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=Week 5: Statistical Reasoning, Focus on Data Visualization=

toc The topic of this week is statistical reasoning, with the focus on manipulating and visualizing data.


 * The objectives** of Week 5 are:
 * To collect a library of visualization tools
 * To design and to critique statistics lessons
 * To trace the implications of ubiquitous data-collection devices

The main technology tools this week are Diigo, screencasts, blogs, email groups, live webinars, online videos and wikis.

Audio Introduction
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The class live meetings happen three times a week, one of them required, the other two recommended for doing weekly tasks together. During these times, we will meet [|in Wimba virtual room]. You are welcome to invite colleagues and friends to this open room, if they are interested in participating. You can also use the room for class collaboration outside of these hours.


 * Monday 7-8pm** community study and Q&A hour
 * Wednesday 8-9pm** weekly class discussion
 * Friday 8-9am** community study and Q&A hour

There are eight required tasks and one bonus task this week.

Musical Interlude
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Task Grids
. We all use pie charts, bar graphs and tables. Find five less common data visualization tools you think should be more common. In your blog or in a screencast (linked from your blog), explain how you would use each tool with students. You can include pictures created by others, with attribution.
 * || **5-1**

Inspirational sources: Design a student task or a mini-unit on any secondary probability or statistics topic, centered on data visualization. You don't have to write up a detailed lesson plan; write just enough for another teacher to be able to build on your general idea. Make sure you include a description of an appropriate assessment. Keep in mind the overall vision provided by the five most important math ed principles you named in Week 1, and align your task with some of the principles you consider important. || **5-3** Online, find a secondary level task or a lesson plan that involves data manipulation and visualization. Write your "math ed connoisseur" critique of the task in your blog, linking the source, or make a screencast.
 * [|The periodic table of visualizations]
 * [|Flowing Data blog]
 * [|Information Aesthetic blog] || **5-2**

//Ideas to consider: analyze your find from the points of view of multiple representations, problem posing and solving, and Bloom's taxonomy// . Find sources that describe the following types of assessment, sorted into categories by different principles. Critique sources and assessment types in a blog post and/or screencast. Which types would you use and why?
 * //[|Misleading graphs collection]// ||
 * GraceA || http://gk1as.wordpress.com/2010/08/14/visualization-tools/ || http://gk1as.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/statistics-lesson/ || http://gk1as.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/misleading-graphs/ ||
 * MariaD ||  ||   ||   ||
 * KateG || http://ktgee24.wordpress.com/2010/08/14/five-underrated-visualization-tools/ || http://ktgee24.wordpress.com/2010/08/14/design-a-task-centered-on-data-visualization/ || http://ktgee24.wordpress.com/2010/08/14/lesson-critique/ ||
 * aheleniak || http://teachy79.wordpress.com/2010/08/07/five-less-common-data-visualization-tools/ || http://teachy79.wordpress.com/2010/08/07/probability-lesson-plan/ || http://teachy79.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/lesson-plan-creating-a-free-standing-structure/ ||
 * Peterhorn33 || http://screencast.com/t/MDg4NTA3OTMt || http://screencast.com/t/NTNhNmFkZ || http://wp.me/pZvA3-1d ||
 * EthanL || http://wp.me/PZtr1-24 || http://wp.me/PZtr1-2i || http://wp.me/PZtr1-2y ||
 * Paul McDowell || [] || [] || [] ||
 * Sam Morrison || [] || [] || http://semhouston1.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/student-task-focused-on-data-visualization-scatter-plot-basketball/ ||
 * GRice || [] || [] || [] ||
 * Doug Snyder || [|Data Visualization Tools] || [|Doug's Probability Task] || [|Data Visualization Lesson Plan] ||
 * RStock || http://bobbo1.wordpress.com/2010/08/08/data-visualizations/ || http://bobbo1.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/scatter-plots/ || [] ||
 * Al_J_Williams || http://ajw0812.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/data-visualization-tools/ || http://ajw0812.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/statistics-lesson-plan-percent-body-fat/ || [] ||
 * || **5-4**
 * By goal: Formative and summative
 * By neutrality: Objective and subjective
 * By the entity doing it: Self-assessment, peer assessment, another person assessment, automatic (computer) assessment
 * By response: Constructed-response and selected-response
 * By mind properties: Ability and performance
 * By contextualization: Authentic and standardized

