ASA/NCTM Joint Committee Members Share Favorite Resources
Discover resources for teaching statistics and data science: Against All Odds, Census at School, and InSTEP.
Posts from the ‘Technology’ Category
Dec 9
Nov 13
Embracing AI-Driven Education: ChatGPT as a Learning Tool
In today’s rapidly changing world, the integration of AI-based technologies like ChatGPT into education has sparked an ongoing debate between teachers and students. Many educators worry using AI-driven tools for learning may lead to laziness in students and discourage them from conducting their own research.
Nov 13
Join a K–12 Statistics Teacher Meetup
The free meetups (via Zoom) offer teachers a chance to share resources and discuss K–12 statistics topics, including the AP Statistics exam and statistics reading, assessment, applets, software resources, and lesson plans.
Nov 13
Top 10 Things I Have Learned from ChatGPT
Michael Hansen has taught AP Statistics for 25 years and high-school computer science for about 13 years. This summer, he used ChatGPT to help him write a Python application of about 3,000 lines. Here are his top 10 takeaways from that experience.
Nov 12
K–12 Statistics Teacher Meet-Ups
ASA offers free K–12 teacher meet-ups (via Zoom) to share resources and discuss K–12 statistics topics. Topics have included the AP Statistics exam and statistics reading, assessment, applets, software resources, and lesson plans.
Mar 25
Using RStudio Cloud in the Classroom
Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Shannon Ellis recently presented a virtual workshop for introductory statistics instructors (high school or college) that focused on using RStudio Cloud in the classroom.
Mar 15
STATS4STEM.ORG: A Statistical Learning Platform for Educators and Their Students
A team funded by the National Science Foundation is building STATS4STEM.ORG, a statistics-learning website with cutting-edge data, computing, and statistical learning resources. Project lead Eric Simoneau shows the current functionality of the site and shares the timeline for enhancements.
Sep 15
7 Prime Technology Ideas to Begin the New School Year
As you plan how you will get your students working together and how you will assess their learning, we want to share some of our favorite technology ideas in this month's Technology column.
Feb 25
Technology Insights
In this column, we will discuss and describe educational technology to support K–12+ pedagogy and practice.
Feb 17
Sharing a Birthday: Technology-Supported Investigations in Middle School
Although it is clearly possible for two people to share a birthday, our experiences (and intuition) inform us that it is more likely that two people will have different birthdays. That is to say, the probability of a shared birthday between two people is close to zero. However, the chance of a shared birthday may increase if a larger group of people is considered.
