DSPL Tutorial - DSPL: Dataset Publishing Language DSPL stands for Dataset Publishing Language. Datasets described in DSPL can be imported into the Google Public Data Explorer, a tool that allows for rich, visual exploration of the data. Note: To upload data to Google Public Data using the Public Data upload tool, you must have a Google Account. This tutorial provides a step-by-step example of how to prepare a basic DSPL dataset. A DSPL dataset is a bundle that contains an XML file and a set of CSV files. The only prerequisite for understanding this tutorial is a good level of understanding of XML. Contents Overview Before starting to create our dataset, here is a high-level overview of what a DSPL dataset contains: General information: About the dataset Concepts: Definitions of "things" that appear in the dataset (e.g., countries, unemployment rate, gender, etc.) This example dataset defines the following concepts: country gender population state unemployment rate year Dataset Information Using information from other datasets Defining Concepts
A Guide to Ethical Decision Making for Insider Research (Epilogue) Source: Epilogue from Ethical Issues in Practitioner Research, ed Jane Zeni (Teachers College Press, 2001), pp. 153-165. Practitioner research has become a major mode of inquiry in American education. As classroom teachers discover the intellectual excitement of studying their own practice and the power of collaborative action research with other insiders, many decide to pursue their inquiries through grant proposals, publications, or graduate theses. Most universities and school districts have an institutional review board (IRB) that monitors research proposals using questions designed for traditional scientific experiments. In my graduate classes, I find that teachers see the issues more clearly by locating action research on a matrix of research methods (see Figure 1). Figure 1. Figure 1 illustrates modes of research across two dimensions: qualitative/ quantitative and insider/ outsider. When does good teaching become research? An Alternative Human Subjects Review? Comments.
50 Questions To Promote Metacognition In Students 50 Questions To Help Students Think About What They Think by Lisa Chesser Using the right questions creates powerful, sometimes multiple answers and discussions. Aristotle said that he asked questions in response to other people’s views, while Socrates focused on disciplined questioning to get to the truth of the matter. Ultimately questions spark imagination, conjure emotions, and create more questions. If students are the ones gathering that information then they’re the ones learning it and student-driven learning cements lessons into the students’ mind making any lesson more powerful with this strategy. The questions are unrestricted and open the mind up to unfettered thought, perfect for innovation and understanding. Logical Questions Within the realm of mathematics, there are certain types of questions that build up to those aha moments or topple barriers. The addition of philosophical questioning to mathematics enhances critical thinking in every learner. Reflection & Collaboration
Google Opens Up Infographic Tools for Everyone's Use A great data for data geeks of all stripes: Today, Google has opened up the tools on its Public Data Explorer, so that you can use them to chart any old data set you might have laying around. "If you're a student or a journalist or a teacher, you can upload your data and get the same visualizations that we have for our own product," Ben Yolken, Google's product manager for the Public Data Explorer, tells Co.Design. The tools were first rolled out a year ago, after the company bought up the Gapminder Trendalizer, a bubble-chart data-viz technology invented by Dr. [Dr. Thus, on the PDE site right now, you can see all manner of amazing time-based data animations, such as the relationship between fertility and life expectancy in the last 50 years; 20 years of U.S unemployment data; and even STD transmission in the last 15 years. [Dr Rosling show how rich the tools are] But Google isn't trying to supplant Excel or Powerpoint.
Educom - Associação Portuguesa de Telemática Educativa - Home Instilling Trust It is our job to teach our children independence. We need that independence to go hand in hand with trust. We need to trust that our children will act within the set of boundaries that we have defined for them. We need to trust that our children will tell us the truth to the best of their ability when they are young and absolutely as they get older. We cannot let them go if we cannot trust them. Am I intentionally teaching trust? Keep every promise. Read this blog for more articles. Copyright 2014 © Cindy Terebush All Rights Reserved
Network Diagram When to use a network diagram Real-world information often comes in the form of relationships between entities or items, such as people who know each other (social networks), or Web pages that are connected to each other. In a network diagram, entities are connected to each other in the form of a node and link diagram. How network diagrams work A network consists of a set of objects called vertices connected by edges. The network display in Many Eyes is fully interactive and can be zoomed and panned to obtain a detailed view of different sections of the graph: Pan : Drag using the right mouse button to view a different area of the graph. and buttons on the bottom to zoom in and out. view reset button. Selection : To highlight nodes, select them with the left mouse button. button at the bottom of the screen. Direction : If the direction of links is relevant to your dataset you can toggle arrowheads on edges by clicking the button. Data requirements
