🤔 What are surveys? How can they support what we are learning?
I believe that we owe it to our children to prepare them for the world that they will encounter—a world driven by data. Basic data fluency is a requirement not just for most good jobs, but also for navigating life more generally, whether it is in terms of financial literacy, making good choices about our own health, or knowing who and what to believe.
~Steven Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics, October 2, 2019 podcast apperance.
🧐 Let's see surveys in action and get some ideas!
Substitution: Teacher has the students complete a digital survey to learn more about them. This is done in place of a paper survey.
Augmentation: Students create their own surveys to learn more about their peers. They view the results from their peers via the digital survey platform.
Modification: Students write their own data questions to gather data from their peers. Students gather this data via a digital survey. Students review and analyze the peer data from their digital survey utilizing the provided graphs and charts.
Redefinition: Students write and conduct their own data driven survey with peers across multiple classes. Students then analyze the data and utilize digital tools to represent this data in multiple charts and graphs based on what they have learned.
🤓 Let's Give it a Try!
Now it's your turn to create. Choose 1 of the tools below and learn how to use it. Create your own artifact with this tool. It should be something you would use with students or with coworkers. You'll add either your completed artifact or a link to this artifact to the Google Classroom Assignment below.
🤩 Let's Design for Students
If you choose to write a lesson plan, be sure to include:
Standards: What standards are you addressing?
Introduction: How will you hook students in?
Instruction: What are you teaching?
Activity: What will students be doing or creating?
Conclusion: How will you wrap things up?
If you choose to build the lesson materials, be sure to include:
Standards: What standards are you addressing?
Teacher Materials: What will you be showing/teaching the students?
Student Materials: What directions, models, rubrics will students need?
Write a class survey together.
Have students complete a digital survey multiple times before writing their own.
Teach students or allow students to add pictures to their surveys.
Start with 1 or 2 question types. Perhaps short answer for name and/or multiple choice.
Have students create their surveys on paper. Teacher or aide asists students with making their survey digital (if appropriate).
Share results of surveys and discuss "What do you notice?" and "What are you wondering now?"
Provide students simple frames to help them ask questions (i.e. question words)
Regularly utilize the Question Formulation Technique to get students used to asking questions.