IASE / ISLP - Media Journalism
| Date | 22 Apr 2025 |
| Time | 20:00 (GMT+02:00) - 21:30 (GMT+02:00) |
| Level of instruction | Intermediate |
| Instructor |
Roxy Peck
Sharon Hessney
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| Registration fee | |
“What’s Going On in This Graph?” is a collaboration between the American Statistical Association and The New York Times Learning Network. Each week during the school year, students ages 11 to 18 and college students are challenged to tease out the story from timely New York Times graphs on diverse topics of interest to them. This weekly feature is online, is free, and includes free links to the associated New York Times articles. Students notice and wonder about the graphs, explain how the graphs relate to them, and write headlines for the graphs. Students share their insights with classmates and online with students from around the world. Since 2017, more than 210 graphs have been featured and there have been more than 70,000 online student responses. More than 70 teachers have moderated the online responses. Accompanying resources designed to improve students’ understanding and critical interpretation of visual displays and statistics are provided.
DATE 22 April 2025; 20:00 UTC (Check your own date/time)
Webinar duration: 90 minutes
Presenter: Roxy Peck and Sharon Hessney - USA
Instructors
About the instructor
Roxy Peck is a professor emerita of statistics at Cal Poly. She was a faculty member of the Statistics Department for thirty years, serving for six years as Chair of the Statistics Department and thirteen years as Associate Dean of the College of Science and Mathematics. Nationally known in the area of statistics education, Roxy was made a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1998 and in 2003 she received the American Statistical Association's Founders Award in recognition of her contributions to K-12 and undergraduate statistics education. In 2009, she received the USCOTS Lifetime Achievement Award in Statistics Education.
About the instructor
Sharon Hessney is the “curator” of graphs, feature writer and moderator for “What’s Going On In This Graph?” (WGOITGraph?). Since 2017, WGOITGraph?, a collaboration of The New York Times Learning Network and the American Statistical Association, encourages students to tease out the story from timely and engaging graphs. In addition, she administers the feature by recruiting, training and assigning more than 70 moderators who have a broad diversity by math teaching, location and expertise. To encourage best practices, she speaks with teachers who use WGOITGraph?, visits classes and presents at conferences, webinars and podcasts. Previously, Sharon was a middle and high school teacher of math and statistics and a statistics coach in Massachusetts. She is a National Board Certified Teacher, a Presidential Award for Excellence in Teacher Mathematics and an Einstein Distinguished Educator Policy Fellow.