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Rapid Shifts In Educators’ Perceptions Of Data Literacy Priorities, Kristin Fontichiaro, Melissa P. Johnston

Journal of Media Literacy Education

To meet the challenges of a data-driven society, high school students need new arrays of literacy skills. In the United States, school librarians, who work across disciplines, are well-positioned to help students improve their data practice, but they first need new domain knowledge. This article presents findings from an evaluating survey and session evaluation data from a virtual data literacy conference, which were part of a federally-funded project to develop data literacy skills among high school librarians and educators. Findings indicated a noticeable shift in participant perceptions of the need and urgency for data literacy instruction across content areas and …

Assessing And Fostering College Students’ Algorithm Awareness Across Online Contexts, Jessica E. Brodsky, Dvora Zomberg, Kasey L. Powers, Patricia J. Brooks

Journal of Media Literacy Education

Internet users may fail to recognize how algorithms filter and personalize information. Two studies explored college students’ algorithm awareness across varying contexts. Study 1 examined Facebook users’ awareness of its algorithms (N = 222). Only about half recognized that Facebook does not show all their friends’ posts. These students more often reported making adjustments to News Feed settings than students lacking algorithm awareness. Study 2 compared students’ (N = 244) algorithm awareness for online shopping and search, and the efficacy of video instruction to increase awareness. Students were more algorithm aware for online shopping. Compared to those who …

Data (Il)Literacy Education As A Hidden Curriculum Of The Datafication Of Education, Pekka Mertala

Journal of Media Literacy Education

This position paper uses the concept of “hidden curriculum” as a heuristic device to analyze everyday data-related practices in formal education. Grounded in a careful reading of the theoretical literature, this paper argues that the everyday data-related practices of contemporary education can be approached as functional forms of data literacy education: deeds with unintentional educational consequences for students’ relationships with data and datafication. More precisely, this paper suggests that everyday data-related practices represent data as cognitive authority and naturalize the routines of all-pervading data collection. These routines lead to what is here referred to as “data (il)literacy” – an uncritical, …

Technology Criticism And Data Literacy: The Case For An Augmented Understanding Of Media Literacy, Thomas Knaus

Journal of Media Literacy Education

Reviewing the history of media literacy education might help us to identify how creating media as an approach can contribute to fostering knowledge, understanding technical issues, and to establishing a critical attitude towards technology and data. In a society where digital devices and services are omnipresent and decisions are increasingly based on data, critical analysis must penetrate beyond the “outer shell” of machines – their interfaces – through the technology itself, and the data, and algorithms, which make these devices and services function. Because technology and data constitute the basis of all communication and collaboration, media literate individuals …

Data Literacy And Education: Introduction And The Challenges For Our Field, Leo Van Audenhove, Wendy Van Den Broeck, Ilse Mariën

Journal of Media Literacy Education

Data literacy is a hot topic, which is currently discussed in many different fields from open data initiatives, statistics, computer societies, coding initiatives, and beyond. The resulting literature is inspiring but not always satisfying from the perspective of the media literacy scholarly field. The goals behind data literacy are often instrumental and utilitarian in the function of job-related skills or open data initiatives. We hope that this special issue will contribute to a broader discussion about data literacy. In this introductory essay we provide an overarching introduction, highlighting some of the main themes, questions, issues, and insights addressed in …

Reading Plague Images: Visual Literacy In The History Classroom, Katherina Fostano

Developing Pedagogy Graduate Student Showcase

In 2016 Peter Felten, Director of the Center for Advancement of Teaching and Learning at Elon University, wrote, “Our students live in a highly visual world, where images are fundamental in shaping their understandings of history before they ever enter our classrooms.” This observation prompted me to create a series of exercises that introduce students to general visual literacy skills in the History classroom. These exercises aim to help students use visual sources to make evidence-based interpretations of the past with rigor and efficacy. In this presentation, I focused on images of past plagues since the recent proliferation of plague-related …

Lesson Plan, Government, 12th Grade, Graciela Alonso

Fall Workshop November 2020

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): Govt: 2A, B 3B 13A, B, C, 15A History: 9A-F, I

Lesson objective(s): 1.Analyze different points of view of political parties and interest groups such as the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), on important contemporary issues 2.Understand the impact of the Civil Rights Movement by describing the role of organizations that promoted rights 3.Evaluate the changes in the United States that have resulted from the civil rights movement, including increased participation of minorities in the political process.

