Season 2, Episode 15: Data Science in Education with Joshua Rosenberg and Ryan Estrellado

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Ryan Estrellado is a special education administrator in San Diego, CA, where he helps school districts build equitable systems for students with disabilities. Ryan’s mission is to help administrators and staff combine professional judgment with practical data analysis to improve the experiences of their students. Ryan is a co-author of the book Data Science in Education Using R and the author of the upcoming book The K–12 Educator’s Data Guidebook (out in late 2021). Ryan is a Strategic Data Project Fellow, a program of the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University.

Joshua M. Rosenberg (PhD, Michigan State University) is an assistant professor of STEM education and faculty fellow at the Center for Enhancing Education in Mathematics and Sciences at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research focuses on how learners think of and with data, particularly in science education settings. Professor Rosenberg tries to understand how practices such as creating, representing, and modeling data create new opportunities for learning how to use data to pose and answer questions about scientific phenomena.

Here are links to the resources mentioned in our conversation with Ryan and Josh about data science in education.

Connect with Ryan on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, GitHub, and at his website https://ryanestrellado.com/

Connect with Josh on Twitter, GitHub, and at his website https://joshuamrosenberg.com/

Book: Data Science in Education Using R by Ryan A. Estrellado, Emily A. Bovee, Jesse Mostipak, Joshua M. Rosenberg, and Isabella C. Velásquez

Sign up for Ryan’s newsletter Practical Data Activities for Educators

Podcast: Listen to Ryan and Josh’s podcast About Practice

RStudio: RStudio is a free environment that makes coding in R much more manageable. They also have amazing resources for beginners.

Book: R for Data Science by Hadley Wickham & Garrett Grolemund

Twitter Hashtag: #RStats is a great hashtag to follow if you want to learn more about R.

Book: Science: A Four Thousand Year History by Patricia Fara

Book: Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein

Podcast: Not So Standard Deviations by Hilary Parker and Roger Peng

Podcast: Visions of Education by Daniel Krutka and Michael Milton

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