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Teaching Data Science to Teenagers
Amelia McNamara Mark HansenUniversity of California, Los Angeles Columbia University
@AmeliaMN @cocteau bit.ly/AmeliaMN www.stat.ucla.edu/~cocteau/
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http://www.mobilizingcs.org/
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Partners
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Principal Investigators
• Rob Gould (UCLA-- Statistics)
• Deborah Estrin (Cornell Tech-- Computer Science)
• Joanna Goode (University of Oregon-- Education)
• Mark Hansen (Columbia University-- Journalism)
• Jane Margolis (UCLA-- Education)
• Thomas Philip (UCLA-- Education)
• Jody Priselac (UCLA-- Education)
• Todd Ullah (LAUSD)
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Mobilize has many facets
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Introduction to Data Science
• High school course
• Year-long
• Piloting in Fall 2014
• Computation-based
• “C” designation, from A-G requirements
• Using R
• Participatory sensing
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What is “Participatory sensing”?
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Teaching Data Science to Teenagers
...and their teachers
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ToolsWhat is a “tool”? What qualities should a tool have? Authentic Low threshold High Ceiling Free/open source
Andi Ioannidou, et al. Computational Thinking Patterns. In American Educational Research Association, April 2011.
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Syntax
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http://github.com/mobilizingcs/MobilizeSimple
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So, the change of software has helped. What is still making this hard?
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bit.ly/LivelyR_demo1
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Thank you