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Thinking with Data: A Cross-Contextual Approach to Data Literacy

Thinking with Data: A Cross-Contextual Approach to Data Literacy. www.rcet.org/twd/index.html. TWD Modules & Materials. Four 2-week, integrated replacement modules For implementation in 7th grade social studies, mathematics, science, and English Language arts classes

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Thinking with Data: A Cross-Contextual Approach to Data Literacy

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  1. Thinking with Data: A Cross-Contextual Approach to Data Literacy www.rcet.org/twd/index.html

  2. TWD Modules & Materials • Four 2-week, integrated replacement modules • For implementation in 7th grade social studies, mathematics, science, and English Language arts classes • Designed to develop students’ deep understanding of data literacy across the curriculum. • The modules will address issues of data representation, common measure, and proportional reasoning using real data in discipline-specific problem-solving contexts • Grounded in a preparation for future learning (PFL) pedagogical approach • An overall data literacy assessment, and “local” assessments

  3. Why Data Literacy? “We use data every day—to choose medications or health practices, to decide on a place to live, or to make judgments about education policy and practice. The newspapers and TV news are full of data about nutrition, side effects of popular drugs, and polls for current elections. Surely there is valuable information here, but how do you judge the reliability of what you read, see, or hear? This is no trivial skill—and we are not preparing students to make these critical and subtle distinctions.” -- Andee Rubin

  4. Data Literacy Standards

  5. preparation telling application communication English Language Arts Mathematics Social Studies Science PFL PFL PFL PFL PFL PFL PFL PFL PFL PFL PFL Preparation for Future Learning:TWD Across the Middle School Curriculum

  6. The Context: World Water Issues "The Earth, with its diverse and abundant life forms, including over six billion humans, is facing a serious water crisis. All the signs suggest that it is getting worse and will continue to do so, unless corrective action is taken. The crisis is one of governance, essentially caused by the ways in which humans have mismanaged water.” --World Water Development Report (United Nations, 2000)

  7. (De Villiers, 2000) Social Studies: Fair Allocation of Water in the Tigris/Euphrates River Basin • Cradle of civilization • Water shared by & critically important to 3 countries – not enough water to meet needs • Ongoing modern conflict around differing notions of water rights – “sovereignty over resources” vs. “historical rights”

  8. Social Studies: Considering Differing Position Statements Turkey’s position Turkey is basing its claims on the sovereignty principle. It is saying that the rivers are transboundary, meaning that it has control over the rivers while they are in Turkey, just like other natural resources such as oil or coal. Suleyman Demirel (President of Turkey) at the 1992 dedication of the Ataturk Dam: “Neither Syria nor Iraq can lay claim to Turkey’s rivers any more than Ankara could claim their oil … The water resources are Turkey’s, the oil resources are theirs. We don’t say we share their oil resources, and they can’t say they share our water resources.”

  9. Social Studies: Considering Differing Position Statements Syria’s position Syria argues they've always used the water from the Euphrates and their right to use it should be no different today or in the future. They say it is an international river, and Turkey should not be able to decide on its own how much water from the Euphrates flows into Syria and Iraq. This is called the historical principle. Syria wants to share the water in the Tigris and Euphrates through a “mathematical formula” with each State shall declaring its demands on the rivers separately.

  10. Social Studies: Considering Differing Position Statements Iraq’s position Iraq also argues the historical principle, that they have been using the water from the Tigris and Euphrates for thousands of years, that they are international rivers, and Turkey should not be able to decide on its own how much water from the Tigris and Euphrates it will let flow into Syria and Iraq. Iraq wants to share the water using a different mathematical formula. Each country will notify a three-country committee of its water demand for each project that is completed, under construction, or planned. The committee will then calculate the demands for water and decide. In addition, Iraq wants Turkey to release more water in the Euphrates river, to be more “equitable and fair.”

  11. SS: UN Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses • GENERAL PRINCIPLES (Article 5): • Watercourse States shall in their respective territories utilize an international watercourse inan equitable and reasonable manner. In particular, an international watercourse shall be used and developed by watercourse States with a view to attaining optimal and sustainable utilization thereof and benefits therefrom, taking into account the interests of the watercourse States concerned, consistent with adequate protection of the watercourse. • 2. Watercourse States shall participate in the use, development and protection of an international watercourse in an equitable and reasonable manner. Such participation includes both the right to utilize the watercourse and the duty to cooperate in the protection and development thereof, as provided in the present Convention.

  12. Social Studies Module Overview

  13. Mathematics: Common Measure, Proportional Reasoning & Mathematical Arguments Who has more? A B C

  14. Mathematics: Common Measure, Proportional Reasoning & Mathematical Arguments Do states that are more rural grow the most corn?

  15. Mathematics Module Overview

  16. Science: The Water CycleImplications & Unintended Consequences

  17. Science: The Water CycleImplications & Unintended Consequences To dam or not to dam?

  18. Science: The Water CycleImplications & Unintended Consequences

  19. Science Module Overview

  20. English Language Arts: Persuasive Argument data data data data Argument

  21. English Language Arts Overview

  22. WE ARE HERE Timeline initial materials development initial assessment development refinement of materials pilot testing in AT&T classroom further refinement of TWD materials data analysis final revisions dissemination 1/07 6/07 9/07 1/08 6/08 9/08 1/09 6/09 9/09 Advisory Board input teacher training & input creation of TPD materials Advisory Board input field testing in 2 Ohio middle schools

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