DFI # 7 Dealing with Data

A full on day today with so many great ideas to try and get my head around. I think my brain might just explode!

My goal before next DFI is to get every student to complete one blog post and give at least 2 ‘positive, helpful, thoughtful’ comment.

Using My Google Maps and google sheets together to populate a map of particular places. It would be interesting to use when looking at current events and where they are occurring around the world. Possibilities are endless I have used google sheets to create graphs before from data but I loved learning how to embed this so that it will automatically update when the data is altered or added to.  Lots of learning opportunities for this but also imagine having a class competition and kids being able to see the results being represented in a graph like this whenever the data is altered.

 I also appreciated the reminder about freezing columns and deleting unnecessary columns and rows.   I do my planning and keep my assessment notes as well as data all on sheets and have never known about the 'text wrap' tool. Way easier than having to press enter when the space runs out!

Break outs! What a fantastic way to motivate students by giving them a break out made in google forms for students to work through as a bit of a challenge. To move on to the next section in the challenge, they have to be able to enter the correct answer.

I started one on Number and added a link in to the slide deck that will allow students to revise a strategy if they have forgotten, however if they know the strategy they can just go ahead and solve the problem. 

If the enter an answer incorrectly it will let them know 'Sorry! Try again' but if they answer correctly, they will be directed to the next section where they can record their clue (a number, letter or word) that they will use at the end of the challenge once all sections are answered correctly to 'BREAK OUT!'