Sammendrag
EarlyStatistics aims to enhance the quality of statistics education offered in European schools by facilitating intercultural professional development of teachers using exemplary web-based educational tools and resources. Acknowledging the fact that teachers are at the heart of any educational reform effort, the project will develop and pilot test an innovative online profes-sional development course in statistics education to geographically-dispersed elementary and middle school teachers across Europe. The design of the course will be based on current peda-gogical methodologies utilizing collaboration, statistical investigation, and exploration with online interactive problem-solving activities. Teachers in different countries will have the op-portunity to collaborate and build communities of practice in social constructivist learning envi-ronments. Inclusion of effective visual communication and collaboration environments will constitute important components into the training. This Pedagogical Framework report points out prelimi-nary areas for use of video in statistics education, and will serve as a basis for further discus-sion and developments within the project. It is especially pointed that knowledge about presen-tation techniques adapted for video communication, constitute an important component in train-ing utilizing visual communication and collaboration services in an efficient way. The project outputs and services will be useful not only to teachers, but also to academic experts in statis-tics education, to national and European Education boards, to teacher training institutions, and to designers of online professional development programs. The ultimate beneficiaries will be students, who will eventually benefit from improved curricula and teaching practices that will help them build their statistical reasoning.
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