Ted-Ed lesson.
Hello! Recently in my grad class we began exploring tech resources and began with Ted-Ed. To be honest, I had heard of this source but had not looked into it thinking it would not be “useful” for mathematics. A lot of technology tools out there are great... but they have little practicality in the mathematics world. Fortunately I took the jump and gave Ted-Ed a try....
One lesson in particular I do in several of my courses involves interpreting Data. The subject can be rather boring, especially when looking at textbooks from the 90′s with irrelevant data. I have changed my lessons to incorporate more up-to-date facts, but find that students are very intrigued by Snapchat posts, facebook friends, and other social media “numbers” such as Tweets on Twitter.
To help improve my lesson, I took a look at the video above, Ted Ed, which also included some assessment tools and critical thinking questions for students... basically making the entire lesson planning rather easy :-)
Lesson:
Objective: The students will be able to analyze data based upon different representations.
-Student will come into class, greeting. Discuss with students that they care allowed to use their phones today! (When prompted). Specifically a social media outlet. Share with students the objectives and importance of data, (how businesses and individuals can take data from social media).
-Students will individually answer the multiple choice questions. This will allow me to know when they are finished. (Assessment).
-Students will watch TED-ED video. Discussion afterwards on types of data. Specifically during the video it mentions we are “Data-Making Machines”. Discuss how that data can be collected and used.
-Students will then take their devices/social media to create comparisons and scatterplots on data.
* Depending on the level students will be creating lines of best fit, finding correlation coefficient, and other variables.
Just a basic idea, but definitely am going to consider TED-ED for the future!
