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Welcome K-12 Teachers to the Community and Foundry!
On this page we will explore the future of community-based,
data-rich learning application development using the Data Discovery Toolkit
and Foundry in the NSDL. For your students this means tools they can use right
away, and that deliver real data to their desks.
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K-12 Teachers
The next generation of data tools is being built today in the NSDL. These tools will bring live data access and simple data viewers that can help your students achieve new levels of data literacy. Learn how you can get involved!
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College and University Teachers
The NSDL is working to bring research-level data tools to your classroom or lab. Your students can experiment with real data observations or run models without needing to know complicated software. Learn how you can get involved!
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Museum Director or Media Staff
Building interactive data-rich kiosks and give-away software for your museum has never been simpler. With the DDTF technology and your own Macromedia Director® applications. Or you can come to the foundry to find others to help.
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NSDL or ESIP Data Collection Project
Your collection of data resources holds a wealth of educational information. The DDTF is building the user tools that can tap your resources for classroom and other use. Come and see how the foundry can add value to your collection.
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Campus Media and Curricular Development
If you are developing resources for teachers to use to
bring data into their classroom, here you can explore how the DDTF can help
you to add real and real time data to your current Director®/Flash® development
efforts.
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Building Scaffolds to a world of data The Data Discovery Toolkit and Foundry is building the tools that make the applications your students will be using to better understand math and science, and the technologies that scientists use. Our focus is on data. From the data input and output to a simple physics experiment, to the flood of data coming from NASA satellites, our tools make use easy.
Our applications are generally free and down-loadable, and you can use them and copy them for others. Sometimes, when a tool comes on media (e.g. CD) there will be a charge for duplication and shipping. The code that makes the tools is also openly shared. We can build an application for you if you don't see one that fits your needs, or you can learn to use the foundry's tools to build applications yourself using our high-level authoring environments. What do you do next? You can fill in a form with a request for a tool. Or you can review the information on the left to learn more. Or, you can go to directly to our foundry site. Data Literacy at all ages While data visualization in the classroom has been a feature mainly in upper-division undergraduate or graduate education, with Data Discovery tools and proper science background, even middle-school students can begin to learn about data and the phenomena that data describe. From observations of the earth system to models of molecular interactions, data visualization is today the basis for much of how science works. And with the explosion of data resources for natural hazards and urban regions, data literacy is becoming a public right and a civic responisibility. |
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We build tools that are convenient for you to slip into a single
class, and powerful enough for you to base a whole month's activities on their
use. We call this philosophy "user-near" technology. Like the convenience
store on the corner, it's there when you need it, and it has what you normal
want to find.