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs: graphic organizers, Multisensory approach, class discussion Q & …

Representations Of A Good Citizen: A Genealogy Of Power And Critical Investigation Of Pictographs, 1937-1942, Joselyn Naranjo

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The study traced selected knowledge that influenced pictographs in social studies textbooks in the United States from 1937 through 1942. The qualitative study analyzed the messages in pictographs produced by Rudolf Modley’s business - Pictorial Statistics, Incorporated. The study interpreted the underlying ideological management within pictographs to present a method of analysis for future research on other visual educational material. Foucault’s (1980; 2003; Shiner, 1982) genealogy of power method addressed the different shifts in power and meaning making involved in communicating sociopolitical messages to the reader through pictographs while ideological management and governmentality informed Hsieh & Shannon’s (2005) directed content …

Lesson Plan, Social Studies, Kindergarten, Citlali González

Fall Workshop November 2020

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): TEKS 113.11, 113.12 113.13,113.14, 113.5,113.6

Lesson objective(s): 1.Students will be able to compare and contrast local leaders with those leaders listed on books (ex. Martin Luther King vs. Alonso Perales) 2. Students will be able to make connections among different ethnic background leaders

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs: Teacher will model what the activity will look like. Divide class into groups to assist each other.

Lesson Plan, Social Studies, 2nd Grade, Marisol Salinas

Fall Workshop November 2020

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): 2.4 The student understands how historical figures, patriots, and good citizens helped, shape the community, state, and nation. 2.20 The student uses problem-solving and decision-making skills, working independently and with others, in a variety of settings. The student is expected to: (B) use a decision-making process to identify a situation that requires a decision, gather information, generate options, predict outcomes, act to implement a decision, and reflect on the effectiveness of that decision.

Lesson objective(s): 1. The Learner will (TLW) make connections using problem solving strategies. 2. TLW use prior knowledge to connect to …

Lesson Plan, Economics, 12th Grade, Adrian Tovar

Fall Workshop November 2020

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): Mexican American Studies 8A: describe how Mexican Americans supported and changed government, 8F: discuss the role of various organizations such as GI Forum and LULAC that have participated in the Mexican American struggle for power.

Lesson objective(s): 1. The Learner will (TLW) explain the role and contribution Adela Sloss-Vento to the cause of political participation of women and the Mexican American struggle for a political voice. 2. TLW compare and contrast to one of the following suffragettes: Elizabeth Stanton, Eleanor Roosevelt.

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs: 1. Reading out loud and clarifying …

Lesson Plan, U.S. History, 8th Grade, Juan C. Vega, Juan López

Fall Workshop November 2020

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): 8.23(D) analyze the contributions of people of various racial, ethnic, and religious groups to our national identity. 8.23(E) identify the political, social, and economic contributions of women to American society.

Lesson objective(s): 1.The Learner will (TLW) -analyze the political contributions of women and their significant roles they in promoting in the reform movements and civil rights. 2. TLW compare and contrast the letters to significant political leaders of their time of Mercy Otis Warren and Adela Sloss-Vento.

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs: Students will write a letter (in Spanish and English) to …

Lesson Plan, 11th Grade, Romeo D. Revuelta

Fall Workshop November 2020

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): History 5B,5C Culture 26A

Lesson objective(s): 1. Students will identify the similarities/differences between the NAACP platform and the Harlingen Convention. 2. Student relates movement of people and how push/pull factors drive human migration, including in the area of South Texas. 3.Students can describe the roles of reform leaders such as W.E.B. Dubois and J.T. Canales and their impact on American society.

