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Inside Indiana’s Call to Action Summit on data science, workforce readiness, and the future of learning Across Indiana, educators are reimagining what it means to prepare students for a data-driven world. There is a growing recognition that today’s learners need more than traditional math sequences alone. They need opportunities to reason with data, ask meaningful questions, interpret information, and apply quantitative thinking to real-world problems. From elementary classro

By Tim Erickson, Epistemological Engineering I didn’t expect to learn anything about data science from repainting my porch steps—but that’s exactly what happened.It had been 15 years since my front steps were last painted. They were dirty, you could see bare wood on the treads. After borrowing a friend’s power washer —a sure way to discover just how filthy something has gotten—it was clear I needed to repaint them. I am no home-maintenance expert, so I asked Jan at the local

By Hollylynne Lee, Gemma Mojica and Emily Thrasher from the Hub for Innovation and Research in Statistics and Data Science Education at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at NC State Authors’ Note: In this blog post we use both text and videos to help communicate why and how data investigation processes are a critical aspect of learning data science in K-12. The Data Investigation Processes in Data Science Developing the ability to do data science and make sense