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Hunting for witches

October 30, 2020 Emma Lehrke

A summary of a lesson on data exploration and classification with a wicked theme.

Hey Google!

October 23, 2020 Anna Fergusson

Some ideas for using Google questions and “answers” to inspire in-lecture investigations with students.

For the artists

October 16, 2020October 16, 2020 Emma Lehrke

A summary of my (online) guest lectures for foundation Arts students.

Prep for success

October 16, 2020 Rhys C Jones

Some tips for alleviating the stress students feel towards tests and exams.

Let’s talk about it

September 25, 2020 Rhys C Jones

Some tips on how to get conversations flowing in large lectures or online.

An argument for using chocolate in lectures

September 10, 2020 Anna Fergusson

A short whole class activity that uses the lure of chocolate to introduce hypothesis testing.

Is context king?

September 4, 2020September 25, 2020 Rhys C Jones

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

August 28, 2020August 28, 2020 Emma Lehrke

Why I chose LEGO as the context for introducing data exploration – and how it went.

ZOOMifying a face-to-face activity

August 21, 2020 Anna Fergusson

An example of transforming a face-to-face activity to an online synchronous activity.

Near, far, wherever you are, data exploration will go ON!!!

August 14, 2020 Rhys C Jones

Teaching remotely – take two!

Successfully launching tutorials into cyberspace

August 10, 2020August 10, 2020 Emma Lehrke

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

July 31, 2020August 1, 2020 Anna Fergusson

Revisiting one of my old interactives and reflecting on its design.

Unusual

What is unusual?

July 24, 2020 Emma Lehrke

A summary of an activity I use to teach distributional reasoning.

Tell me something truthfully…

July 17, 2020July 17, 2020 Anna Fergusson

A quick writing activity I use at the start of lectures.

Using drawings of cats* as a source of data

July 3, 2020July 3, 2020 Anna Fergusson

Some ideas for using drawings to teach statistical concepts.

My journey with online teaching

June 19, 2020July 2, 2020 Emma Lehrke

What I learned from taking my lectures online during the lockdown.

Building identity with large student cohorts

June 12, 2020July 2, 2020 Rhys C Jones

Building cohort identity to facilitate an improvement in students’ engagement and motivation.

A cloud of feedback

June 5, 2020July 2, 2020 Emma Lehrke

An approach to gathering and managing student lecture feedback.

Designing experiments en masse

May 29, 2020August 9, 2020 Rhys C Jones

An activity to promote in-class discussion about experiment design.

Bootstrapping with Lego

May 22, 2020July 2, 2020 Emma Lehrke

A lecture to introduce bootstrapping that uses both demonstration and online interactivity.

Go big or go home!

This blog is part of an ongoing project to build greater interactivity and engagement within large introductory statistics courses at the tertiary level.
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