4. Data Literacy Introduction
Watch the following video to give a wider context for data visualization and data literacy.
Overview
This module is designed to provide a wide range of interpretations of data, how it is perceived in your local school or district and innovative ways to view data and share it with all school stakeholders. Here is an outline of the topics covered:
- Formative Assessments
- Formative assessments within context
- Types of formative assessments
- How to evaluate formative assessments
- Creation of data
- Data-Driven Decision Making
- The Culture
- Data Conversations with Students, Parents and the Community
- Examples of schools that have done this effectively
- Authentic Assessment Tools
- Rubrics and PBL in a UDL model
- Digital Badges
- Standards Based Grading
- Data Visualizations
- What it is and why it's powerful
- Infographics - passive consumption of data
- Creation of data visualizations
Objectives
Upon completion of this module, participants will:
- What you and your fellow learners' experience is with data
- Who defines the data that impacts your local schools, as well as your classmates' schools, and
- How to create a data visualization and why its powerful for learners of all ages
- How your students reflect on the data that they create as a result of the assessments you provide
- Your growth and areas for growth, as they relate to the ISTE NETS for Teachers Assessment and Evaluation Standards