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Supporting Critical Data Literacy in K-9 Education: Three Principles for Enriching Pupils’ Relationship to Data

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Karl-Emil Kjær Bilstrup,

Magnus Høholt Kaspersen,

Mille Skovhus Lunding,

Marie-Monique Schaper,

Maarten Van Mechelen,

Mariana Aki Tamashiro,

Rachel Charlotte Smith,

Ole Sejer Iversen,

Marianne Graves PetersenAuthors Info & Claims

IDC '22: Proceedings of the 21st Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference

Pages 225 - 236

https://doi.org/10.1145/3501712.3530783

Published: 27 June 2022 Publication History

Abstract

Children grow up in a data economy but grasping how their data are part of this eco-system and how data become valuable to others can be difficult. This work explores how to design tools and activities which support children’s critical data literacy for K-9 education. We bring together two strands of work; First, insights from a co-design process where teachers and researchers designed tools and activities for teaching critical data literacy which they deployed in a lower secondary education classroom. Second, insights from didactic theories from maths and computer science education about working with multiple and rich representations of complex and intangible phenomena. Based on this we contribute three principles for enriching pupils’ relationship to data in order to inform future research into how pupils can be scaffolded in forming richer relationships to the data-driven technologies in their everyday lives in order to retain agency in a data-driven world.

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