Kia ora t膩tou,
The end of the school year is approaching fast, and we hope you are enjoying the warmer weather with your students.
Over 38,500 students have taken part in CensusAtSchool this year! Wow!
We love seeing photos that teachers in kura and schools have sent in. Thank you so much for sharing these great action pics.
Photos from: Hay Park School, Tahuna School, Napier Girls鈥� High School, Marian Catholic School
We hope you enjoyed thinking about the standing jump data, which is a new question designed to allow comparison between groups – those that had a target and those that did not.
Because we鈥檙e all about听, it鈥檚 interesting that the top three participating senior schools are in the South Island, while the top three primary and intermediate schools are in the North Island!
We wonder what year levels your school plans to do the census and why, and do some students do it more than once, and if so why? We’re reviewing your survey feedback听for our end of year report.
Thanks for taking the time to tell us about your survey experiences. This will help make things better for future surveys.
Coming Up
DECEMBER 4
Statistics Teachers鈥� Day Illuminating Data Pathways
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Packed with presenters from around the motu sharing what鈥檚 going on in their classrooms, work, and research as they explore the world and develop their ideas and understanding with data.听Plus: Our new data detective classroom听posters will be given out on the day!
NOVEMBER 29
Online Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Education at School Level
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Free for all, held via Zoom.
Seen Elsewhere
Some A.I. entertainment:听
Chris Wild’s keynote address, which opened the IASE 2023 conference, is packed with AI-generated images and music, examines drivers and priorities for statistics and data science education and its students in the light of recent data trends including the rise of generative A.I.
Great ideas here.
Free online software for exploring data. The datasets have activities that suggest questions that students can find out the answers to by creating data visualisations. See听听and听.
Article by听Freakonomics‘ author Steven Levitt听looks at the argument for teaching students with the human and physical听sciences data.
This South Australian competition听has students follow their passion and collaborate to use their statistical and communication skills to answer questions. Reflect on the marking and feedback by other statistics educators to improve classroom teaching of data literacy.
A great,听fun example of bias!听Learn about this extraordinary bird and the extraordinary efforts that have gone into saving it.听Thank you John Darby and the听students at Mt Aspiring College. Kia kaha P奴teketeke!
Nga mihi nui
Rachel & Anne and Chris