This paper, to be presented at the Interaction Design and Children conference, reports on middle school students’ uses of a novel tool for creating data-based memes, and how it supported their personal and social connections to data. Check it out! Vacca, R., DesPortes, K., Tes, M. Silander, M., Amato, A., Matuk, C., Woods, P. J. … Continue reading What data memes to students
This study from the DLTA project explores how middle school students used photography to reframe representations of their neighborhood, as told through public data. It will be presented at the 2022 Annual meeting of the International Society of the Learning Sciences. Amato, A., Matuk, C., DesPortes, K., Silander, M., Tes, M., Vacca, R., & Woods, … Continue reading Youth using photography to reframe data stories of their neighborhoods
This study from the DLTA project received an honorable mention at CHI 2022. It examined how students used comics to make sense of their own friendship experiences in relation to those of other youth like them. Vacca, R., DesPortes, K., Tes, M., Silander, M., Matuk, C., Amato, A., Woods, P. (2022). “I happen to be … Continue reading Socio-emotional reasoning through data and comics (winner of an CHI 2022 honorable mention!)
This short paper from the StudyCrafter project describes findings from a youth workshop we developed on participatory storytelling. It will be presented at the 2022 Annual meeting of the International Society for the Learning Sciences. Matuk, C., Amato, A., Sui, J., Sutherland, S. & Harteveld, C. (2022). Inform, empathize, inquire: How youth use participatory storytelling … Continue reading Interactive fiction for social inquiry
Image Credit: Data Journalism Handbook, Open Knowledge Foundation (CC BY 2.0) Stories are widely recognized as accessible ways for personally connecting to, and thinking critically about data and its implications. But what exactly is a data story? How can it be integrated into classroom settings, which tend to be constrained to focus narrowly on quantitative … Continue reading Data Storytelling in the Classroom
Portable brain technologies are transforming classroom-based research. What is their potential, and what are their ethical implications? Read about it on Academia.edu, ResearchGate, or at Educational Researcher. Davidesco, I., Matuk, C., Bevilacqua, D., Poeppel, D., & Dikker, S. (2021). Neuroscience Research in the Classroom: Portable Brain Technologies in Education Research. Educational Researcher, 50(9), 649-656. Abstract Cognitive neuroscience … Continue reading Neuroscience research in the classroom
Our DLTA project received two honorable mentions in the “Bite-sized lesson plan” competition, hosted by the Data Science for Everyone (DS4E) Coalition’s Bite-Sized Data Science Lesson Plan Competition. Making DataMemes (led by Co-PI Ralph Vacca) and Data Stories Street Photography (led by PhD student, Anna Amato), are now available on a public Google Drive, alongside many … Continue reading DLTA wins honorable mentions in lesson plan competition
In a chapter co-authored with Kayla DesPortes and Chris Hoadley, we discuss the role of context in the study and design of computer supported collaborative learning environments. The chapter appears in the International Handbook of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. You’ll find a review of the handbook here, and a peek at the figure we used to … Continue reading How context matters in computer-supported collaborative learning
In this short paper from the DLTA project, presented at the conference of the International Society for the Learning Sciences, we describe insights about the potential for integrating the arts into data science education based on our first classroom implementation. Matuk, C., DesPortes, K., Amato, A., Silander, M., Vacca, R., Vasudevan, V. & Woods, P.J. … Continue reading Data literacy through art: A first foray
In this poster from our Data Literacy through the Arts (DLTA) project, presented at the conference for the International Society for the Learning Sciences, we discuss the ways that care and compassion became a priority in our co-design process with our teacher partners as we adjusted during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Matuk, … Continue reading Compassionate co-design
