Data literacy is an educational opportunity I see as commonly overlooked. The collection and analysis of data generalize to many academic areas and the critical thinking involved in evaluating the data collection methodology in combination with the data is key to understanding so many controversial topics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here is a unique example which might be useful in some classroom situations. Cornell University<\/a> has created a feeder watch program that encourages user participation. Cornell provides round the clock access to some of the feeders they have set up and runs a winter citizen scientist feeder watch data collection program<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n