A summary of a lesson on data exploration and classification with a wicked theme.
Category: Update
Hey Google!
Some ideas for using Google questions and “answers” to inspire in-lecture investigations with students.
For the artists
A summary of my (online) guest lectures for foundation Arts students.
Prep for success
Some tips for alleviating the stress students feel towards tests and exams.
Let’s talk about it
Some tips on how to get conversations flowing in large lectures or online.
An argument for using chocolate in lectures
A short whole class activity that uses the lure of chocolate to introduce hypothesis testing.
Is context king?
Practical points to think about when deciding on contexts to use for teaching statistical concepts, and ideas to help you deliver an engaging and motivating data exploration!
LEGO explorers
Why I chose LEGO as the context for introducing data exploration – and how it went.
ZOOMifying a face-to-face activity
An example of transforming a face-to-face activity to an online synchronous activity.
Near, far, wherever you are, data exploration will go ON!!!
Teaching remotely – take two!
Successfully launching tutorials into cyberspace
We created some awesome online teaching resources during lockdown. How can we use what we learned from that experience to enhance our campus teaching?
Reflecting on the design of a large-scale interactive
Revisiting one of my old interactives and reflecting on its design.
What is unusual?
A summary of an activity I use to teach distributional reasoning.
Tell me something truthfully…
A quick writing activity I use at the start of lectures.
Using drawings of cats* as a source of data
Some ideas for using drawings to teach statistical concepts.
My journey with online teaching
What I learned from taking my lectures online during the lockdown.
Building identity with large student cohorts
Building cohort identity to facilitate an improvement in students’ engagement and motivation.
A cloud of feedback
An approach to gathering and managing student lecture feedback.
Designing experiments en masse
An activity to promote in-class discussion about experiment design.
Bootstrapping with Lego
A lecture to introduce bootstrapping that uses both demonstration and online interactivity.