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Improving Student Work with Multimedia and Rubrics

By judybrophy

Prof. Nancy Ritchie wanted to improve student projects created for her “Baseball Through the Years” quantitative literacy class.  In the class, students adopt a baseball team and work with the team’s statistics. They create a Google site to display their research and the PowerPoint they create for their final presentation.
But Nancy was not happy. The [...]

Why the data source matters

By judybrophy

Teacher: Elizabeth Dolinger
Course:  Many.
This lesson helps students learn to evaluate the usefulness and reliability of information and sources.  It starts with a very funny Colbert report video about an information graphic in USA today:

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Working in teams, students analyze a news report [...]