Daily Bookmarks 04/20/2007
eLearn: The Story-Centered Curriculum
- A proposal to develop curriculum around stories and projects rather than separate subject areas.
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Landmarks for Schools: Raw Data
- Collection of Raw Data sources from the Landmark Project. Each source provides a description of the data, plus many have ideas on how to use it with students.
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Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait Annotated
- Another great example of visualizing data through images. I’m sure the artist is right though; these would be much more impressive in person than is possible online.
– post by christyinsdesign
This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books.
2 Cents Worth » Roller Coaster on Real Data Annotated
- Looking for inspiration on creative ways to visualize data? Check out this animated rollercoaster based on actual data. A great example of how digital literacy is a lot more than just text!
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It’s a video game style roller coaster ride, but the ups and downs of the ride are tied directly to housing prices, adjusted for inflation from the 1800s to 2006.