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ELAlytics: Exploring the intersections of Data Literacy and Literary Literacy in the classroom
Data visualizations are emerging as ways to examine and “see” literary texts in new ways by making salient the countable and quantifiable features of a book, story, or other composition. Taking seriously the potential for literary literacy and data literacy to be complementary and mutually supportive in interpretive work, this project involves cycles of co-design with middle school English language arts teachers to bring text analytics visualizations into their classroom instruction through new tools and resource creation. This project is being implemented in urban middle school classrooms as tools are developed and refined and the new learning interactions that can result from this integration are studied.
Pillar 1: Innovative Use of Technologies in Learning and Teaching
Using text analysis tools and packages available online, this project creates a variety of visualizations of texts that are used as part of the middle school English Language Arts curriculum, structured to support data and ELA learning goals
Pillar 2: Partnerships for Career and Workforce Preparation.
The approach of this project is to recognize literary reading and analysis strategies as complementary and valuable for work with data and to make the analysis of text through computational treatments of it as quantifiable data another tool for students. This will prepare for the shift in how data is used professionally across disciplines.
Pillar 3: Strategies for Equity in STEM Education
By providing more resources for students to engage in interpretation and sense-making, especially when language can be an additional challenge, this project provides pathways and alternatives for participation and analysis for students who may otherwise not be provided those additional meaning-making resources.
Discipline(s)
Data Science
Target Gradespan(s)
Middle school (6-8)
Target Participant(s)
Youth / students
Project Setting(s)
Formal Education
Category
Exploring Theory and Design Principles (ETD)