Using Data in the Classroom, Workshop 2002

A small workshop for STEM faculty

5:30

Reception

6:30

Dinner and Welcoming Remarks

7:30-8:30

Dessert discussion: What are our educational goals for using data in courses?

8:30-9:30

How are we currently using data in the classroom? Round table discussions of what currently works in different disciplines and settings.

9:30-9:45

Break

9:45-10:45

Round table discussions: How do different disciplines use data? What do we mean by data? What methodologies are common? What are unique?

10:45-11:00

Break

11:00-12:00

Round robin reporting and whole group discussion: What is our collective understanding of what is working within and across the disciplines? Is there a common definition of "data" that underlies our discussion? Are their common methodologies that can form a focus for increasing use of data in courses?

12:00-1:30

Lunch (Language and Dining Center)

1:30-2:30

What kind of data access and manipulation is technologically possible now and in the future? Presentation and discussion.

2:30-3:30

Scenario writing in small teams

3:30-4:30

How can our work with common integrated data sets or tools provide an integrating theme for interdisciplinary science in a particular course? Across a suite of courses? Presentation and discussion.

4:30-5:30

Scenario writing in small teams

6:00-7:30

Dinner (out and about in Northfield)

7:30-9:00

Posters and Demonstrations

8:00

Scenarios due-enter in wiki site

8:30-10:00

How do we evaluate the impact of this type of inquiry-based learning? What are our learning goals? What do we want to know and why? How do we measure it? How should we apply the results?

10:00-10:30

Break

10:30-11:30

Recommendations for developers of data services: What are our priority needs for data discovery, access and manipulation?

11:30-12:30

Development of key ideas for report and next steps.

12:30

Lunch

Afternoon

Informal discussions, and transportation to airport.