Module 1 Living Narratives part of Oceans in the News:Oceans in the News – Polar Ocean Science, Data, and the Media
This module engages students with a variety of different viewpoints, encouraging them to understand how different people can view the world. Students will work in small groups to analyze a "living ...

Other Materials: Envisioning part of Oceans in the News:Oceans in the News – Polar Ocean Science, Data, and the Media
This section provides additional materials and thoughts for ways to expand the material from the previous modules. One possibility is to bring in various scientists who conduct work in polar climates and allow ...

Welcome to 2025! part of NAGT:Our Resources:In the Trenches:Articles
Welcome to 2025! I hope everyone had a great holiday break. (Hopefully you got a break!) I'm extremely happy to introduce the new format for ITT. ITT's first publication was in 2011 as a way to provide ...

Instructor Materials: Overview of the Oceans in the News Course part of Oceans in the News:Oceans in the News – Polar Ocean Science, Data, and the Media
Course Overview Many educators favor addressing the technical challenges associated with accessing and visualizing empirical observations and data. We contend that with each dataset, there is an implicit story ...

Instructor Stories part of Oceans in the News:Oceans in the News – Polar Ocean Science, Data, and the Media
This course has been taught four times at the University of Delaware, both to honors and non-honors students. It has primarily been taught to non-marine science majors; however, a few marine science students have ...

Oceans in the News part of Oceans in the News
Interpreting scientific data is one of the most challenging skills students face today. Students are overloaded with information from various media sources, and often lack both the technical skills to analyze data and the ability to recognize the overarching story the data support. The Oceans in the News course uses polar science examples to address these technical and narrative challenges. Students will develop proficiency in data visualization and its application to the analysis of news stories about polar regions.

Assessment part of Oceans in the News:Oceans in the News – Polar Ocean Science, Data, and the Media
Students will generate several sets of R code, graphs, and written letters-to-the-editor throughout the course. All of these, along with student in-class responses to discussion questions, can be assessed to check ...

About Oceans in the News part of Oceans in the News:About Oceans in the News
Interpreting scientific data is one of the most challenging skills students face today. Students are overloaded with information from various media sources, and often lack both the technical skills to analyze data ...

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