{"id":1162,"date":"2021-06-11T10:37:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T09:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/computingscience\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2021-06-11T10:50:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T09:50:58","slug":"data-nation-learning-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/computingscience\/2021\/06\/11\/data-nation-learning-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"DATA NATION &#8211; LEARNING RESOURCES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/datanation.edina.ac.uk\/\">DataNation<\/a> is a fantastic resource from The University of Edinburgh and the Edina which combines official 2011 census data with authoritative Ordnance Survey maps. You can investigate local socio-ecomic conditions, view, analyse and personalise this data to engender critical thinking. Use DataNation to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Involve students in collecting data about themselves and improve understanding of a data gathering process, its purpose and benefits to society<\/li>\n<li>Foster a positive attitude to numbers and statistics through using real data that is of interest to students<\/li>\n<li>Enhance the process of statistical enquiry across the curriculum<\/li>\n<li>Encourage effective Information and Communication Technology (ICT) teaching and learning<\/li>\n<li>Provide access to large and meaningful real data sets<\/li>\n<li>Make comparisons between different parts of the country and seek to explain<\/li>\n<li>Use your own data, visualise and interpret<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a id=\"ttfmake-1623403797\" class=\"ttfmake-button\" style=\"background-color: #03989e;color: #000000;font-size: 20px;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;border-radius: 100px\" href=\"http:\/\/datanation-learning.edina.ac.uk\/\" data-hover-background-color=\"#037f9e\" data-hover-color=\"#ffffff\">DataNation Learning Resources<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DataNation is a fantastic resource from The University of Edinburgh and the Edina which combines official 2011 census data with authoritative Ordnance Survey maps. You can investigate local socio-ecomic conditions, view, analyse and personalise this data to engender critical thinking. Use DataNation to: Involve students in collecting data about themselves and improve understanding of a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61927,"featured_media":1182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[109,22],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-platformsdata","tag-secondary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/computingscience\/uploads\/sites\/9355\/2021\/06\/11103706\/data-nation.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/computingscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/computingscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/computingscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/computingscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/computingscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/computingscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/computingscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/computingscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/computingscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/computingscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/computingscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}