Tangible tools for data science education

Underwood, Lorraine and Finney, Joe and Rubegni, Elisa and Hodges, Steve (2024) Tangible tools for data science education. In: Proceedings of the 19th WiPSCE Conference on Primary and Secondary Computing Education Research :. ACM, New York, pp. 1-2. ISBN 9798400710056

Abstract

Educators face many practical challenges when introducing data science to students. School networks are strictly controlled by outside resources which creates a barrier to installing and managing both software and hardware. Our tools aim to alleviate these practical issues to support educators to teach data science to children in K-12 classes. Our micro:bit accessory the clip:bit allows students to collect their own data outdoors. All the data is gathered in a physical, transparent Classroom Cloudlet for analysis and visualisations. The tools are mobile, transparent and accessible to children and educators making teaching data science achievable.