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Nigel Coutts

Visual Literacy - Metalanguage & Learning - 0 views

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shared by Nigel Coutts on 04 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • Nigel Coutts on 04 Oct 15
     
    An increasingly significant aspect of literacy is an awareness of the visual elements that fall beyond the traditional components of written text. Termed 'Visual Literacy' this is the ability to read and create communications that use visual elements. It combines the skills of traditional literacy with knowledge of design, art, graphic arts, media and human perception. It takes literacy further beyond a decoding of text to a decoding of the complete package around the communication.
Rhondda Powling

Art Inspired / FrontPage - 4 views

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shared by Rhondda Powling on 03 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • Rhondda Powling on 03 Oct 14
     
    "A wiki that offers many visual art ideas and resources to inspire and motivate your lessons, artwork and art curriculum."
Rhondda Powling

Visual dictionary - 6 views

www.infovisual.info/

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shared by Rhondda Powling on 04 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Rhondda Powling on 04 Aug 10
     
    Graphics to represent many words, organized by concept. it can aosl be a visual reference source for finding copyright free sharable images. Also available in Spanish and French.
Tony Searl

What is data science? - O'Reilly Radar - 1 views

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shared by Tony Searl on 22 Dec 10 - Cached
  • how to use data effectively -- not just their own data, but all the data that's available and relevant
  • Increased storage capacity demands increased sophistication in the analysis and use of that data
  • Once you've parsed the data, you can start thinking about the quality of your data
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  • It's usually impossible to get "better" data, and you have no alternative but to work with the data at hand
  • The most meaningful definition I've heard: "big data" is when the size of the data itself becomes part of the problem
  • Precision has an allure, but in most data-driven applications outside of finance, that allure is deceptive. Most data analysis is comparative:
  • Storing data is only part of building a data platform, though. Data is only useful if you can do something with it, and enormous datasets present computational problems
  • Hadoop has been instrumental in enabling "agile" data analysis. In software development, "agile practices" are associated with faster product cycles, closer interaction between developers and consumers, and testing
  • Faster computations make it easier to test different assumptions, different datasets, and different algorithms
  • It's easer to consult with clients to figure out whether you're asking the right questions, and it's possible to pursue intriguing possibilities that you'd otherwise have to drop for lack of time.
  • Machine learning is another essential tool for the data scientist.
  • According to Mike Driscoll (@dataspora), statistics is the "grammar of data science." It is crucial to "making data speak coherently."
  • Data science isn't just about the existence of data, or making guesses about what that data might mean; it's about testing hypotheses and making sure that the conclusions you're drawing from the data are valid.
  • The problem with most data analysis algorithms is that they generate a set of numbers. To understand what the numbers mean, the stories they are really telling, you need to generate a graph
  • Visualization is crucial to each stage of the data scientist
  • Visualization is also frequently the first step in analysis
  • Casey Reas' and Ben Fry's Processing is the state of the art, particularly if you need to create animations that show how things change over time
  • Making data tell its story isn't just a matter of presenting results; it involves making connections, then going back to other data sources to verify them.
  • Physicists have a strong mathematical background, computing skills, and come from a discipline in which survival depends on getting the most from the data. They have to think about the big picture, the big problem. When you've just spent a lot of grant money generating data, you can't just throw the data out if it isn't as clean as you'd like. You have to make it tell its story. You need some creativity for when the story the data is telling isn't what you think it's telling.
  • It was an agile, flexible process that built toward its goal incrementally, rather than tackling a huge mountain of data all at once.
  • we're entering the era of products that are built on data.
  • We don't yet know what those products are, but we do know that the winners will be the people, and the companies, that find those products.
  • They can think outside the box to come up with new ways to view the problem, or to work with very broadly defined problems: "here's a lot of data, what can you make from it?"
Jess McCulloch

Teachers on learning curve | The Australian - 0 views

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shared by Jess McCulloch on 07 Apr 08 - Cached
  • As a matter of course, technology is also changing the way teachers teach -- from how they engage their students and manage their classrooms, to how they shape their working day, manage their professional lives -- and indeed how they think about a career in education.
  • this is affecting the way she manages the class.
  • "Firstly, I teach in smaller grabs of time," she says, "but this is a good thing. I personally believe that teaching has long been too auditory. It is important to cater for different perceptual styles -- visual, auditory and kinesthetic (learning by doing) -- especially when teaching younger children."
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  • Before the internet, to be a teacher you had to be everything in one person. Now there is a range of possibilities and many more people can become part of the education process,"
    • Jess McCulloch
      Jess McCulloch on 07 Apr 08
       
      Maybe a good conversation starter for technoLOTE?
  • "This is not to diminish the role of educators to simply and an administrative job," she says. "Teaching is an intellectual skill. It is the art of getting people to expand their minds, have insights, develop values and to grow emotionally. That will not change."
    • Jess McCulloch
      Jess McCulloch on 07 Apr 08
       
      A great definition of teaching - one for those who still think they have to know all the content.
Rhondda Powling

Tagxedo - Creator - 6 views

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shared by Rhondda Powling on 09 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Rhondda Powling on 09 Apr 10
     
    Similar to Wordle, Tagxedo is a new style of word cloud generator
Lisa Ma

The Art Of Storytelling » Experience A Story - 6 views

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shared by Lisa Ma on 26 Apr 11 - Cached
    • Lisa Ma
      Lisa Ma on 26 Apr 11
       
      encourage creative writing for authentic audience encourage response to visual artworks stories submitted are approved before publishing
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