You can search the web or libraries for sources, or use this annotated list: [] || **5-5** Revisit task: Find a partner in the class. Your goal is to help one another build on designs of last week's student tasks. You can work together and discuss "what can you do with it" - add resources, pose interesting problems, make introductions more intriguing, ask students deep questions, and so on. Post improvement suggestions as comments to your partner's blog post from last week, and reply to comments in your own blog post, until you feel a substantial progress is made on both. You can also discuss your designs on the phone or in the Wimba room, and post summaries in blog comments. || [] ||
 * GraceA || http://gk1as.wordpress.com/2010/08/26/types-of-assessments/ || [] ||
 * MariaD ||  ||   ||
 * KateG || http://ktgee24.wordpress.com/2010/08/26/types-of-assessment/ || did make-up task 5-8 ||
 * aheleniak || http://teachy79.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/types-of-assessments/ || I did make-up task 5-8 in lieu of this task. ||
 * Peterhorn33 || http://screencast.com/t/MWE1YjBkNm || http://esivel.wordpress.com/2010/08/05/symmetry-assignment/#comment-23 ||
 * EthanL || http://wp.me/PZtr1-2J || http://prmarcadia.wordpress.com/week-4/week-4-task-2/#comment-23 ||
 * Paul McDowell || [] || I will be working with Ethan and Peter on this task.
 * Sam Morrison || http://semhouston1.wordpress.com/2010/08/14/124/ || http://ajw0812.wordpress.com/2010/08/03/symmetry-mini-unit/#comment-27 ||
 * GRice || []/ || I am working with Grace [] ||
 * Doug Snyder || [|Assessment Types in Mathematics] || [|Comment on Bobbo's Blog] ||
 * RStock || http://bobbo1.wordpress.com/2010/08/12/assessment/ || [] comment on Doug's Blog ||
 * Al_J_Williams || [] || [] ||

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media type="youtube" key="sfEbMV295Kk" height="385" width="640" Attend the live class meeting on Wednesday. //Bonus task: attend community study hours on Monday and/or Friday//
 * || **5-6**

//**Tech problems with BB - this counts as "done" for everybody; most people made it sooner or later.**// || **5-7** Attend one or more of the following live events happening online this week. Follow links for instructions on how to use platforms. You can add other events to this list. They must be free, open to everybody, and recorded.

Say what alias you used to participate, if it's not your name. **Contribute something during the meeting - a question, comments in chat, references.**

Briefly reflect on the event in your blog. Constructive criticism is especially helpful for event organizers. The blog post needs to link to the event's page.

MariaD will add events on Sunday - many of them are only announced a few days ahead of time.


 * Math ed events:**
 * MathFlo algebra workflow system Saturday 2pm
 * [|Meaning of "randomness" through lexical ambiguity] Tuesday 2pm
 * #mathchat Monday 3:30pm and Thursday 7:30pm
 * [|First Year Calculus with Wolfram] Tuesday 6pm


 * General ed events:**
 * [|Behind the scenes at Classroom 2.0] Wednesday 7am
 * [|"It takes a village" with Greg Whitby] Thursday 7:30pm
 * [|Global resources for collaboration] Friday 8am
 * [|Virtual Learning Commons] Monday 7:30pm
 * [|Mini-Geek Fest] Monday 11pm
 * [|EdTechTalk] Tuesday 2pm, Wednesday 9pm
 * [|"Hanging out, messing around..."] at the book club Wednesday 7pm
 * [|Instructional design live] Friday noon
 * [|Classroom 2.0] live Saturday noon
 * [|Special Education Forum: Universal design for learning] Monday 8pm
 * [|K-3 resources] Tuesday 8pm
 * [|Action research] Wednesday 7pm
 * [|Classroom assessment] Thursday 7pm
 * [|Webheads in action: languages] Sunday 8am
 * [|#edchat] Tuesday noon and 7pm


 * Sources of events**
 * http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/events
 * []
 * []
 * []
 * []
 * #mathchat
 * [|Wolfram Education]
 * [|#edchat] || **5-8 Make-up task (optional)**

This will count as a task, to replace any one you miss during the course for grade counting. Read and review "[|The Data-Driven Life]" article. What are educational implications of these new "data-driven" lifestyles? Write a brief review in your blog or make a screencast. || http://teachy79.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/how-do-we-handle-wide-ability-ranges-in-a-single-class/ || http://teachy79.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/data-driven-life-article/ || http://wp.me/PZtr1-2C || http://wp.me/PZtr1-29 || [] || [] || It takes a village" with Greg Whitby ||  ||
 * GraceA || done || http://gk1as.wordpress.com/2010/08/14/algebra-workflow-system/ || http://gk1as.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/data-driven-life/ ||
 * MariaD || done ||  ||   ||
 * KateG || done || http://ktgee24.wordpress.com/2010/08/14/mathflo-sat-814/ || http://ktgee24.wordpress.com/2010/08/21/data-driven-life/ ||
 * aheleniak || done || [|K-3 resources] Tuesday 8pm...I tried to attend this but it has been canceled.
 * Peterhorn33 || done || Will do two next week (I had computer and family issues all week long, both are better now:-) ||  ||
 * EthanL || done || Meaning of randomness
 * Paul McDowell || done || [|EdTechTalk] Tuesday 2pm, Wednesday 9pm
 * Sam Morrison || done || please use make-up task || [] ||
 * GRice || done || [] ||  ||
 * Doug Snyder || Done ||  || I missed a live event for the week, so here is my [|Data Driven Review] ||
 * RStock || done || [|http://bobbo1.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/][|the-future-of-education][|/] comments on
 * Al_J_Williams || done || http://ajw0812.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/math-manipulatives-info-from-twitter-session/ ||  ||

There are no task dependencies this week.

Voice explanation about tasks:

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