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs: - Multi sensory approach: Video, music, images, Power point presentation. - Class discussion, Q and A - Illustration

Lesson Plan, Government, 12th Grade, San Juana Granado

Fall Workshop November 2020

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): Govt: 2A, B 3B 13A, B, C, 15A History: 9A-F, I

Lesson objective(s): 1. Analyze different points of view of political parties and interest groups such as the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), on important contemporary issues. 2. Understand the impact of the Civil Rights Movement by describing the role of organizations that promoted rights. 3. Evaluate the changes in the United States that have resulted from the civil rights movement, including increased participation of minorities in the political process.

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs: graphic organizers, Multisensory approach, …

Unidad Didáctica, Historia De Ee.Uu., Octavo, Juan C. Vega, Juan López

Fall Workshop November 2020

Competencias y Aptitudes Esenciales del Estado de Texas (TEKS, por sus siglas en inglés): 8.23 (D) Estudiar las contribuciones de personas de diversos grupos raciales, étnicos, y religiosos a nuestra identidad nacional. 8.23 (D) Identificar las contribuciones políticas, sociales y económicas de las mujeres a la sociedad estadounidense.

Objetivos de la lección: 1. Estudiar las contribuciones políticas de la mujer y su papel en la promoción de los movimientos de reforma y derechos civiles. 2. Comparar y contrastar las cartas de Mercy Otis Warren y Adela Sloss Vento a los dirigentes políticos importantes de la época.

Diferenciación de estrategias para …

Unidad Didáctica, Historia Universal, Sexto, Josie Herrera

Fall Workshop November 2020

Competencias y Aptitudes Esenciales del Estado de Texas (TEKS, por sus siglas en inglés): 6.2 Contribuciones de las culturas. (A) Explicar la relevancia de los individuos o de los colectivos en las sociedades. (B) Describir la influencia de los logros individuales y colectivos en una sociedad.

Objetivos de la lección: 1. Identificar a los dirigentes de los movimientos en favor de los derechos civiles de ascendencia mexicoestadounidense. 2. Reconocer los logros y los obstáculos que experimentaron los dirigentes mexicoestadounidenses para marcar una diferencia en la sociedad.

Diferenciación de estrategias para necesidades específicas de un estudiantado diverso: Siguiendo las pautas …

Unidad Didáctica, Prescolar, Citlali González, Diana Rocha

Fall Workshop November 2020

Competencias y Aptitudes Esenciales del Estado de Texas (TEKS, por sus siglas en inglés): 113.11, 113.12 113.13,113.14, 113.5,113.6

Objetivos de la lección: 1. Los alumnos serán capaces de comparar y contrastar las figuras de los dirigentes locales con personalidades mencionadas en los libros de texto, como por ejemplo Martin Luther King frente a la figura de Alonso Perales. 2. Establecer conexiones entre líderes de antecedentes étnicos distintos

Diferenciación de estrategias para necesidades específicas de un estudiantado diverso: El docente ajustará la configuración de la actividad y dividirá a los alumnos en grupos para que se ayuden entre sí.

Unidad Didáctica, Ciencias Políticas: Gobierno Federal, Duodécimo, Graciela Alonso, San Juana Granado

Fall Workshop November 2020

Competencias y Aptitudes Esenciales del Estado de Texas (TEKS, por sus siglas en inglés): Ciencias Políticas - Gobierno: 2A, B 3B 13A, B, C, 15A Historia: 9A-F, I

Objetivos de la lección: 1. Analizar diferentes puntos de vista de partidos políticos y agrupaciones de representación o ideológicas tales como la Liga de Ciudadanos Latinoamericanos Unidos (LULAC por sus siglas en inglés) respecto a problemáticas contemporáneas importantes. 2. Comprender el impacto del movimiento en favor de los derechos civiles describiendo el papel de las organizaciones que promovieron dichos derechos. 3. Evaluar los cambios que tuvieron lugar en los Estados Unidos como …

