Hyde
Park, The Long Water, London, UK
Photo
by Jonathan Acuña (2018)
Teachers
Exploring Data
The teacher
as a data scientist
By Prof. Jonathan Acuña-Solano, M. Ed.
School of English
Faculty of Social Sciences
Universidad Latina de Costa Rica
Thursday, July 25, 2019
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Can teachers mine and explore data? A
resounding yes as an answer needs to be uttered. Data Science (DS) is not
exclusively connected to business management decisions; it can be perfectly
manipulated by educators, who -in the search for answers- can make use of
information to decide on various education issues.
Though DS is not meant to be the cup of tea of every education professional,
institutions ought to count with some to help in the visualization and explanation
of behavior among students.
Educators interested in Data Science should
look for a role in data visualization. These teachers need to encompass a set
of traits that can make their mining of data easier:
a) The
ability of manipulate data,
b) The
talent to analyze data,
c) The capacity
to come up with innovative solutions,
d) The
skill to present findings, results, and suggestions,
e) The cleverness
to tell the story behind the data, and
f) The
knack to deal with other stakeholders.
Due to
the importance of these traits, teachers playfully manipulating data to make sense
of their reality also possess curiosity, analytical strength, excitement about
data, and some sort of technical skills to work with data from a database.
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Are educators ready to explore data?
No doubt that there are many teachers who already work with data empirically. And this empiricism is
perfect because it is the basis for helping them develop their competence in
this area. Conclusion: as Professor Murtaza Haider stated (2018), he can train
someone to use algorithms and software to work with data, but curiosity and the
desire to explore data cannot be taught.
References
Haider, M. (2018). Specific Skills to Hire a Data
Scientist. [Video File]. Retrieved from Laureate Edcuation, Inc. at https://dtl.laureate.net/webapps/blackboard/content/listContent.jsp?course_id=_165016_1&content_id=_801204_1&mode=reset
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