Situating Data Science

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.

1. Introduction: Situating Data Science—Exploring How Relationships to Data Shape Learning 2. At Home with Data: Family Engagements with Data Involved in Type 1 Diabetes Management 3. Examining Spontaneous Perspective Taking and Fluid Self-to-Data Relationships in Informal Open-Ended Data Exploration 4. Learning at the Intersection of Self and Society: The Family Geobiography as a Context for Data Science Education 5. Authoring Data Stories in a Media Makerspace: Adolescents Developing Critical Data Literacies 6. From Data Collectors to Data Producers: Shifting Students’ Relationship to Data, Lisa Hardy 7. Scripts and Counterscripts in Community-Based Data Science: Participatory Digital Mapping and the Pursuit of a Third Space 8. Learning to Reason with Data: How Did We Get Here and What Do We Know? 9. Educating Data Scientists and Data Literate Citizens for a New Generation of Data