ICT student textbook/How to make data meaningful

Title of Activity

Objectives

1. Data can be organized for meaning making
2. Identifying data elements to capture for organizing data
3. Identifying method of organizing that will allow you to answer the questions (building a table for data)
4. Understanding the importance of representing data in pictures

What prior skills are assumed

1. Understanding of different types of data
2. Creating folders and saving files
3. Opening a given file with the correct application
4. Familiarity with using a key board and text input (Telugu)

Resources needed

1. Data in the form of bar graphs, pictographs, maps (images)
2. Learn Firefox Access to internet
3. Handout for Ubuntu
4. Handout for LibreOffice Writer
5. Handout for Tux Typing

Digital skills

1. Working with different files and applications
2. Creating and editing a text document
3. Organizing files and folders

Description of activity with detailed steps

Teacher led activity

Your teacher will use these data sets to discuss how data elements can be identified for any set of data Each data element will have a value associated with it and the data can be organized along those values It is also possibly to pictorially represent the data once it is organized

Student activities

Data collection and organzing

Now you will create your own data sets based on things around you. You will work in groups with your friends. In this section we will focus on creating data sets in the class. The following activities can be take up by different sets of students. For all these data sets, make pictographs when possible and also represent in a table form.

1. Data is about us: Data is of us, around us. To see how, collect the following information about your class:
   1. Make a list of the kinds of foods eaten in the class over a week - these should be in some categories like sambar, rice, baingan etc. And tabulate this as pictograph and with numbers. Also list the food groups covered in the diet in each day.
   2. Find out the facorite movie song of all students in the class and tabulate. Think about how you will ask the collection, how you will collect it and how you will organize it.
   3. Find out the favorite subject of the class and favorite teacher in the school
2. Know your neighbourhood: Go around your school or home neighbourhood for a survey. Find out the following: the types of houses, the number of household members, the number of houses with school going students, the number of houses with students in college, the number of houses with cooking gas connection.
3. Profile of the newspaper : Pick 3-4 newspapers from your library. Collect the following data for each newspaper.
   1. Date of the newspaper.
   2. Day
   3. Total number of pages in it.
   4. Price of the newspaper.
   5. Name of the editor.
   6. Number of comic strips/ games/ puzzles/ crossword.
   7. Number of Letters to editor.
   8. Number of advertisements.
4. Organizing our ICT resources: Revisit the data sets created in the school lab computers for the activity What all can a computer do. Organize the resources in terms of features like size of the file, type of the file, application needed to open it and how this file could be used.
5. Studying the flags of the world: #With a collection of flags of various countries, try to organize them based on various parameters like colour, shapes contained, symbols contained and so on. This data can be tabulated for analysis.
6. Analyse kitchen ingredients as acid or base (your teacher will help you with identifying an acid or base)

Portfolio

1. Data collected and tabulated (this can be non digital and can be digitized in subsequent activities)
2. Text document with the data sets collected