Lesson Plan, U.S. Government, 12th Grade, David Quiroz

Fall Workshop November 2020

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): 113.41 c (12) Citizenship. The student understands the rights that are protected and secured by the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. The student is expected to: (A) explain the roles of limited government and the rule of law in the protection of individual rights. (B) identify and define the unalienable rights. c (15) Citizenship. The student understands the importance of the expression of different points of view in a constitutional republic. The student is expected to: (A) analyze different points of view of political parties and interest groups such as the League of …

Lesson Plan, Social Studies, Kindergarten, Diana Rocha

Fall Workshop November 2020

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): TEKS 113.11, 113.12 113.13,113.14, 113.5,113.6

Lesson objective(s): 1.Students will be able to compare and contrast local leaders with those leaders listed on books (ex. Martin Luther King vs. Alonso Perales) 2. Students will be able to make connections among different ethnic background lead.

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs: Teacher will model what the activity will look like. Divide class into groups to assist each other.

Lesson Plan, Social Studies, 2nd Grade, Ruby Martínez

Fall Workshop November 2020

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): 2.4 The student understands how historical figures, patriots, and good citizens helped, shape the community, state, and nation. 2.20 The student uses problem-solving and decision-making skills, working independently and with others, in a variety of settings. The student is expected to: (B) use a decision-making process to identify a situation that requires a decision, gather information, generate options, predict outcomes, act to implement a decision, and reflect on the effectiveness of that decision.

Lesson objective(s): 1. TLW make connections using problem solving strategies. 2. TLW use prior knowledge to connect to the article.

Differentiation …

Unidad Didáctica, Historia De Ee. Uu. Desde 1877, Décimo, Undécimo, David Quiroz

Fall Workshop November 2020

Competencias y Aptitudes Esenciales del Estado de Texas (TEKS, por sus siglas en inglés): (25) Cultura: el alumno comprenderá cómo las personas de diferentes grupos sociales contribuyen a nuestra identidad nacional. Se espera que el estudiantado: (a) Explique las acciones llevadas a cabo para expandir las oportunidades económicas y los derechos políticos de los diferentes grupos raciales, étnicos, de género y religiosos de la sociedad estadounidense. (b) Describa el proceso de asimilación estadounidense utilizado para integrar a los inmigrantes y a los nativos americanos en la cultura nacional. (c) Explique cómo las contribuciones de personas de diversos grupos raciales, étnicos, …

Lesson Plan, Social Studies, 2nd Grade, Erika Faubion

Fall Workshop November 2020

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): 2.4 The student understands how historical figures, patriots, and good citizens helped, shape the community, state, and nation. 2.20 The student uses problem-solving and decision-making skills, working independently and with others, in a variety of settings. The student is expected to: (B) use a decision-making process to identify a situation that requires a decision, gather information, generate options, predict outcomes, act to implement a decision, and reflect on the effectiveness of that decision.

Lesson objective(s): 1. The Learner will (TLW) make connections using problem solving strategies. 2. TLW use prior knowledge to connect to …

Unidad Didáctica, Economía, Duodécimo, Adrian Tovar

Fall Workshop November 2020

Competencias y Aptitudes Esenciales del Estado de Texas (TEKS, por sus siglas en inglés): Estudios Mexicoestadounidenses 8A: Describir cómo los mexicoestadounidenses apoyaron cambios en los gobiernos y los propiciaron. 8F: Debatir el papel de organizaciones varias, tales como las del Foro del Soldado Americano y LULAC, las cuales han participado en la lucha de los mexicoestadounidenses por alcanzar cuotas de poder.

