Volume 9, Number 4

Supporting Statistical Literacy with ICT-based Teaching Scenario

  Authors

Ourania Rizou¹, Aikaterini Klonari² and Dimitrios Kavroudakis², ¹University of the Aegean, Greece,
²University of the Aegean, Greece

  Abstract

Statistical literacy is gaining recognition as something that people should have in order to function fully in 21st century’s society. On a daily basis an enormous volume of data are available through the Web; making the best of it demands possession of a high level of statistical training. In this paper we present a new technology-augmented teaching scenario, implemented in a way that it may be fully utilized by both teachers and students. Using the features of the web-based platform statistics4school – a free online educational tool for statistical analysis in the Greek language – it paths a teaching method that can be readily facilitated in the classroom. The presented worksheet allows students to have an interdisciplinary approach and be actively involved in the learning process through the exploratory teaching method. In this manner we maintain they will be able to correctly comprehend the goals of the teaching scenario, as they progressively develop their statistical, optical, and digital literacy.

  Keywords

Statistical literacy, Geospatial literacy, ICT literacy, Teaching Scenario.