PTE - CompetênciasTIC Estudos sobre a implementação de Competências TIC nas escolas portuguesas encomendado pelo GEPE/ME no âmbito do "Eixo Formação" do Plano Tecnológico da Educação. Costa, F. [Coord.] (2008). Competências TIC. Estudo de Implementação (Vol.I). Costa, F. A Four-Phase Process For Implementing Essential Questions by Grant Wiggins, Ph.D, AuthenticEducation.org We had a delightful visit to The School of the Future in New York City the other day. Lots of engaged kids, a great blend of instruction and constructivist work, and an obvious intellectual culture. And as the picture illustrates, everywhere we went we also saw helpful visual reminders of the big ideas and essential questions framing the work we were watching: School of the Future staff have long been users of UbD tools and ideas. But far too often over the years I have seen plenty of good stuff posted like this – but no deep embedding of the Essential Question (EQ) into the unit design and lessons that make it up. Let’s start with a simple example from my own teaching. At every turn, in other words, the EQ looms large in the unit. This is far different than what we typically see in walk-throughs where EQs are being used. All well and good in English, Grant; what about math? Same thing. What is the unknown? (example – secondary Science)
Eurozone debt web: Who owes what to whom? The circle below shows the gross external, or foreign, debt of some of the main players in the eurozone as well as other big world economies. The arrows show how much money is owed by each country to banks in other nations. The arrows point from the debtor to the creditor and are proportional to the money owed as of the end of June 2011. Click on a country name to see who they owe Europe is struggling to find a way out of the eurozone crisis amid mounting debts, stalling growth and widespread market jitters. But, with global financial systems so interconnected, this is not just a eurozone problem and the repercussions extend beyond its borders. While lending between nations presents little problem during boom years, when a country can no longer handle its debts, those overseas banks and financial institutions that lent it money are exposed to losses. So, in the tangled web of inter-country lending, who owes what to whom? GDP: €1.8 tn Foreign debt: €4.2 tn €66,508 Foreign debt per person
Connectivist Learning Theory - Siemens Connectivist learning theory, by George Siemens "A central tenet of most learning theories is that learning occurs inside a person. Even social constructivist views, which hold that learning is a socially enacted process, promotes the principality of the individual (and her/his physical presence – i.e. brain-based) in learning. These theories do not address learning that occurs outside of people (i.e. learning that is stored and manipulated by technology)… In a networked world, the very manner of information that we acquire is worth exploring. The need to evaluate the worthiness of learning something is a meta-skill that is applied before learning itself begins. Connectivism is the integration of principles explored by chaos, network, and complexity and self-organization theories… "what is it that's unique about connectivism. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. - Learning and knowledge rests in diversity of opinions. - Learning is a process of connecting specialized nodes or information sources. Dave Pollard:
The Infographic Revolution: Where Do We Go From Here? The infographic may seem to some to be a modern phenomenon; but not many know of the true origins and purpose of an infographic. For one thing, it isn’t an invention of the digital medium, it is merely popularized by it. In this article I will be examining the origins of an infographic and how it is more popularly used today. We will take a step back and look at how the data used in these infographics truly enhancing our user experience, and study how much of it is really newsworthy. The Birth of the Infographic The are effective, that is for sure. As I mentioned earlier, infographics are not something new, in fact it has already been put to good use, in print, centuries before. Diagram of The Causes of Mortality in The Army in The East The next example is an exercise in brand promotion, created by the London Underground. Figures for 1923, by Charles Shepard, 1924 Infographics: Printing Press to the Digital Screen And this is where businesses and brands can benefit from infographics.
Bloom: The Evolution of Life on Earth and the Birth of Ecology (Joan As Police Woman Sings Emily Dickinson) – The Marginalian This is the first of nine installments in the animated interlude season of The Universe in Verse in collaboration with On Being, celebrating the wonder of reality through stories of science winged with poetry. See the rest here. Two hundred million years ago, long before we walked the Earth, it was a world of cold-blooded creatures and dull color — a kind of terrestrial sea of brown and green. But then, in the Cretaceous period, flowers appeared and carpeted the world with astonishing rapidity — because, in some poetic sense, they invented love. Once there were flowers, there were fruit — that transcendent alchemy of sunlight into sugar. Without flowers, there would be no us. No poetry. No science. No music. Darwin could not comprehend how flowers could emerge so suddenly and take over so completely. A year earlier, in 1865, a young American poet — a keen observer of the house of life who made of it a temple of beauty — composed what is essentially a pre-ecological poem about ecology.
20+ Tools to Create Your Own Infographics A picture is worth a thousand words – based on this, infographics would carry hundreds of thousands of words, yet if you let a reader choose between a full-length 1000-word article and an infographic that needs a few scroll-downs, they’d probably prefer absorbing information straight from the infographic. What’s not to like? Colored charts and illustrations deliver connections better than tables and figures and as users spend time looking back and forth the full infographic, they stay on the site longer. While not everyone can make infographics from scratch, there are tools available on the Web that will help you create your very own infographics. Read Also: The Infographic Revolution: Where Do We Go From Here? What About Me? “What About Me?” Vizualize.me Vizualize.me allows you to create an online resume format that is beautiful, relevant and fun, all with just one click. Piktochart easel.ly Visual.ly Infogr.am Many Eyes Venngage iCharts Dipity Timeline JS StatSilk InFoto Free Photo Stats More Tools