Life Discovery - Doing Science biology education conference (LDC) on the theme: Data: Discover, Investigate, Inform.

随着数据信息的指数爆炸和计算能力的技术飞跃，使这些数据广泛可用，生物学经历了一场重大的数据革命。许多报告表明，数据丰富的本科课堂对提高学生对科学概念、科学推理和科学过程的理解有显著的好处。培养数据技能使学生能够以科学家的身份参与，在日益注重数据的职业中取得成功，并成为见多识广的公民和消费者。随着最近对研究数据的整理、归档和传播的努力，以及使数据更容易被教育界获取的新工具的开发，现在可以证明，教师可以成功地将数据和真实的研究带入课堂，并实现他们的学习目标。现在正是加快这一努力并促进关于在课堂上实施数据的意义和所需条件的全国对话的时候。领导这项工作的专业协会处于有利地位，可以扩大和提高对现有资源的认识，并促进其成员和网络之间的合作和机会。会议的召开将提高对本科生物教育主题的重视。美国生态学会、美国植物学学会、进化研究学会和经济植物学学会，合称“生命发现伙伴”，正在组织第四届“生命发现-科学生物教育”会议，主题为：数据：发现、调查、告知。会议将促进发现多种类型的数据，包括环境、地理空间、标本、基因组、视觉、音频和其他数字数据。为了研究数据、策略和方法来支撑学生的体验和探索创新的数据可视化，以揭示地球上不同时间和空间尺度的生命故事。最不发达国家将围绕为决策提供信息所需的数据类型、数量和质量以及在学习的各个阶段将采用的数据技能进行介绍和讨论。该提案将支持社区学院、少数民族服务机构、主要本科院校和高中教师的旅行和参与，以确保他们将被告知并有机会获得这些教学数据资源。

Biology has undergone a major data revolution with the exponential explosion of data information and the technological leaps in computing power that make these data widely available. Numerous reports have indicated that data-enriched undergraduate classrooms have significant benefits for improving students' understanding of science concepts, scientific reasoning, and the scientific process. Developing data skills allows students to participate as scientists, succeed in increasingly data-focused careers, and become well-informed citizens and consumers. With recent efforts to curate, archive and disseminate research data and the development of new tools that make data more accessible to the education community, it is now demonstrable that faculty can successfully bring data and authentic research into the classroom and achieve their learning objectives. The time is right to accelerate this effort and to contribute to the national dialogue on what it means and what it takes to implement data in the classroom. The professional societies leading this effort are well-positioned to expand and enhance awareness of available resources and foster collaborations and opportunities among their members and networks. The conference will elevate attention of the conference theme in undergraduate biology education.The Ecological Society of America, Botanical Society of America, Society for the Study of Evolution and Society for Economic Botany, collectively known as the Life Discovery Partners, are organizing the 4th Life Discovery - Doing Science biology education conference (LDC) on the theme:  Data: Discover, Investigate, Inform. The conference will facilitate discovery of multiple types of data including environmental, geospatial, specimens, genomic, visual, audio, and other numeric data. To investigate data, strategies and approaches to scaffold student experiences and explore innovative data visualizations will be highlighted in order to unfold the stories of life on earth at various temporal and spatial scales. The LDC will offer presentations and discussions around the type, quantity, and quality of data needed to inform decision-making and the data skills to be introduced at various stages of learning. This proposal will support travel and participation of faculty from community colleges, minority serving institutions, primarily undergraduate institutions, and high school teachers to ensure that they will be informed and have access to such data resources for teaching.