In my last data collection for this course, I focused on technology in my classroom. For a bit of context: The school I’m working in was the first primary school in Switzerland, which equipped every student with an iPad.
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The inspiration for this week’s data collection came from a chapter on multilingualism I read in ‚The Infrastructure of Accountability: Data use and the transformation of American education’ by Anagnostopoulos et al. (2013). German, French, Italian and Romansh are the four national languages, and multilingualism is close-knit with Switzerland’s history and culture. In the past decades, many more non-national languages became widely spoken, especially due to immigration.
Continue reading “Data visualisation: Languages of my students and data flaws”Data Visualisation: My Access to Personal Devices
For this week’s data visualisation, I tracked how often I unlock one of my devices from Monday to Thursday and if I use face, touch, or passcode identification.
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For the past four days, I focused on my heart rate. This is something my fitness watch does for me, but usually, I don’t take much notice of it. However, from Sunday to Wednesday, I wrote down my average heart rate for each hour of the day.
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Taking notes on my commute offered me more insight than I would have guessed before!
For my visualisation, I decided to focus on my morning and afternoon commute to and from school (my workplace), and therefore I labelled the time in between 10-16 with “my school day “. I used the 24 hour-notation for my time scale because it is common here in Switzerland, especially on train and bus timetables. The scale begins at 6 o’clock and ends at 19 o’clock because I always commuted within these times.
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This week I tried to record data, read more about my first attempt and my thoughts below.
On the weekend I decided to record my readings over the following days. As a child/teenager I loved to read, but as my job and degree took over, I saw reading more as part of the academic side of my life and not so much of my free time. It’s only since the first lockdown that I found more time, or should I say finally decided to take more time, to read more. From the beginning, it made sense, at least to me, to divide my readings into three categories: academic, for pleasure and for school.
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