1st Edition

Situating Data Science Exploring How Relationships to Data Shape Learning

Edited By Michelle Hoda Wilkerson, Joseph L. Polman Copyright 2022
198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

The emerging field of Data Science has had a large impact on science and society. This book explores how one distinguishing feature of Data Science – its focus on data collected from social and environmental contexts within which learners often find themselves deeply embedded – suggests serious implications for learning and education. Drawing from theories of learning and identity... Read more

1. Introduction: Situating Data Science—Exploring How Relationships to Data Shape Learning 
Michelle Hoda Wilkerson and Joseph L. Polman 
2. At Home with Data: Family Engagements with Data Involved in Type 1 Diabetes Management 
Victor R. Lee and Ilana Dubovi 
3. Examining Spontaneous Perspective Taking and Fluid Self-to-Data Relationships in Informal Open-Ended Data Exploration 
Jessica Roberts and Leilah Lyons 
4. Learning at the Intersection of Self and Society: The Family Geobiography as a Context for Data Science Education 
Jennifer Kahn 
5. Authoring Data Stories in a Media Makerspace: Adolescents Developing Critical Data Literacies 
Amy Stornaiuolo 
6. From Data Collectors to Data Producers: Shifting Students’ Relationship to Data, Lisa Hardy 
Colin Dixon and Sherry His 
7. Scripts and Counterscripts in Community-Based Data Science: Participatory Digital Mapping and the Pursuit of a Third Space 
Sarah Van Wart, Kathryn Lanouette and Tapan S. Parikh 
8. Learning to Reason with Data: How Did We Get Here and What Do We Know? 
Andee Rubin 
9. Educating Data Scientists and Data Literate Citizens for a New Generation of Data 
Alyssa Friend Wise 

Biography

Michelle Hoda Wilkerson is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education and Graduate Group in Science and Mathematics Education at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Her research explores how young people learn scientific computing through engaging with and authoring their own simulations, data visualizations, and other computational artifacts.

Joseph L. Polman is Professor of Learning Sciences and Human Development, as well as Associate Dear for Research in the School of Education at University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. He designs and studies project-based learning environments for youth in schools and community programs, with particular focus on civic engagement and identity.