Make Meaning with Wolfram Alpha (2012)
Channel: k12online
Date: 2013-12-12

K12 Online Conference 2012 presentation by Jane Krauss, Visioning New Curriculum strand. 

Project based learning can sometimes be recipe-like, leading to predictable, "cookie-cutter" results. I want to help people reimagine PBL and set up better investigations so students truly construct new meaning. It starts with posing a compelling question and then setting kids loose with tools like Wolfram Alpha, the "Computational Knowledge" engine. In this session we look at the kinds of learning activity that lead to knowledge construction (predicting, comparing, making judgements and more) and take a tour of Wolfram Alpha. To wrap things up we'll take a quick peek at ManyEyes and Tableau Public, two tools for creating visualizations or info graphics from data derived from Wolfram Alpha and other sources.

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