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ERIC Number: EJ1228473
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
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Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: EISSN-1528-5804
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Supporting Public-Facing Education for Youth: Spreading (Not Scaling) Ways to Learn Data Science with Mobile and Geospatial Technologies
Taylor, Katie Headrick; Silvis, Deborah; Kalir, Remi; Negron, Anthony; Cramer, Catherine; Bell, Adam; Riesland, Erin
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), v19 n3 2019
A project called Mobile City Science (MCS), a partnership between the University of Washington, New York Hall of Science, the Digital Youth Network, and two high schools, leverages young people's proclivity for on-the-move digital engagement to re-place and mobilize learning through public, community settings that youth identify as being relevant to their daily lives. At its most fundamental level, MCS teaches and engages young people in new forms of data science, especially around collecting and interpreting spatial, real-time, and dynamic data. This digital STEAM curriculum has more ambitious objectives. Ultimately, the research team hopes this work disrupts an absence of youth input in neighborhood and community development processes, using the power of spatial data and visualizations that young people create about their communities as a ticket for entry into ongoing policy and planning conversations. As youth will be the ones making critical decisions about these same communities in due time, it is prudent to apprentice them into valued forms of civic participation. Moreover, as long as youth ideas go unheard, leaders and adult community stakeholders have an incomplete picture -- and are missing potentially transformative solutions -- regarding current issues. This example of a digital STEAM curriculum for youth to engage in data science with mobile technologies provides ideas for teachers to make instruction more public-facing.
Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education. P.O. Box 719, Waynesville, NC 28786. Fax: 828-246-9557; Web site: http://www.citejournal.org/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
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Identifiers - Location: Illinois (Chicago); New York (New York); Washington (Seattle)
Grant or Contract Numbers: 1645102