Objetivos de la lección: 1. Explicar el papel y la contribución de Adela Sloss Vento a la causa de la participación política de las mujeres y los esfuerzos mexicoestadounidenses por tener voz propia en la política. 2. Comparar y …

Unidad Didáctica, Ciencias Sociales, Segundo, Erika Faubion, Rebecca Gutiérrez, Ruby Martínez, Marisol Salinas

Fall Workshop November 2020

Competencias y Aptitudes Esenciales del Estado de Texas (TEKS, por sus siglas en inglés): 2.4 Comprender cómo las figuras históricas, los patriotas, y la buena ciudadanía contribuyeron a dar forma a la comunidad, el estado y la nación. 2.20 Usar habilidades de resolución de problemas y de toma de decisiones, trabajar de manera independiente y en grupo, en una variedad de entornos. El alumno debe: (B) usar el proceso de resolución de problemas para identificar una situación que requiera una solución, recopilar información, generar opciones viables, predecir resultados, implementar decisiones, y medir la efectividad de esa decisión.

Objetivos de la …

Lesson Plan, World History, 6th Grade, Josie Herrera

Fall Workshop November 2020

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): 6.2 Contributions of Cultures A) Explain the significance of individuals or groups in societies B) Describe the influence of individual and group achievement in a society

Lesson objective(s): 1. Identify civil rights activists’ leaders of Mexican American heritage. 2. See how Mexican American Leaders endured and overcome discrimination to make a difference in society.

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs: For special education students and 504 students, students are guided through the gallery walk by coteacher and teacher in two groups. GT students and more rigorous questionnaire and do the gallery walk. Regular …

Unidad Didáctica, Undécimo, Romeo D. Revuelta

Fall Workshop November 2020

Competencias y Aptitudes Esenciales del Estado de Texas (TEKS, por sus siglas en inglés): Historia 5B,5C Cultura 26A

Objetivos de la lección: 1. Comparar y contrastar la Asociación Nacional para el Progreso de las Personas de Color (NAACP, por sus siglas en inglés) con la Convención ‘Pro-Raza’ de Harlingen. 2. Relacionar la emigración de las personas con los factores incitadores y disuasorios que la propiciaron, incluyendo el sur de Texas. 3. Comprender y relatar el papel que desempeñaron los dirigentes reformistas, tales como W.E.B. Dubois y J.T. Canales, así como el impacto que supuso en la sociedad estadounidense.

Diferenciación de …

Lesson Plan, Social Studies, 2nd Grade, Rebecca Gutiérrez

Fall Workshop November 2020

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): 2.4 The student understands how historical figures, patriots, and good citizens helped, shape the community, state, and nation. 2.20 The student uses problem-solving and decision-making skills, working independently and with others, in a variety of settings. The student is expected to: (B) use a decision-making process to identify a situation that requires a decision, gather information, generate options, predict outcomes, act to implement a decision, and reflect on the effectiveness of that decision.

Lesson objective(s): 1. The Learner will (TLW) make connections using problem solving strategies. 2. TLW use prior knowledge to connect …

Co-Teaching Botany And History: An Interdisciplinary Model For A More Inclusive Curriculum, Frederica Bowcutt, Tamara Caulkins

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of the Sciences

This essay offers numerous ideas on how to integrate science and history into classroom pedagogy in a way that acknowledges the contributions of women and other groups underrepresented in science by highlighting the cultural and political contexts in which science developed rather than by adding token individuals to a history of science still largely defined by the achievements of a few great men. It details how students in a General Education class co-taught by a botanist and a historian of science at the Evergreen State College not only gained skills in field botany and vegetation analysis but also became more …

Designing Analog Learning Games: Genre Affordances, Limitations And Multi-Game Approaches, Owen Gottlieb, Ian Schreiber

Articles

This chapter explores what the authors discovered about analog games and game design during the many iterative processes that have led to the Lost & Found series, and how they found certain constraints and affordances (that which an artifact assists, promotes or allows) provided by the boardgame genre. Some findings were counter-intuitive. What choices would allow for the modeling of complex systems, such as legal and economic systems? What choices would allow for gameplay within the time of a class-period? What mechanics could promote discussions of tradeoff decisions? If players are expending too much cognition on arithmetic strategizing, could that …