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Launching September 15th!

Zoom In!  Learning Science with Data — EDC’s new platform for building students’ data literacy in high school science classes — is about to launch on September 15!  The beta version of the site is live now.  We’ve put the final touches on our six in-depth teaching units, on topics from tracking the effects of wolves in Yellowstone to the search for Earth-like exoplanets. And we’re analyzing and writing up the results of our classroom field trials, so we’ll soon know the extent to which Zoom In is helping high school students write cogent essays about their investigations, and cite data as evidence. 
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Zoom In! incorporates a powerful data tool called CODAP (Common Online Data Analysis Platform), developed by The Concord Consortium, that lets users view and manipulate data in multiple formats simultaneously. In each unit students learn to read, interpret and find patterns in data displayed in linked sets of tables, graphs, and maps. As they do so, the Zoom In! platform supports the development of important analytical skills – assessing evidence in relation to claims, considering issues of data quality, and exploring alternative data interpretations – and helps users to articulate their findings in writing.
 
Zoom In’s data-rich lessons help teachers accomplish important instructional shifts, helping students:
  • Focus on the interconnected nature of science as it is practiced in the real world
  • Reach NGSS performance expectations — especially around constructing explanations of phenomena and supporting them with data
  • Develop data literacy skills needed in a data-rich world
  • Write explanatory essays that cite data 
Teachers in our field trials have been excited about building their students' skill in data science:
"I feel in their learning and in their ability to work with real data, the platform that they use to interact with the data, to make the graphs, the scaffolding for the questions, and the digital notes, all on the screen at the same time, made the students very comfortable with something that was initially intimidating."
—Hope Kowalski, High School Science Teacher, Kinnelon, NJ
 
Funded by the National Science Foundation, Zoom In Science is a project of EDC’s Center for Children and Technology and part of ODI's portfolio of projects.  Look for the official launch notice in this space!

Try the beta version at http://zoominscience.edc.org/

Randy Kochevar, Director
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