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Learning about Data, Algorithms, and Algorithmic Justice on TikTok in Personally Meaningful Ways Open
TikTok, a popular short video sharing application, emerged as the dominant social media platform for young people, with a pronounced influence on how young women and people of color interact online. The application has become a global spac…
View article: Learning about Data, Algorithms, and Algorithmic Justice on TikTok in Personally Meaningful Ways
Learning about Data, Algorithms, and Algorithmic Justice on TikTok in Personally Meaningful Ways Open
TikTok, a popular short video sharing application, emerged as the dominant social media platform for young people, with a pronounced influence on how young women and people of color interact online. The application has become a global spac…
Promoting students’ informal inferential reasoning through arts-integrated data literacy education Open
Purpose Arts-integration is a promising approach to building students’ abilities to create and critique arguments with data, also known as informal inferential reasoning (IIR). However, differences in disciplinary practices and routines, a…
Critical Data Storytelling through Photography Open
Understanding why and how to support claims with data is a key challenge in scientific inquiry.We propose that arts-integrated approaches to data literacy have potential to increase engagement in data reasoning and support students in maki…
Data Comics: Using Narratives to Engage Students in Data Reasoning Open
Comics are a familiar art form that has been underexplored as a tool for data-driven storytelling in K12 classrooms.Making data comics provide an opportunity for students to contextualize data within a visual style and narrative structure.…
Tensions and synergies in arts‐integrated data literacy instruction: Reflections on four classroom implementations Open
Data‐art inquiry is an arts‐integrated approach to data literacy learning that reflects the multidisciplinary nature of data literacy not often taught in school contexts. By layering critical reflection over conventional data inquiry proce…
”I happen to be one of 47.8%”: Social-Emotional and Data Reasoning in Middle School Students’ Comics about Friendship Open
Effective data literacy instruction requires that learners move beyond understanding statistics to being able to humanize data through a contextual understanding of argumentation and reasoning in the real-world. In this paper, we explore t…
View article: Data Literacy for Social Justice
Data Literacy for Social Justice Open
The projects in this interactive poster symposium explore ways of engaging learners with social justice issues through the design and study of data literacy interventions. These interventions span classroom to museum contexts, and environm…