{"id":12,"date":"2008-02-04T13:59:57","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T13:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcglaysia.wordpress.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2008-02-04T13:59:57","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T13:59:57","slug":"teaching-data-literacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcglaysia.org\/blog\/learning\/teaching-data-literacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Data Literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A posting I read today on Jeff Utecht\u2019s blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utechtips.com\/\" title=\"Utechtips\" target=\"_blank\">Utechtips<\/a>, got me thinking about data and the enormous amounts of data being collected and created on the web today.\u00a0 His posting was about a new piece of software demoed at the TED talks called Photosynth.\u00a0 This web site and software uses tags and photo meta data to make connections between related pictures.<br \/>\nAt the end of the day I was in a meeting and we were talking about 21st century skills and helping students become digital citizens.\u00a0 It made me think about all this data and how students will need data literacy skills to make sense of it all and also to make the connections that will be needed to make new information.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i1vXngfODSg&amp;rel=1]<\/p>\n<p>Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks?gclid=CNmHhfqfhZICFQ4ZewodEhnE2A\" title=\"TED\" target=\"_blank\">TED Talks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web 2.0 is a buzzword for sure but it has real meaning when you look at the difference between the web of old, with its static html pages, and the new data-driven web.  Its in the data that the web has earned its 2.0 status.  Web 3.0 or the semantic web will be about making new things out of all that data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[28,70,83],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning","category-web-20","tag-data","tag-student","tag-web20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcglaysia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcglaysia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcglaysia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcglaysia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcglaysia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcglaysia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcglaysia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcglaysia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcglaysia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}