Teaching Data Literacy

Posted by Kenneth Ronkowitz on



Data literacy is just one of the many literacies that have become part of the curriculum, especially in high schools.

MIT's Civic Data Design Lab is collaborating with New York City Public Schools on a data literacy project called City Digits. They have a on a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation "to think
about how to create a mapping tool that could teach youth about a civic
topic while supporting their mathematics education."

The City Digits project is part of the grant which aims to promote civic engagement while teaching data collection and analysis skills. The first module of the project is "Local Lotto" which started last fall and has students interviewing buyers and sellers of lottery tickets to collect "both quantitative and qualitative data. The students are studying sales volume, purchasing habits and community opinions about the lottery.

On the tech side, students use geo-spatial technologies on tablets to collect and analyze the data. They do data analysis and have to present an argument using multimedia based on the data collected.


http://www.citydigits.org


Trackbacks

Trackback specific URI for this entry

Comments

Display comments as Linear | Threaded

No comments

Add Comment

Enclosing asterisks marks text as bold (*word*), underscore are made via _word_.
Standard emoticons like :-) and ;-) are converted to images.
BBCode format allowed
E-Mail addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for E-Mail notifications.
To leave a comment you must approve it via e-mail, which will be sent to your address after submission.

To prevent automated Bots from commentspamming, please enter the string you see in the image below in the appropriate input box. Your comment will only be submitted if the strings match. Please ensure that your browser supports and accepts cookies, or your comment cannot be verified correctly.
CAPTCHA