1. Directorate of Children’s Services D GREGORY 2012 Counting Sheep Data Literacy

2. Directorate of Children’s Services D GREGORY 2012 An example activity from the Data Literacy Workshop

3. Directorate of Children’s Services D GREGORY 2012 Let’s start with a very easy question…

4. Directorate of Children’s Services D GREGORY 2012 “ “ How many sheep are there in this field? 1 10 2 4 3 5 6 8 7 9

5. Directorate of Children’s Services D GREGORY 2012 10 sheep Do you agree?

6. Directorate of Children’s Services D GREGORY 2012 What if one sheep was pregnant?

7. Directorate of Children’s Services D GREGORY 2012 Would there still be 10 sheep in the field?

8. Directorate of Children’s Services D GREGORY 2012 Perhaps there would now be 10 1 / 2 sheep in the field now?

9. Directorate of Children’s Services D GREGORY 2012 What if one sheep was actually a newborn lamb?

10. Directorate of Children’s Services D GREGORY 2012 Would there still be 10 sheep in the field?

11. Directorate of Children’s Services D GREGORY 2012 Perhaps there would only be 9 sheep in the field then? ( and 1 lamb? )

12. Directorate of Children’s Services D GREGORY 2012 Look again at the field of sheep…

13. Directorate of Children’s Services D GREGORY 2012 … there are actually NO sheep here…

14. Directorate of Children’s Services D GREGORY 2012 … as they are all pieces of cauliflower,

15. Directorate of Children’s Services D GREGORY 2012 … pipe cleaners and plasticine !

16. Directorate of Children’s Services D GREGORY 2012 When counting… Know how, what is being counted, is defined

17. Directorate of Children’s Services D GREGORY 2012 When counting… Know what is included and what is not included

18. Directorate of Children’s Services D GREGORY 2012 This is important when analysing educational data…

19. Directorate of Children’s Services D GREGORY 2012 … as there are many indicators…

20. Directorate of Children’s Services D GREGORY 2012 … with definitions that have changed over time.

21. Directorate of Children’s Services D GREGORY 2012 This section of the workshop would now go on to explore in more detail… …how indicators can change over time and… …point out where help and information is available.

22. Directorate of Children’s Services D GREGORY 2012 Data Literacy Workshop Wednesday 55 th Whenever