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Creativity and Data Literacy– Together in a Jam!

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While not all learners will become data scientists, they will all become data users and consumers. Visualizing, analyzing, and making decisions based on data are skills essential to 21st-century living: necessary for both work and personal life. The LTER Schoolyard program from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is once again offering its Data Jam which emphasizes creativity in presenting data. Doing the Data…

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Chlorophyll data published for rosette casts on NES-LTER Transect cruises since 2017

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NES-LTER is pleased to announce our first data publication in collaboration with the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI): Sosik, H.M., T. Rynearson, S. Menden-Deuer, and OOI CGSN Data Team. 2021. Size-fractionated chlorophyll from water column bottle samples collected during NES-LTER Transect cruises, ongoing since 2017. ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/798bda0e9ddfeba20f2266e64cf4dd40 (Accessed YYYY-MM-DD) This data package…

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Scratching and Painting and Animating with Data- That’s Data Jam

Our team of judges have reviewed 26 projects involving 83 students in grades 8-11 from Massachusetts. In our third year of competition, we’re seeing students challenging themselves with more advanced datasets and new creativity in communicating their data stories. In a challenging year of remote teaching and learning, the technology skills of students and teachers…

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2019-20 Data Jam competition sees more students, new talents

In just its second year, the NES-LTER Data Jam saw nearly three times as many student entries and broadening the region of engagement.  Education Outreach specialist, Annette Brickley, commented, “I think we’re reaching new teachers through the Massachusetts Marine Educators (MME) annual meeting each year in May, which is great, but I think our best…

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