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

生物学经历了一场重大的数据革命，数据信息呈指数级爆炸，计算能力的技术飞跃使这些数据广泛可用。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着的好处。发展数据技能可以让学生作为科学家参与，在越来越以数据为中心的职业生涯中取得成功，并成为消息灵通的公民和消费者。随着最近努力策划，存档和传播研究数据和开发新的工具，使数据更容易获得教育界，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，实现他们的学习目标。现在是加快这一努力并促进全国对话的时候了，对话的内容是什么以及在课堂上实施数据需要什么。领导这一努力的专业协会完全有能力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。本次会议将提升大学生生物学教育对会议主题的关注。美国生态学会、美国植物学会、进化研究学会和经济植物学会，统称为生命发现合作伙伴，正在组织第四届生命发现-做科学生物学教育会议（LDC），主题是：数据：发现，调查，告知。 会议将促进多种类型数据的发现，包括环境，地理空间，标本，基因组，视觉，音频和其他数字数据。为了调查数据，将突出强调支撑学生体验和探索创新数据可视化的策略和方法，以便在不同的时间和空间尺度上展现地球上生命的故事。最不发达国家将围绕为决策提供信息所需的数据的类型、数量和质量以及将在学习的各个阶段引入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（主要是本科院校）和高中教师的旅行和参与，以确保他们了解情况并获得此类数据资源用于教学。

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.