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Title: There's data all around you: Improving data literacy in high schools through STEAM based activities
Data literacy has taken a front seat in present day conversations on education reform primarily due to the need for education on disruptive technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Internetof- Things that are rapidly transforming the future of work and life. School systems worldwide have already included data literacy several years ago in their curriculum, still the definition of data and the activities utilized to teach data handling are verily outdated and seek change to reflect the new relationship we are starting to form with data. This paper discusses a workshop conducted for data literacy education in schools. The hands-on activity based approach taken in the workshop seeks to offer a broad definition to data along the lines of real world application in terms of our human sensory perception of audition, vision, and haptics.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1657366
PAR ID:
10166600
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Fablearn Asia 2020
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Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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