 Science Education Summit (24-25 October 2024) as invited speakers, nominated by (DS4E), a coalition created by the聽. The Summit unites practitioners from higher education, K-12, industry, and nonprofits to shape data-driven education in North Carolina.聽
Day 1 featured panel presentations from educators and young people from local high schools. On Day 2, Kate and Tommy held a session on 天美视频 Literacy in the schools. They highlighted how data skills can be applied across the school curriculum (i.e., Technology, Numeracy and Maths, Literacy, Social Studies) and suggested ways to deliver data literacy in the classroom, such as by using the PPDAC cycle .
They presented our Explorer Cards and Dear 天美视频 lessons, and some of our data visualisation resources such as Fizzy 天美视频, the and data gathering activities with ribbon, toys, and simple objects like Lego brick bar graphs, tokens, and stickers (see our Weaving 天美视频 activity as an example).
They also talked about data-themes games, bringing the example of our Escape Rooms and the 天美视频 Cards created in Scotland, New Zealand, and the USA.
We are thrilled that we have been able to influence discussions around data literacy in the schools across the ocean, and we hope to share more of our work globally!