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Dec 1, 2024 30 min

Building Critical Thinkers: How Messy Data Creates Analysis

from Strength In Numbers Hosted by Allan Dougan

Situating the curriculum in real life to engage students, giving purpose to learning, teaching that real data is never perfect, the value of not having the right answer as a teacher, and much more. Founder of the Australian Data Science Education Institute, author of Raising Heretics, PhD in Computer Science Education, and passionate educator, Dr Linda McIver joins Allan to discuss best practices to grow students into powerful critical thinkers, challengers of orthodoxy, analysts and problem solvers via asking difficult questions, providing real emotional connections to projects, using real, messy data to teach, and more. Tutero Tutero is a Melbourne-based Australian education company that empowers maths teachers with innovative AI tools to effortlessly create customised lesson plans, assessments, and activities. You can find them at www.tutero.com Key Links: Get hundreds of great resources from the Australian Data Science Education Institute: https://adsei.org/ Get Raising Heretics: Teaching Kids to Save the World from your favourite retailer: https://adsei.org/raising-heretics-how-data-science-education-can-change-the-world/ Get connected with more great resources at the Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers: https://aamt.edu.au/ Podcast produced by Martin Franklin | East Coast Studio

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