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!)
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
Our study of how middle school students made use of their peers’ ideas to improve their scientific explanations was nominated for Best Paper at the Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning conference in Lyon, France. Check it out here or here. Matuk, C., *Ma, W., *Sharma, G. & Linn, M.C. (2019). The lifespan and impact of ideas shared … Continue reading The lifespan and impact of ideas shared during science inquiry
We presented a poster at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association in Toronto. It analyzes student projects created in StudyCrafter, and argues for using interactive fiction as a framework for designing robust research studies on human behaviour. Check it out here: Matuk, C., Sutherland, S., Althoff, W., Snodgrass, S. *Partlan, N. … Continue reading How is research like interactive fiction?
In this brownbag talk for the Department of Human Development at Teachers College, Columbia University, I presented a new analysis of students’ idea exchanges through the Idea Manager, and initial findings from RIDDLE’s story-driven game design project to think more broadly on how we support learners’ collaborative inquiry—and how this even looks, between formal and informal … Continue reading Collaborative inquiry across contexts, domains, and activities
At AERA 2018 in New York City this April, I participated in a symposium that brought together researchers from around the world whose work was centered on the Knowledge Integration framework. My own contribution, “This is what I want.” Technology co-design as a mirror on teachers’ science inquiry practices,” reported findings from a co-design session during … Continue reading What teachers want: Using co-design as a mirror
My first time at the Gordon Research Conference on Visualization in Science Education was years ago as a graduate student. This year, I had the honour of being an invited speaker. I spoke about the importance of integrating graphing into inquiry science, and the possibilities this presents for supporting and understanding students’ science learning. It … Continue reading An interdisciplinary gathering on visualization in science education
