1. DATA COLLECTION TASKS
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2. WHERE DOES THE INFO COME FROM?
• Data usually comes from two sources:
o Collecting your own original data
• Surveys, questionnaires, interviews, cell phone polls, etc
• Sensor-based data: heart-rate monitors, motion detectors,
temperature sensors.
o Finding existing data
• Existing databases online
• Searching websites for information and compile it
• Existing books, poems, histories, newspapers, articles, etc
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3. TYPES OF DATA COLLECTION TASKS?
• Surveying each other about our heights, weights, and
gender, looking for trends (math/statistics)
• Collecting quotes about a subject (language arts)
• Taking measurements of three different plants over
the course of a month (science)
• Looking up the parties of presidential election winners
and recording them for each election year (social
studies)
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4. EXAMPLES OF DATA COLLECTION TASKS
o Comparing multiple poems, and
recording their meter/structure
(English)
• Looking for repeated rhythmic patterns
o Data collection during physical
exertion (Health/Physical Education)
• Heart rate monitors or pedometers
o Recording various regular verbs and
their gerund form (Foreign language)
• Looking for patterns in the form change
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5. TOOLS FOR DATA COLLECTION TASKS
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6. TOOLS FOR DATA COLLECTION TASKS
• Sensors &Probes
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Motion detectors
Temperature
Photogates
Soil Moisture
Accelerometer
Light
Sound Pressure
Heartrate and respiration
Digital microscopes
…and many more!
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• Survey tools
o InspireData Survey
o Google Forms
o Survey Monkey
• Instant Responses
o Polleverywhere
o SMS poll (15votes per
poll for free version)
o Clickers
(response systems)

7. ULA DEMONSTRATION – GO MOTION SENSOR
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8. Another means of collecting data to analyze
ULA DEMONSTRATION: GOOGLE FORM
(The quick version)
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9. A TOOL FOR COLLECTING DATA : GOOGLE FORM
• ULA demo: how to create a survey by using Google
Form.
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10. ULA DEMONSTRATION: GOOGLE FORM
• Our Class Prep forms you fill out every week are Google
Forms
• Let’s create a data collection instrument using Google Forms
• You can view data collected (via Google Spreadsheets)
• There are different functions for data analysis in Google
Spreadsheets
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11. This is the format we are going to use today, then we will write about
it and evaluate it, posting it to our teacher website
WHAT IS A “STATION” OR “MODULE?”
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12. FIRST, WHAT IS A “MODULE” OR A “STATION?”
• Self-guided learning experience
o The teacher provides you with the activity, tools, etc.
o Think about “stations” you participated in during K-12
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Independent studies
Distance education
Special education
Instruction that needs to be differentiated
• Different contents
• Different “levels”
• Different schedules/time
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13. WHAT COULD A MODULE (STATION) INCLUDE?
• A station or a module could include:
o Content exploration tools for independent or semiindependent learning (reading, links, webquest, etc)
o Production tools to make an artifact that demonstrates
learning
o Communication tools (sometimes)
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